Possible Clues:

• Spiced sliced beef
• Smoked deli beef
• One supports old meat supplier for beef
• Highly-seasoned beef
• Cured cut
• Thing offered every time you go home even though you've been a vegetarian for years now
• Accomplished meat producer joins 'Institute for Beef'
• Beef over island being occupied by force
• Deli order on rye
• Smoked and seasoned beef