Sausage King faces coronavirus reckoning
Clemens Toennies, known to Germans as a brash billionaire, is turning into a public villain after one of his meat-processing ...
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Small is beautiful say meat processing advocates
As food factories in England and Wales close, with around 250 confirmed cases of coronavirus among workers, pressure for regulatory ...
Could the US copy China’s strategic pork reserve?
During the height of the coronavirus pandemic, we became accustomed to face-masked shoppers, social distancing and one-way aisles at the ...
How Europe avoided US meatpacking catastrophe
The Food & Environmental Reporting Network looks at why Europe did not suffer the same meatpacking crisis from Covid-19 as ...
US: big four meatpackers subpoenaed
Bloomberg reports that in America, the Justice Department is formally demanding information from the country’s four biggest meatpackers over potential ...
Covid in Northern Ireland food processing plants
According to Channel 4 News, Northern Ireland has announced two deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours – an ...
Covid-19 crisis highlights need for food security
Meat Promotion Wales Chief Executive Gwyn Howells has emphasised the importance of food security for Wales, according to Business News Wales. ...
New York Times: the end of meat is here
In an Opinion article for the New York Times, Jonathan Safran Foer asks, Is any panic more primitive than the ...
Mass slaughter of hens and pigs in response to glut
The Guardian reports that the closure of meat plants due to coronavirus has led to a ‘depopulation’ of hens and ...
American meat plants ordered to stay open
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that compels slaughterhouses to remain open, according to Bloomberg. It sets up ...
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