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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]
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]
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]
By comparison, the three Foster Poultry Farms plants in the Valley had lower self-reported injury rates, at 23.9 injuries per 100 employees at the Livingston plant; 20 injuries per 100 employees ...
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 plant reopened after a 9-day closure. [30] By April 15, 102 workers had tested positive for the coronavirus, and four had died. [31] Outbreaks of COVID-19 have also been found in six other JBS beef processing plants, in Souderton, Pennsylvania; Plainwell, Michigan; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Cactus, Texas; Grand Island, Nebraska; and Hyrum, Utah.
The company had become the largest poultry producer on the entire West Coast and the eighth largest in the nation. In 1997, the company bought the leading poultry producer in Washington, Pederson's Fryer Farms, for approximately $7 million. [5] The company opened a $45 million, 500-job processing facility in South Kelso, Washington in 1998. [4]
A meat processing plant in Durant finds itself at the center of a nationwide recall of nearly 12 million pounds of meat and poultry products distributed to a vast number of retailers, institutions ...