Meat Industry

Companies can use the label when animals are raised in countries outside of the U.S., as long as they are processed inside the U.S.

A union at a South Dakota pork plant is considering a walkout after rejecting a contract with Smithfield foods. Meat-packing workers have been forced to navigate employment in a pandemic, and the union hopes a strike will help get base pay at the plant raised to $19 an hour.

Meat prices were estimated to rise as much as 3% this summer before the recent cyberattack on JBS, the world's largest meat processing company. The attack might exacerbate the already-rising prices from COVID-19 shutdowns, worker shortages and bad weather.

A U.S.-based company's laboratory-cultivated meat was just approved for sale in Singapore. What does this mean for the food industry as we know it?

Top Game—that's the name they gave him—is one of the luckiest Black Angus bulls alive. The four-year old won't be dinner anytime soon. His sperm is too valuable to Walmart.

With mounting concerns about the spread of disease, razor-thin profit margins, investors pulling out and even Washington taking action, the animal product industry may not survive COVID-19.

Conditions for meat industry workers "have become much more dangerous during this pandemic," Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh said in a statement Tuesday.

Starting on Wednesday, the plant is scheduled to close temporarily to test employees for the new coronavirus after more than 60 cases were confirmed among staff.

China's food-processing factories provide most of what goes into vegan burger patties and other meat replacements made by market leaders Beyond Meat and Impossible foods—an arrangement that could damage their standing among consumers in the coronavirus age.

"Overall, people will still be able to find enough meat and poultry to take care of their families," one industry expert said.

"We can't foresee a time when America would run out of meat," Sarah Little, vice president of communications at the North American Meat Institute told Newsweek. "We have reserves in cold storage and we have the most abundant livestock supply in the world—so much so that we export meat."

Marking Bacon Day in the U.S., we look at the origins of the popular cured pork belly meat and where to bag some good bacon deals.

"Meat and poultry slaughterhouses are currently one of the largest point source dischargers of nutrient pollution into waterways," said a spokesperson from the Center for Biological Diversity.

To create the cultivated beef steaks, an Israeli start-up devised a method which mimics the natural process of tissue regeneration inside a cow's body.

A group of former inmates at an Arizona prison say they were served meat labelled "not for human consumption," echoing several other claims made by prisoners allegedly served unfit meat in recent years.

We need to intervene now in order to avoid the catastrophic consequences of antibiotic resistance.

Startups around the world are racing to become the globe's premier source of "cultured meat."

A Chatham House report says shifting to a plant-based diet could drastically lower global greenhouse gas emissions.

The impact that animal agriculture has on our planet cannot be underestimated.

To keep global temperatures from rising, we must cut down on animal agriculture.

The rest of the world is fast adopting a Western diet, hastening climate change.

While the public is getting confused by semantics, the U.S. meat industry is out of control