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A Wisconsin chief justice faced backlash for blaming a county's coronavirus outbreak on meatpacking employees, not 'regular folks'
Chief Justice Patience Roggensack faced backlash for her comment, with some people calling it "elit…
Lauren Frias
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Nebraska Gov. Ricketts says he 'doesn't expect' undocumented workers in meatpacking plants will be part of state's vaccination plans
Gov. Pete Ricketts said, "You're supposed to be a legal resident of this country to be working in t…
Azmi Haroun
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Ukraine says so many Russians were killed that the Russian army is storing dead soldiers in a meatpacking plant turned morgue
The Ukrainian government says Russians are looking for industrial refrigerators to store bodies aft…
Cheryl Teh
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Over 100 federal meat inspectors have tested positive for COVID-19 — along with at least 5,000 meatpacking workers
In the past 2 months, 22 American meatpacking plants have closed at some point due to coronavirus.
Charlie Wood
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Major meat companies lied about impending shortages to keep workers on site at the height of the pandemic, a House committee says
Meatpackers knew they were hotbeds for coronavirus transmission but lied about shortages to keep wo…
Grace Dean
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Sen. Cory Gardner gave a non-answer when asked about his ties to a Brazilian meatpacking company that was wracked by a COVID-19 outbreak at its plant in Colorado
Insider was the first to report on Cory Gardner's ties to JBS meatpacking. The Republican senator h…
Jake Lahut
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The Meatpacking District Was A Creepy Looking Industrial Wasteland Before It Became Hip
"At the time, I didn't pretend to be a professional photographer but I guess I had the intuition of…
Madeline Stone
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Workers and shipments dispersed from one Tyson meatpacking plant to 48 states. Mapping their phone data shows how outbreaks at meatpacking plants could spread the coronavirus across the US.
The data shows that the COVID-19 outbreaks currently threatening meat supply chains in the US could…
Aaron Holmes
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US consumers face having to pay a lot more for beef as restaurants reopen and exporting increases
Members of Congress are calling for an investigation into the meatpacking industry as beef prices s…
Kevin Shalvey
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Almost 12,000 meatpacking and food plant workers have reportedly contracted COVID-19. At least 48 have died.
The infections and deaths are spread across roughly two farms and 189 meat and processed food facto…
Isaac Scher
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Experts say meat processing plants are the next coronavirus hotspots in America, as Trump orders slaughterhouses to stay open
A new wave of coronavirus hotspots is centered around meatpacking plants, creating a major problem …
Kate Taylor
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Cattle markets have been upended, and big meat producers are making 20 times normal margins as beef prices soar
Grocers, smaller ranchers, and some members of Congress are alleging that the four biggest meatpack…
Ethan Wu
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Meatpacker JBS will provide COVID-19 vaccines to 8,500 workers in eight states
"We have been focused on doing everything we can to prioritize our essential workforce in state vac…
Fatma Khaled
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Trump plans on forcing meat plants to stay open with new executive order under the Defense Production Act, despite severe coronavirus outbreaks
The meatpacking industry has been hit with several severe COVID outbreaks across the country, but T…
Jake Lahut
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87% of the thousands of meatpacking workers diagnosed with COVID-19 are Hispanic, Black, or Asian
87% of COVID-19 cases in the meatpacking industry occurred among workers who are racial and ethnic …
Kate Taylor
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Nebraska health officials stop reporting COVID-19 confirmations at meatpacking plants as case counts continue to rise
Gov. Pete Ricketts announced that state health officials would no longer share numbers of infected …
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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GOP Sen. Rand Paul said there were 'silver linings' to coronavirus outbreaks at meat-packing plants — and argued recovered employees could return to work on unproven immunity theory
"The silver lining to so many infections in the meat-processing industry is that a large portion of…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Virus hotspot fears close Netherlands meat plant
"The test results show that there is a risk that the company can become a hotspot to spread the cor…
PTI
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A Tesla Cybertruck was spotted on New York's streets ahead of Elon Musk's 'SNL' hosting gig
An image posted to Twitter showed the Cybertruck in New York's Meatpacking District. Musk responded…
Zahra Tayeb
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Up to one-fifth of US beef and pork capacity may be shut down after the ransomware attack on JBS, the world's largest meat processing company
A cyberattack on JBS has forced a shutdown of operations in the US, halting production and cancelli…