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Small businesses turned an Chicago old meatpacking plant into a living experiment in sustainable food, and they are thriving
The Plant belonged to one of Chicago's dirtiest industries. Now it's home to a beekeeper, a coffee …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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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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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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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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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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Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner received $24,000 in PAC donations from a meatpacking corporation. He's largely remained quiet about the company's record-setting coronavirus outbreak.
JBS' majority owners from Brazil are also under DOJ and SEC investigation, according to documents o…
Jake Lahut
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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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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…
Dominick Reuter
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Video shows Trump asking if someone is a 'good Jewish character' as he talks about his low popularity with American Jews — a group he recently told to 'get their act together'
Documentary footage obtained by The New York Times shows Donald Trump discussing his popularity wit…
Lloyd Lee
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Why 1 million pigs could be euthanized due to COVID-19-related supply chain issues
COVID-19 outbreaks closed meat-processing plants across the US. Farmers were forced to euthanize he…
Abby Narishkin,Steve Cameron
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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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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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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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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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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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JBS says meatpacking operations will be back to normal Wednesday after a ransomware attack over the weekend
The Brazil-based company was forced to shut down operations in the US and Canada after hackers atta…
Dominick Reuter
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Meatpackers cautiously reopen plants amid coronavirus fears
The United Food and Commercial Workers union, which represents roughly 80 per cent of beef and pork…
PTI
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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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Republican Sen. Rick Scott's rogue plan to 'rescue' America has become a fundraising 'godsend' for Democrats as they roast the GOP about his plan to raise taxes
Democrats are especially seizing on Sen. Rick Scott's proposal to raise taxes, a plan they say woul…