meat packing

JBS is closing down its Swift Beef Company facility in Riverside, CA, on February 2, which will eliminate 374 jobs.

The EPA has withdrawn a January 2024 proposed rule that would have reduced the discharge of nutrients and pollutants from meat packing plants and slaughterhouses.

A JBS meat-processing plant in Arizona has been fined for worker-safety violations after an employee died there last year.  Police found a worker unresponsive next to a forklift on November 20th at JBS Tolleson.   A report by the Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health (ADOSH) released Thursday said the worker stepped off his forklift to load a feed hopper when another driver on a trac

Cargill has agreed to pay $32.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accuses the meatpacking giant of conspiring with other companies to artificially raise the price of turkeys.  The deal was filed in the Northern Illinois U.S. Dis...

With few options locally or regionally for many livestock producers, legislation was introduced in Washington D.C. to help expand the available meat processing resources.