*Computers will continue to play an important role in slicers, but old-fashioned issues will also have their say* As the number and variety of sliced processed meat products increases at a

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*What's needed? Start with better tools for risk management and income protection-not another study into livestock concentration.* by Greg Page and Mike Mullins Greg Page is preside

*Today's fast-food marketers are making a run for the order by piling on-not taking off-the fat and the calories* I am a man on a mission. I'm traveling the fast lane of the fast-f