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West Liberty Foods, LLC is an American meat-processing company owned by the Iowa Turkey Growers Cooperative and formed in 1996 [35] by a group of Iowa turkey growers, [36] and now owns four meat processing plants. [37] The company mainly produces products for customers to sell under their own brand names. [36]
In May 2004, Pilgrim's Pride experienced an outbreak of avian influenza in Hopkins County in northeast Texas; 24,000 breeder hens were destroyed to contain the outbreak. [10] On July 20, 2004, PETA released a video showing cruelty to chickens at a Pilgrim's Pride plant in West Virginia. [11]
Tyson has been involved in several lawsuits related to air and water pollution. In June 2003, the company admitted to illegally dumping untreated wastewater from its poultry processing plant near Sedalia, Missouri, from 1998 to 2001. [85] [87] The company pleaded guilty to 20 felony violations of the federal Clean Water Act. [85]
It is the third largest poultry producer in the United States and produces 13.65 million chickens per week. On July 22, 2022, it merged with Wayne Farms to form Wayne-Sanderson Farms . [ 2 ] The new company is controlled by a joint venture between Cargill and Conti (also known as Continental Grain Co. or ContiGroup).
Hurricane Helene shut at least two poultry plants in Georgia and North Carolina and twisted cotton crops in South Carolina in blows to U.S. food and fiber production, company and agriculture ...
The company was founded in 1973. Until 1985, it was a "one-room" chicken processing outfit with 13 employees, primarily conducting de-boning and cutting. The company began growing with the addition of feed mills and slaughterhouses. Now Koch Foods is an international poultry processor that deals in fresh and frozen offerings.
More than 11.7 million pounds of meat and poultry ready-to-eat food products have been recalled as a result of the listeria outbreak at the southern Oklahoma-based plant BrucePac, shown Thursday ...
Mobile poultry processing units (MPPUs) follow the same principles, but typically require only one trailer and, in much of the United States, may legally operate under USDA exemptions not available to red meat processors. [30] Several MPPUs have been in operation since before 2010, under various models of operation and ownership. [31]