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Circa 1939 the Los Angeles Union Stock Yards advertised itself to ranchers as being host to four major national meat packing companies and 25 smaller regional companies. [12] The Stockyards Hotel brothel was operated in proximity to the stockyards by Augusto "Chito" Sasso and Rose "Mumsie" McGonigle circa 1940.
Stockyards mostly handled cattle and pigs for beef and pork production, but occasionally served as waystations for other animals. For example, around 1934 a dozen American bison from Colorado headed for Santa Catalina Island were held at the Los Angeles Union Stock Yards before boarding the ferry for their final leg of the trip. [6]
Cudahy Packing Company (/ ˈ k ʌ d ə h eɪ / CUD-ə-hey) was an American meat packing company established in 1887 as the Armour-Cudahy Packing Company and incorporated in Maine in 1915. [1] The Cudahy meatpacking business was acquired by Bar-S Foods Company in 1981.
Some litigation is still pending, although meat packers and processers have opened their wallets in the past. In 2022, for example, JBS agreed to a $52.5 million settlement in a similar beef price ...
The North American Meat Institute, a trade group, said in a statement the rule would expose meat packers to litigation and uncertainty. "Under these proposed rules, everyone loses, the livestock ...
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After meat packers struck at the Armour plants in the early-1980s, Teets shut 29 facilities and sold Armour Food Company to ConAgra in 1983 [14] but kept the Armour Star canned meat business. Armour-Dial continued to manufacture the canned meat products using the Armour Star trademark under license from ConAgra.
Some litigation is still pending, although meat packers and processers have opened their wallets in the past. In 2022, for example, JBS agreed to a $52.5 million settlement in a similar beef price-fixing lawsuit. And Tyson agreed to pay $221.5 million back in 2021, after facing class-action claims that alleged purposely inflated chicken prices.