Ice crystal formation in vacuum packed chilled meat can be reduced or avoided by: (1) raising the average storage temperature above −1.5 °C, which could lead to shorter shelf-life and would run contrary to the current drive by the meat industry to extend the chilled storage life of meat even further by lowering the storage temperature to (e.g.−1.7 °C); (2) by segregating high value meat cuts on the basis of pH to determine an appropriate shipping storage regime for the cuts; or (3) ideally to develop better packaging technologies, which would allow for a similar or longer storage life at a temperature higher than −1.5 °C or farming practices that would eliminate high pH meat completely.