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Informational Videos

Short educational videos about understanding real meat and the labels on it. Each one is under a minute.

What Is Real Meat?

What counts as real animal meat, and how it differs from plant-based and cell-cultivated products.

How to Read Meat Labels

How to make sense of the words, grades and certifications you see on meat packages.

Natural, Grass-Fed or Organic?

What each of these common label terms means under USDA rules, and how they differ.

USDA Beef Grades Explained

Prime, Choice and Select: what the grades measure, and how grading differs from inspection.

Kosher and Halal Labels

What kosher and halal claims mean on meat, who certifies them, and where USDA fits in.

Spotting Plant-Based & Cell-Cultivated

How to tell plant-based and cell-cultivated products apart from real meat by reading the label.

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Sources

Facts in the label videos were checked against these official and university sources.

Music: "Still Pickin" by Kevin MacLeod (FreePD.com, public domain / CC0)

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