Some big grocery chains, including Hy-Vee, are beginning to restrict how much meat customers may buy in a bid to head off any hoarding as meatpacking plants around the country have stopped and started ...

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota -- Virginia-based Smithfield Foods announced Sunday that it is closing its pork processing plant in Sioux Falls until further notice after hundreds of employees tested ...

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, which launched its probe in February 2021 into meatpackers' Covid response, also found that meat processors' warnings about the nation being on ...

On April 21, the United Nations projected that because of Covid-19, the number of people facing severe food insecurity worldwide could double to 265 million. The same week, in the United States, the ...

Meat packing plants are getting hit with COVID-19 at the same time that companies are wrestling with a logistical nightmare of supply. That is prompting some retailers to act ahead of potential ...

COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, has infected hundreds of workers at meat-processing plants and forced some of the largest to close and others to slow production. While the output at beef ...

DES MOINES (AP) — Meat isn’t going to disappear from supermarkets because of outbreaks of the coronavirus among workers at U.S. slaughterhouses. But as the meat plants struggle to remain open, ...

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Enock Benjamin died four days after a plant in Pennsylvania closed. The family of a Pennsylvania meat factory worker who was killed by the coronavirus is suing the company, alleging his employer ...