Meat

Tyson Foods Inc., which says it produces 20% of the beef, pork and chicken in the U.S., has suspended managers at an Iowa plant accused of participating in a betting pool on how many employees would become ill with COVID-19.

As coronavirus outbreaks among workers closed several Canadian meat plants, Henry Mizrahi saw a different future for Lesters Foods, the hot dog factory he runs in Montreal.

After springtime shortages, supermarkets are selling meat for lower prices as supplies rebound and exports decline.

The pandemic is speeding meatpackers’ shift from human meat cutters to automated ones, but machines can’t yet match people’s ability

The company behind Tyson, Jimmy Dean and Hillshire Farm will roll out the new protocol at all 140 of its U.S. production facilities.

In April, the prices Americans were paying for their groceries spiked by the highest percentage seen in nearly 50 years.

Three of the nation’s largest meat processors failed to provide protective gear to all workers, and some employees say they were told to continue working in crowded plants even while sick as the coronavirus spread around the country and turned the facilities into infection hot spots, a Washington Post investigation has found.

In one month, the meat industry’s supply chain broke. Here’s what you need to know. ‘The food supply chain is breaking,’ Tyson Foods says. That may not be an exaggeration.