The first week of the promotion, we headed west to Lexington to The Barbecue Center. Once you step inside, it feels a bit like an old diner and the menu is quite extensive if everyone in your party doesn’t want …
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NC Pork Council declares this the Summer of ‘Cue
Free T-shirt is one reward for supporting local businesses
RALEIGH – The North Carolina Pork Council is declaring this the “Summer of ′Cue” – as in barbecue – and has launched a social media challenge to encourage support for local …
Summer of ‘Cue kicks off at Southern Smoke BBQ
We launched the Summer of ‘Cue restaurant promotion three weeks ago to a great deal of excitement from our fan base on social media. After all, who wouldn’t welcome an excuse to get out of the house and go explore …
Puzzling and baffling: Obvious falsehoods spread by Duke professor and WRAL
Capitol Broadcasting Co. and WRAL published multiple falsehoods this week about our industry in an editorial critique of this year’s legislative session, relying on inaccurate opinions of a Duke University professor.
WRAL asserted that North Carolina lawmakers have taken action …
Embarrassed to feed people? Not us.
A handful of mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, have in recent days swallowed what a few fringe groups are peddling in their latest attempts to malign the meat industry.
This time, it has to do with exports. …
NC Pork Council substantially increases college scholarship funding for 2020
RALEIGH – The North Carolina Pork Council Board of Directors has unanimously voted to substantially increase scholarship funding for 2020 in an effort to reduce financial impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on students at North Carolina colleges and universities.…
Statement by NC DHHS Sec. Mandy Cohen on meat plants
NC Department of Health and Human Services’ Sec. Mandy Cohen
May 7, 2020 briefing
17:00 – 20:13
“The food processing plants in our state are critical to our keeping up our food supply not only here in North Carolina …
Statement on Executive Order
The North Carolina Pork Council issued the following statement today after President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order intended to keep meat processing plants open:
“This decisive action has saved countless family farms in North Carolina, while ensuring that health
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NC Pork joins forces with barbecue cooks to give back; Smithfield donates a truckload
They weren’t cooking whole hogs and there wasn’t a judge in sight, but in mid-April, cooks from the North Carolina Pork Council’s Whole Hog Barbecue Series showed up to provide close to 5,000 servings of barbecue to Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s…
Don’t worry, your bacon doesn’t come from China
Whether you’re eating bacon in the morning or pork chops at dinner, you can rest assured that your pork products are home grown.
North Carolina is one of the nation’s top pork producers and most of that meat stays right …