When selecting a meat to cook with, the details of butchering understandably take priority. After all, you'll want to avoid buying the toughest cut of steak, and instead focus on tender, flavorful ...

Wagyu beef—you know, the transcendently tender, fatty, umami-rich steak—has become as synonymous with luxury as caviar or black truffles. But no matter how many Michelin-starred menus this delicacy ...

Japan has announced its first cow with BSE, the first native-born case reported outside Europe. It probably results from the importation of contaminated British feed exports in 1990 and 1991. It is ...

Cowboy Adam Waters hand-feeds a cow at Spring Creek Ranch in Greenwood County. Koch Industries is beginning to market a Japanese breed of cattle called Akaushi, considered by some to be superior to ...

The most-expensive meat in the world is getting a little cheaper to produce. Japanese farmers who raise Wagyu cattle for 7-ounce steaks that can fetch $250 at the poshest restaurants have been ...

TOKYO — Japan reacted with fear and disbelief Tuesday to reports that the nation had discovered its first suspected case of “mad cow” disease. Reluctant to take any chances, Singapore, Taiwan, South ...

TOKYO — With a second case of “mad cow” disease confirmed in Japan, the government said Thursday it will slaughter and incinerate 5,100 cows that may have been fed ground animal parts. The Agriculture ...

TOKYO, Nov. 21 -- Japanese officials announced today that a second cow was infected with "mad cow" disease, the brain-wasting illness that has devastated herds in Europe but had not been detected in ...

“WAGYU IS NOT just meat. It’s all things that Japan is famous for: tradition and quality and conviction.” That is how a Western chef describes Japan’s fatty marbled beef. But to the government, wagyu ...