IconoclasT wrote:
] This just does not sound even 1% appetizing.
]
] ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AP) -- As a five-decade livestock
] producer, Jim Farmer wants his son and two daughters to follow
] in his footsteps.
]
] He hopes ready-to-eat beef -- in a can -- is the ticket.
]
] Farmer has joined resources with about three dozen other beef
] producers, including his son and son-in-law, in creating a
] co-op that aims to turn 1,000 cattle a year into canned beef.
] Eventually, the co-op hopes to handle as much as 10 times
] that.
]
] The specially built plant in Montgomery City, about 70 miles
] west of St. Louis, has begun production. Canned beef has hit
] the shelves in some Missouri stores, mostly in tiny towns.
] While it's too early to say what the demand is, farmers like
] Farmer are thinking big.

Didn't someone do this already? ummm potted meat? blech :-(

RE: Beef in a can ?