Cargill Meat Solutions Beardstown, Illinois. In 2001, Excel purchased Emmpak Foods, a maker of cooked meats, deli meats, frozen hamburger patties and case-ready ground beef. In 2004, the division's name was changed from Excel to Cargill Meat Solutions. In 2005, Cargill brought back the Excel name as a brand for the division's "everyday" meat product line. In July 2015, Cargill announced it was selling its U.S. pork processing business to JBS USA for $1.45 billion. In October 2007, Cargill recalled nearly 845,000 pounds of ground beef after an outbreak of occurred in North Carolina. In October 2002, the Emmpak meat packing plant recalled
Horse meat Japan include horse as one of the ingredients. Aside raising local draft horses for meat, Japan imports living horses (from Canada) and meat from several countries - five largest are Canada, Mexico, Italy, Argentina and Brazil. In Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, horse meat is a large part of the diet, due mainly to the nomadic roots of the population. Some of the dishes include sausages called "kazy" and "chuchuk" or "shuzhyk" made from the meat using the guts as the sausage skin, "zhaya" made from hip meat which is smoked and boiled, "jal (or zhal)" made from neck fat which is