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Migrants on Guest-Worker Visas Face Wage Theft, Abuse
From 2005 to 2020, U.S. employers around the country were ordered to pay more than $42.5 million in back wages to 69,000 workers who perform seasonal low-wage jobs on guest worker visas
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Unhappy With Prices, Ranchers Look to Build Own Meat Plants
Frustrated with persistently low prices, ranchers and others in the beef industry are moving to reverse a long trend of consolidation and planning to open new slaughterhouses
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Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat Battle to Achieve Price Parity With Real Meat
Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are perfecting plant-based meat products to have taste and texture similar to animal meat products, but costs are still high.
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The Shanghai Lab Making Fake Pork Dumplings and Helping China Go Beyond Meat
Asia has billions to feed, and more will be eating plant-based proteins. An R&D lab in Shanghai is key to one of fake meat’s fastest-growing regions.
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Chicken Giant Sanderson Farms Reportedly Exploring a Potential Sale
Sanderson Farms is exploring a potential sale of the company as prices of poultry continue to rise due to increased demand, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Plant-Based Food Start-Up Eat Just Receives $200 Million Investment Led by Qatar
Eat Just, best known for creating plant-based food products, has raised a $200 million fundraising round led by the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar.
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Children of Tyson Worker Who Died of COVID-19 Allege Lax Virus Safety at Iowa Plant
The children of a Tyson Foods worker who died of the coronavirus in April have filed a lawsuit claiming his plant took few safety precautions before he and others became infected in Iowa’s first major outbreak. Pedro Cano, 51, worked on the kill floor elbow-to-elbow with others at Tyson’s pork processing plant in Columbus Junction, according to the lawsuit...
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North Carolina Salon Turns Away Poultry Plant Workers
North Carolina salon won’t provide haircuts to any workers from a nearby Tyson poultry plant after a COVID-19 outbreak at the facility.
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Local Meat Suppliers See Boost in Business Amid National Meat Plant Closures
As some meat plants begin to close due to COVID-19 concerns, New Britain’s Catanzaro Quality Meats has seen an uptick in business. Since 1932, Catanzaro has served as a retail and wholesale business and recently the demand for meat has skyrocketed. “We have chicken, steak pork chops, and hamburgers which are all hot commodities,” said Mirya Catanzaro, store manager for…
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Meat Plant Closures Means Growing Demand For Local Farms
Connecticut farms are finding growing demand for meat as some plants nationwide face closures due to the pandemic
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States Work to Keep Meat Plants Open Despite Virus Outbreaks
Governors in the Midwest are working to keep large meatpacking plants operating despite coronavirus outbreaks that have sickened hundreds of workers and threaten to disrupt the nation’s supply of pork and beef.
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