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  2. Meat industry - Wikipedia

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    Many aspects of the raising of animals for meat have become industrialized, even many practices more associated with smaller family farms, e.g. gourmet foods such as foie gras. [3] [4] The production of livestock is a heavily vertically integrated industry where the majority of supply chain stages are integrated and owned by one company ...

  3. Meat-packing industry - Wikipedia

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    The William Davies Company facilities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, circa 1920. This facility was then the third largest hog-packing plant in North America. The meat-packing industry (also spelled meatpacking industry or meat packing industry) handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.

  4. Labor rights in American meatpacking industry - Wikipedia

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    Within the meat production industry, "meatpacking" is defined as "all manufacturing of meat products including the processing of animals." [1] This includes production of beef, pork, poultry, and fish. [1] The scope of the American meat production industry is large; it slaughters and processes over 10 billion animals per year. [4]

  5. Slaughterhouse - Wikipedia

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    Workers and cattle in a slaughterhouse in 1942. In livestock agriculture and the meat industry, a slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir (/ ˈ æ b ə t w ɑːr / ⓘ), is a facility where livestock animals are slaughtered to provide food. Slaughterhouses supply meat, which then becomes the responsibility of a meat-packing facility.

  6. Food workers were on the front lines. Why are so many still ...

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  7. More than 1,800 workers at meat industry giants, including Tyson, Smithfield Foods, and JBS have been sickened with COVID-19. A worker filed a lawsuit against Smithfield on Thursday alleging ...

  8. Intensive animal farming - Wikipedia

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    For 2002–2003, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates of industrial production as a percentage of global production were 7 percent for beef and veal, 0.8 percent for sheep and goat meat, 42 percent for pork, and 67 percent for poultry meat.

  9. Stimulus Update: Farm Workers and Meat Packers To ... - AOL

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    Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced yesterday a new plan to distribute one-time $600 pandemic relief payments to the U.S. meat packers and farmworkers. The aid comes as part of a new $700...