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New Trump rules will make meat processing a lot deadlier

The country’s poultry and swine processing plants, already incredibly dangerous workplaces, are poised to get a green light from the Trump administration to vastly speed up the work. In February, the ...
TOPEKA — Tyson Foods has announced that it will permanently close a meat plant in Emporia that employs more than 800 people. The company said its ground beef and value-added marinated protein plant ...
Concrete barricades blocked the entrance to the Cargill beef plant in Ft. Morgan, Colo., on May 20. About 1,700 workers had been locked out by the company after months of contract negotiations ended ...
The USDA-certified plant employs 21 people and has processed more than 1 million pounds of hanging weight since opening.
With students learning meat cutting and processing skills just down the road, there is a direct pipeline of trained staff ...
No one was hurt after a fire at a meat packing plant in northeast Iowa early Wednesday morining.Crews responded to the Agri ...
POSTVILLE, Iowa (KTTC) – Multiple agencies responded to a fire at a meatpacking plant in Postville early Wednesday morning.