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When cattle go to slaughter, America's factory-scale processors make a buck off more than ground beef and steak.They squeeze more profit from the…
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Meatpacking plants are starting to reopen after President Trump signed an executive order intended to prevent shortages. Now, some county health...
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As meatpacking plants across the country have temporarily closed due to COVID-19 outbreaks, consumers might be seeing less meat on the shelves at the…
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Dozens of congressional Democrats are opposing a recently proposed federal rule that would change hog-slaughterhouse inspections and the number of hogs...
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Slaughterhouses and meat packing plants throughout the country employ a lot of people. About a quarter of a million workers in the U.S. stun, kill, and…
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Food companies the world over are paying close attention to the groundswell of support for food transparency, the "know where your food comes from"…
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Jennifer Brdar’s dream job was to be a meat inspector for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, watching out for unwary consumers and making sure the meat…
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The Food and Drug Administration wants to phase out antibiotics in meat.Regulators released a broad plan Wednesday, Dec. 11, designed to prevent meat…
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Immigrants have always been the backbone of America’s meat packing plants, offering upward mobility for its newcomers.But the frontier for these large…