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The Meat Business Gregory Bloom
Gregory Bloom shares over 26 years of industry experience working in six USDA inspected meat plants - buying and selling meat, working with chefs and restaurants and teaching COP classes. He is the CEO and owner of U.S. Protein.

Bio for Gregory Bloom

Gregory Bloom, aka “the Beef Pro" is a speaker, consultant, culinary & sales trainer and owns U.S. Protein, a food brokerage and consulting firm. 

During his 25 year career in industry, Bloom has worked in six USDA inspected meat plants and has toured several hundred meat plants, feed lots, ranches, growing houses and farms in the U.S., China, Japan, Mexico and Canada. 

A graduate of the University of Southern California with a degree in East Asian Studies, Bloom lived in Japan for two years and toured Asia.  He entered the meat industry upon graduating from USC by working for a Japanese-owned meat processor. 

When he’s not in a meat plant, Bloom is working with chefs, foodservice and retail accounts or teaching workshops about beef and food production. Several of his beef training videos  can be seen on YouTube.  See www.thebeefpro.com for more information.

Bloom is a farm-raised Colorado native and author of “Lost Lessons from Life on the Farm” endorsed by Dr. Temple Grandin. 

Bloom and his wife Christy have four children and live in Colorado.