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Food & Drink Aug 14, 2015

Wagyu: More at stake than craftsmanship for marginalized slaughterhouse workers

by Mike Sunda

When it comes to cuts of meat, there are few sights that raise expectations like the marbling of a prime cut of wagyu beef. Brands like Kobe and Matsuzaka are already household names in Japan, and increasingly consumers and chefs the world over are ...

Food & Drink Aug 7, 2015

Wagyu: Processing pampered cows at Tokyo's last major slaughterhouse

by Rebecca Milner

Wagyu literally translates as "Japanese beef," but that translation doesn't quite do it justice. It's a word that calls to mind images of rural Japanese cows being fed beer and massaged daily, and richly marbled ruby-red steaks, shot through with fine ribbons of glistening ...