United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) sent a notice of slaughter suspension to Big Sky Processing LLC in Moore, ...

The plant has 3,600 workers. Slaughter capacity was already a concern heading into this week as packers bought relatively few cattle on the cash market last week. Analysts say most packer needs ...

Kicked, beaten, exposed to extreme temperatures and weather—all too often, animals in slaughter plants are severely mistreated before ... have rarely been brought for abuse of livestock (e.g., cattle, ...

JBS SA , the world's largest meatpacker, has reduced cattle purchases from ranches ... meatpacker Marfrig has agreed to sell 16 slaughtering plants to rival Minerva for 7.5 billion reais ($1. ...