Tyson Foods’ decision to shutter four poultry processing plants yet this year and into early 2024, combined with Smithfield Foods closing 35 pig farms, are strong signals consolidation is ...

In the United States, federal regulations require that pigs be stunned prior to slaughter by one of four methods: electricity, chemicals (gas), captive bolt device, or gunshot. The smallest slaughter ...

When floors aren’t given high priority before, during and after installation, problems can arise. The floors inside meat and poultry plants may not always be something that gets a lot of attention, ...

The union representing workers at Hormel Foods and the JBS pork plant in Minnesota said the studies “reaffirm what we have long known — that poultry and swine slaughter poses serious risk to ...

Every hour, some 1,000,000 chickens, 14,000 pigs, and 4,000 cows are slaughtered for human ... livestock killed each year at approximately 800 federally inspected slaughter plants, and to a much ...

“We are thankful that the court has recognized the many harms that result from deregulating pig slaughter, and that we can move on ... ruled that the USDA acted unlawfully when it eliminated plant ...