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Nearly half of all meatpacking plant outbreaks are still not accounted for

08.21.2020
Sky Chadde
In a first, Michigan orders farms and meatpacking plants to test workers for Covid-19
08.10.2020
by Sam Bloch
Smithfield Foods used a newspaper ad to attack the media. Here’s how it’s done—and why—in 12 tweets.
08.04.2020
by The Counter
Meat companies refuse to get specific about Covid-19 caseloads, record exports during height of pandemic
07.27.2020
by Sam Bloch
Beef packers’ profit margins reached historic levels during the height of Covid-19 plant shutdowns
07.24.2020
by Jessica Fu
In Arkansas, increasing pressure on Tyson Foods and Governor Hutchinson to protect workers’ lives
07.07.2020
by Sam Bloch
Navajo ranchers are raising premium beef
06.30.2020
by Irina Zhorov / High Country News
U.S. meat companies warned of shortages and an executive order kept them open. At the same time, they were exporting record amounts of pork to China.
06.24.2020
by Azure Gilman
China suspends chicken imports from Covid-impacted Tyson plant in Arkansas
06.23.2020
by H. Claire Brown
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