In 1906, Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, about conditions in industrial meat packing plants, was published. It was a ...

You've probably seen packages of ground beef at the grocery store encased in bloated plastic packaging. Maybe you purchased a nice steak or pack of chicken thighs, and when it came time to cook them, ...

Empire Packing has processed and packages meat products in Memphis since 1987 and was purchased by JBS in 2020.

The company plans to lay off at least 2,000 workers as it shutters a Pennsylvania beef processing facility and makes changes ...

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If you’ve ever eyed that strange material lingering under your store-bought meats, wondering about its purpose, you’re not alone. Though just about every kind of packaged poultry or meat contains one ...

More than 100 children as young as 13 years old cleaned dangerous meat processing equipment using hazardous chemicals for a sanitation company contracted by major meat and poultry producers, the U.S.

Nearly half the people processing meat in the United States were born in another country, and the industry struggles consistently to find enough labor. The price of beef is at all-time highs, but a ...

A recent bill authored by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Cal.) seeks to address the enormous power gap in the meat sector and make processing plants safer for workers. The bill has ...

STAPLES, Minn. — Parker Witulski grew up in agriculture in southeast Nebraska and wanted to find a way to stay in agriculture in his career path. When he turned 16, he landed a job at a local meat ...

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