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Tyson Foods to close Iowa pork plant with 1,200 workers: Tyson Foods will permanently close a pork plant in Perry, Iowa, the meatpacker said on Monday ...
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Tyson Foods to close Iowa pork plant with 1,200 workers
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Conservative investor drops Tyson Foods over immigration flap: Misinformation about Tyson's hiring practices has circulated online since Bloomberg first reported ...
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Conservative investor drops Tyson Foods over immigration flap
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The truth about China’s influence on American agriculture: Chinese ownership of agricultural land does not threaten our ability to produce food.
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The truth about China’s influence on American agriculture
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Tyson reports earnings beat, but high beef prices stress its consumers: Tyson Foods (TSN.N) reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings on Monday and said ...
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Tyson reports earnings beat, but high beef prices stress its consumers
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Smithfield Foods again cuts jobs in Beaver County. Here’s why this time is different.
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Smithfield Foods again cuts jobs in Beaver County. Here’s why this time is ...
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US pork producers in 2023 are looking at their least profitable year on record: Even bacon-crazy Americans can't fully offset a broader slump in demand
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US pork producers in 2023 are looking at their least profitable year on ...
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This Company Is Polluting A Predominantly Black Town With Pig Manure. And The Government Is Making It Easier For Them To Do It
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This Company Is Polluting A Predominantly Black Town With Pig Manure ...
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What Would It Mean to Treat Animals Fairly?: Elizabeth Barber on Martha Nussbaum’s “Justice for Animals”; Peter Singer’s “Animal Liberation Now ...
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What Would It Mean to Treat Animals Fairly?
Quick Glance: Animal Welfare: A Deeper Perspective
  • As per Smithfield's denial of animal mistreatment, the piglets were valued at around forty-two dollars each, but both exhibited signs of illness such as diarrhea.

  • This indicated their unlikely survival and eventual disposal, similar to millions of farm animals yearly.

  • An estimated fifteen million animals, including mice, rats, cats, dogs, birds, and nonhuman primates, are currently used for research in the U.S.

  • Only four percent of Americans are vegetarians, with approximately eighty-three billion animals being killed for food annually.
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WSJ News Exclusive | Chinese-Owned Pork Producer Smithfield Prepares for U.S. Listing
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WSJ News Exclusive | Chinese-Owned Pork Producer Smithfield Prepares for U ...
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This Utah county ‘hit the panic button’ when a big employer left. Here’s what happened next.
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This Utah county ‘hit the panic button’ when a big employer left ...
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Meat Producer Smithfield Foods to Close North Carolina Pork Plant Amid Downturn: Smithfield Foods Inc. will close a North Carolina pork plant, the latest move in ...
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Meat Producer Smithfield Foods to Close North Carolina Pork Plant Amid ...
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A nearly 50-year-old pork-processing plant in Charlotte is closing, and leaving more than 100 people without jobs if they want to stay in the region ... Show more
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More than 100 Charlotte plant workers given a choice: Relocate or lose your job: Smithfield Foods closing pork-processing plant in Charlotte NC moving it near ...
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More than 100 Charlotte plant workers given a choice: Relocate or lose ...
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The largest pig farmers worldwide: The new ranking | agrarheute.com: Globally, there are now 50 pig producer giants, each owning more than 100,000 sows.
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The largest pig farmers worldwide: The new ranking | agrarheute.com
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Illegal muscle-building drug found in some U.S. pork exports : Mexican officials blocked two shipments of pork after they found clenbuterol ...
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Illegal muscle-building drug found in some U.S. pork exports
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Smithfield closes 35 pig farms: structural change also in the USA | agrarheute.com
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Smithfield closes 35 pig farms: structural change also in the USA | ...
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What's in a hot dog? Beef, pork, and a complicated history of class dynamics: Jamie Loftus travelled the United States in 2021 to learn more about the hot dog ...
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What's in a hot dog? Beef, pork, and a complicated history of class ...
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Utah officers shut down animal rights activists. Now their county is paying the protesters thousands.
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Utah officers shut down animal rights activists. Now their county is ...
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Utah activists win $52K in free speech case following Smithfield Foods piglet rescue trial
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Utah activists win $52K in free speech case following Smithfield Foods ...
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Interactive: Where home sales are headed in St. Louis: Find out how home sales have changed recently, which areas have the most home listings ...
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Interactive: Where home sales are headed in St. Louis
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Tyson plant closures hit two small Missouri towns, which will lose 2,200 jobs: The closures of Tyson Foods plants in southern Missouri will be a hit to small ...
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Tyson plant closures hit two small Missouri towns, which will lose 2 ...
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Heartland lawmakers push bans on Chinese purchases of American farms: With relations between the United States and China near a 40-year low, Chinese ownership of ...
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Heartland lawmakers push bans on Chinese purchases of American farms
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Crystal Heath: Smithfield has stranglehold on Utah and Beaver County : The enemy at the gates isn’t someone leafleting about Smithfield in Beaver County
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Crystal Heath: Smithfield has stranglehold on Utah and Beaver County
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Beaver judge finds animal activist guilty of trespassing, disorderly conduct during Pioneer Day event
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Beaver judge finds animal activist guilty of trespassing, disorderly ...
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Curtis Vollmar: Is free speech dead in rural Utah?: “Do you realize you’re not wanted in this community?”
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Curtis Vollmar: Is free speech dead in rural Utah?
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Nicholas D. Kristof: Spy cams show what the pork industry tries to hide: Nicholas D. Kristof writes that spy cams show what the pork industry ties to hide
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Nicholas D. Kristof: Spy cams show what the pork industry tries to hide
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Smithfield to donate food to Blue Ridge Area Food Bank: On Wednesday, Smithfield representatives will present the donations and provide lunch for employees at ...
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Smithfield to donate food to Blue Ridge Area Food Bank
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Farmer John’s laid-off workers offered free training, new prospects: Parent company Smithfield Foods, which acquired Farmer John in 2017, announced it will be ...
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Farmer John’s laid-off workers offered free training, new prospects
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I snuck into a California pig slaughterhouse. What I saw was horrific: Undercover video footage shows pigs screaming, gasping for air and thrashing violently
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I snuck into a California pig slaughterhouse. What I saw was horrific
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Bill targets removing injured or sick livestock after not-guilty verdict against animal rights activists
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Bill targets removing injured or sick livestock after not-guilty verdict ...
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R. Lynn Carlson: Bill would undermine Utah’s jury system: R. Lynn Carlson writes that a proposed bill would undermine Utah’s jury system
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R. Lynn Carlson: Bill would undermine Utah’s jury system
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Spy Cams Reveal the Grim Reality of Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers: Animal rights activists have captured the first hidden-camera video from inside a carbon dioxide ...
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Spy Cams Reveal the Grim Reality of Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers
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Ammonia release at North Carolina food plant sends 4 workers to hospital, company says
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Ammonia release at North Carolina food plant sends 4 workers to hospital ...
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Lawsuit accuses largest US meat producers of wage fixing: A class-action federal lawsuit is accusing 11 of the United States’ largest beef and pork producers of ...
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Lawsuit accuses largest US meat producers of wage fixing
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JBS buys 'certain assets' of major Iowa hog producer TriOak Foods: The acquisition gives the Brazil-based meatpacking giant more control of the hog supply in ...
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JBS buys 'certain assets' of major Iowa hog producer TriOak Foods
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Activists Acquitted in Trial for Taking Piglets From Smithfield Foods: The nation’s largest pork producer argued that the removal of two sick piglets was a case ...
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Activists Acquitted in Trial for Taking Piglets From Smithfield Foods
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Opinion | The Real Questions We Should be Asking After the Smithfield Piglet Case
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Opinion | The Real Questions We Should be Asking After the Smithfield ...
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Animal welfare activists are acquitted in Smithfield piglet case: Animal welfare advocates say the trial has also become a showcase of corporate power ...
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Animal welfare activists are acquitted in Smithfield piglet case
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Figure cited in Missouri’s US Senate race retracted: The size of Smithfield Foods’ parent company’s holdings of Missouri farmland was inflated.
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Figure cited in Missouri’s US Senate race retracted
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Smithfield Foods to pay $75 million in pork price-fixing settlement: The Smithfield, Virginia-based company, a unit of China’s WH Group Ltd., denied liability
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Smithfield Foods to pay $75 million in pork price-fixing settlement
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Foreign farm ownership in Missouri: A complex legacy: Trudy Busch Valentine, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri, has made it a campaign issue.
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Foreign farm ownership in Missouri: A complex legacy
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Giant pork producer JBS to pay $20 million to settle price fixing lawsuit: The company admitted no wrongdoing, but said it will participate in a case against ...
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Giant pork producer JBS to pay $20 million to settle price fixing lawsuit
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Who’s to Blame for a Factory Shutdown: A Company, or California?: The closing of a meatpacking plant near downtown Los Angeles has left its workers reeling and ...
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Who’s to Blame for a Factory Shutdown: A Company, or California?
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Jonathan Frohnmayer: Big Pork is tipping the scales of justice in Utah: Jonathan Frohnmayer writes that Big Pork is tipping the scales of justice in Utah
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Jonathan Frohnmayer: Big Pork is tipping the scales of justice in Utah
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Utah judge concerned about protesters turning trial of animal rights activists into a ‘three-ring circus’ — Here’s what to know
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Utah judge concerned about protesters turning trial of animal rights ...
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Joey Chestnut put protestor into a chokehold during hot dog contest: The protestor interrupted the hot dog eating contest to draw attention to Smithfield Foods ...
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Joey Chestnut put protestor into a chokehold during hot dog contest
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Utah police intimidated animal-rights activists and blamed them for pig farm layoffs, lawsuit says
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Utah police intimidated animal-rights activists and blamed them for pig ...
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The smelly, quirky Farmer John meatpacking plant is closing: Many neighbors of the Vernon slaughterhouse are glad to be free of its stench. However ...
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The smelly, quirky Farmer John meatpacking plant is closing
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World hot dog eating champion chokes on stage - but not on sausages: This is the moment a champion competitive eater puts a protester in a chokehold for ...
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World hot dog eating champion chokes on stage - but not on sausages
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The Plot to Keep Meatpacking Plants Open During COVID-19: Newly released documents reveal that the meatpacking industry’s callousness toward the health of its ...
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The Plot to Keep Meatpacking Plants Open During COVID-19
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The Plot to Keep Meatpacking Plants Open During COVID-19: Newly released documents reveal that the meatpacking industry’s callousness toward the health of its ...
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The Plot to Keep Meatpacking Plants Open During COVID-19
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Meatpackers misled public, successfully lobbied Trump administration to limit COVID rules, congressional report alleges
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Meatpackers misled public, successfully lobbied Trump administration to ...
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1 in 4 employees in this Utah county work for one company — and it’s cutting jobs
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1 in 4 employees in this Utah county work for one company — and it’s ...
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Meat companies lied about shortages, lobbied USDA amid pandemic: Meatpackers knew they were hotbeds for coronavirus transmission but lied about shortages to keep ...
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Meat companies lied about shortages, lobbied USDA amid pandemic
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The Daily Buzz: The Utah County attorney election continues to heat up: Listen to ‘The Daily Buzz’ podcast to hear the latest news each weekday morning from The ...
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The Daily Buzz: The Utah County attorney election continues to heat up
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Farmer John meatpacking plant in Vernon to close, citing high-cost California: Company officials said it is providing “transition assistance” to employees at ...
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Farmer John meatpacking plant in Vernon to close, citing high-cost ...
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Report: Trump officials, meat execs knew workers were at risk: The report cited a message that a Koch Foods executive sent a lobbyist in the spring of 2020 that ...
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Report: Trump officials, meat execs knew workers were at risk