Agribusiness
Tracking Covid-19’s impact on meatpacking workers and industry
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We're tracking closures, cases of Covid-19 among workers and employee deaths in the meatpacking industry. Search our database for impact in your area.
Reporter’s Diary: Some meatpacking workers are staying home over virus fears
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Fear over Covid-19 has led some meatpacking workers to stay home as the coronavirus continues to spread.
Opinion
Opinion: Is DOJ throwing Big Poultry on the rotisserie?
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About two years ago Maplevale Farms, Inc filed a civil lawsuit against the nation's largest chicken processors – Tyson Foods, Pilgrim's Pride, Perdue Farms, Koch Foods and Sanderson Farms are all plaintiffs – alleging the companies conspired together between 2008 and 2016 to fix poultry prices.
But as Dave Dickey writes, billions of dollars are at stake here. And things are not always as they seem.