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OSHA takes a limited role protecting workers in pandemic

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 29, 2020
The agency hasn't set specific safety standards to hold employers to.
President Donald Trump has declared that meat processing businesses are "critical infrastructure."
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What does President Trump's order on meat processing plants mean for workers and food supply?

by David Brancaccio , Candace Manriquez Wrenn and Alex Schroeder
Apr 29, 2020
Maintaining social distance at these COVID-19 hot spots is not easy.
We're now buying almost all of our meat through supermarket chains.
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Meat processing plants are COVID-19 hot spots. What does that mean for U.S. food supply?

by Kimberly Adams , Nova Safo and Alex Schroeder
Apr 27, 2020
Tyson Foods is warning that millions of pounds of meat could "disappear."
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With some meatpacking plant closures due to COVID-19, a look at their role in the food supply chain

by Madelyn Beck
Apr 20, 2020
The industry has consolidated over the last decades, so there are fewer plants, that handle a lot more meat.
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How Latinos are transforming the economy of a small rural town

by Reema Khrais and Daisy Palacios
Sep 8, 2017
Immigrants drawn by jobs at the local meat-packing plant are making their mark in business and politics.
Norma Corral, an immigrant from Mexico, worked at Cargill's beef processing plant in Schuyler, Nebraska for a decade before opening up her business, Paleteria Oasis, in downtown.
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In Nebraska, immigrants work hard-to-fill jobs in meatpacking industry

by Reema Khrais and Daisy Palacios
Sep 8, 2017
The nation's food supply chain could collapse without immigrant labor.
Chuck Folken is the owner of Folken Feed Yards, a livestock feed farm in Leigh, Nebraska.
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Another media company under the microscope with 'pink slime' defamation trial

by David Brancaccio
Jun 5, 2017
Beef Products Inc. has filed a nearly $6 billion lawsuit against ABC.
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