Oct 29, 202643 min
Neil interviews brothers Javier and David Gonzales of El Rey Chorizo, named after their father “Rey” (Reyes), who brought a chorizo recipe from Monterrey, Mexico to West Texas in 1970 and sold it from a home-based...
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MEAT People
Hosted by meatpeople · business · EN
About this Podcast:
MEAT People is the official podcast of SMA (Southwest Meat Association)— a twice-monthly audio and video series designed to connect, celebrate, and inform SMA members and industry stakeholders. Hosted primarily by SMA Member, Neil Dudley with Greener Pastures Chicken, with rotating co-hosts and guests. MEAT People will showcase stories from across the meat processing and packing industry, highlight SMA’s resources and events, provide updates, and foster networking within this unique and collaborative industry community. The tone will be welcoming, conversational, and informative — like catching up with family at a reunion (except with more brisket).
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Contact path
Public web form
Booking probability
31%
Guest openness
Selective
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What is MEAT People about?
MEAT People is the official podcast of SMA (Southwest Meat Association), a twice-monthly audio and video series designed to connect, celebrate, and inform SMA members and industry stakeholders. Hosted primarily by SMA Member, Neil Dudley with Greener Pastures Chicken, with rotating co-hosts and guests.
What has MEAT People covered recently?
Recent episodes include "El Rey Chorizo: A Family Recipe, No Fillers & Building a USDA Plant with SMA Support" (29 October 2026, 43 minutes), "Meat Industry News: Red Meat Inspection Exemption Proposal, Imported Meat Oversight & Major Texas USDA Investments" (19 October 2026, 14 minutes), and "Will Boyd on SMA Scholarships, StartKleen & Finding a Career in Sanitation" (15 October 2026, 25 minutes).
How often does MEAT People publish?
MEAT People publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 28 minutes across 41 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on MEAT People?
Booking probability for MEAT People is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. MEAT People requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. MEAT People's contact route on record: public web form.
Who should pitch MEAT People?
The strongest fits for MEAT People are Meat Processing. MEAT People has a business audience.
About the host
MEAT People is a business podcast with 41 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Oct 19, 202614 minHosts Lacy Bates and Brittany Moore review three key meat-industry updates: a proposed on-farm processing exemption, USDA oversight of imported meat, and USDA-funded projects in Texas. They discuss the Red Meat...
- Oct 15, 202625 min
At the SMA Dove Hunt & Fishing Tournament hosted by StartKleen Neil interviews Will Boyd, a StartKleen employee, about his path into the meat industry and sanitation. Boyd shares his background in 4-H/FFA, livestock and...
Episode #39
Meat Industry News: FSIS Expands RTE Listeria Sampling, PHIS NR/MOI Updates & Farm Bill 2.0 Status
Oct 5, 202613 minBrittany Moore and Lacey Bates review key meat industry updates, including FSIS’s expanded Listeria environmental sampling in ready-to-eat (RTE) establishments producing post-lethality exposed products. After a pilot in...
Episode #38
Jason Beyer and D.L. Funderburgh on Building a Plant, Surviving Cycles, and Why SMA Matters
Oct 1, 202639 minNeil interviews ABF Packings founders Jason Beyer and D.L. Funderburgh about how the Southwest Meat Association (SMA) helped them start ABF in the mid-1990s, learn processing, find markets, and later survive major...
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Episode #37
Meat Industry News: FSIS Fee Relief; USDA’s $50M Program; Farm Bill & Mexico Cattle Updates
Sep 21, 202614 minBrittany Moore and Lacey Bates introduce episode 2 of Meat Industry News, a biweekly 10–15 minute segment of the Meat People podcast, and cover four key updates. FSIS extended temporary overtime and holiday inspection...
- Sep 17, 202635 min
Neil talks with Jason Hinds of Marcus Food Company (part of the SMA family) about his experience with the Southwest Meat Association, describing how he first attended a midyear meeting, was initially singled out for...
- Sep 8, 202618 min
The first installment of Meat Industry News reviews key U.S. policy and market developments. It discusses President Trump’s statement about expanding farmers’ and ranchers’ ability to process their own food, emphasizing...
- Sep 3, 202645 min
Neil interviews Colby DeFriese, plant manager at Smokey Denmark Sausage in Austin, Texas, after his business card was drawn at the convention. DeFriese discusses the space and capacity limits of the early-’70s East...
- Jul 9, 202635 minS0
<p>Neil interviews Eddie Behrends, who grew up in Fredericksburg, Texas and now lives on his wife’s fifth-generation ranch in New Mexico while raising three children involved in FFA and showing cattle. Behrends...
- Jun 25, 202640 minS0
<p>Neil interviews Brian Sapp about his career and the Fatback Pig Project. Sapp explains Fatback began in 2011 by converting an underused 1996 emu plant in Eva, Alabama into a hog slaughter and fabrication facility...
- Jun 25, 202640 min
Neil interviews Brian Sapp about his career and the Fatback Pig Project. Sapp explains Fatback began in 2011 by converting an underused 1996 emu plant in Eva, Alabama into a hog slaughter and fabrication facility...
- Jun 11, 202633 minS0
<p>Neil interviews Sara Scott at the MEAT Forum. Sara shares her background growing up on a Central Valley, California cow-calf and stocker operation, studying ag business and marketing at Oklahoma State, and building a...
- May 28, 202628 minS0
<p>The guest is Pat Nicholson, who recounts moving to Mertzon, Texas at age 10 and growing up as a third-generation butcher as his father left corporate grocery to buy a locker plant in 1974, later building Nicholson’s...
- May 13, 202622 minS0
<p>The guest is Deidrea Mabry, COO of the American Meat Science Association (AMSA), about her path from 4-H and FFA to Texas Tech, meat judging, and ultimately joining AMSA remotely after moving to Wyoming. Mabry...
- Apr 29, 202614 minS0
<p>Recorded at the Southwest Meat Association (SMA) meat judging contest with support from Forum Meat and Columbia Packing, Neil interviews Bo Garcia, a University of Nebraska–Lincoln extension assistant professor who...
- Apr 16, 202614 minS0
<p>Neil interviews Grace Bryson, a Southwest Meat Association (SMA) scholarship recipient and first-year master’s student in meat science at Oklahoma State under Dr. Gretchen Macy. Grace shares that her first SMA...
- Apr 2, 202638 minS0
<p>Recorded in Fort Worth during the Cowtown/Southwest meat judging contest, Neil interviews Dr. Mark Miller of Texas Tech about meat judging’s role in recruiting and developing talent for the meat industry and the...
- Mar 19, 202614 minS0
<p>Neil interviews Megan Sorenson, coach of the University of Arizona meat judging team, discussing how the program was started and what it takes to build it. Sorenson, a Texas native who judged for Angelo State in...
- Mar 5, 202638 minS0
<p>Neil interviews Dr. Loni Lucherk about how the Southwest Meat Association (SMA) supported her and her students through significant scholarship funding, convention experiences, and an industry “family” atmosphere. She...
Recent guests
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Dr. Will Boyd
Democratic candidate for Governor for the State of Alabama, Renewal Roofing
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Mark Miller
retired Deputy Chief of the Chemopreventive Agent Development Research Group in the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute, Monash University's Center for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies
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David Cone
Cy Young Award winner, five-time World Series champion, perfect game pitcher, Simpson University Redhawks
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Jason Hinds
Marcus Food Company
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