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The meat industry has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. [1] Outbreaks of the virus took place in factories operated by the meat packing industry and the poultry processing industry. These outbreaks affected dozens of plants, leading to closures of some factories and disruption of others, and posed a ...
The Dubuque Packing Company was a meat packing company that operated under a variety of names in Dubuque, Iowa from 1891 until 2001. In the 1950s, the company became the second-largest employer in the city. [1] By the 1960s, the number of employees in the company's workforce rose to approximately 3,500 and the quality of their products became ...
Boar’s Head announced Friday it has indefinitely shut down a Virginia deli meat plant and discontinuing the liverwurst that is linked to a deadly multi-state listeria outbreak that also sickened ...
The Rath Packing Company (Rath) of Waterloo (Iowa) opened for business on November 24, 1891, on the Cedar River. Initially, the company concentrated on hogs, but by 1908 the company was also slaughtering beef and soon lamb as well. Business thrived; lucrative contracts to supply meat to the Armed Forces during both World Wars helped the company ...
Thousands of workers at meat processing and meatpacking facilities across the country are testing positive for the coronavirus, causing many plants to shut down operations as a potential meat ...
Fort Worth-based Standard Meat Co. is planning to renovate a nearly 70-year-old building near the Stockyards to convert it into a specialized packing plant.
hormelfoods.com. Hormel Foods Corporation, doing business as Hormel Foods or simply Hormel, is an American multinational food processing company founded in 1891 in Austin, Minnesota, by George A. Hormel as George A. Hormel & Company. The company originally focused on the packaging and selling of ham, sausage and other pork, chicken, beef and ...
Most meat is processed at giant facilities, creating a weak point in the production chain. ... One of the largest pork processing plants in the U.S., in South Dakota, shut down Sunday as the virus ...