As Beef Prices Remain High, Trump Calls for Inquiry Into Meatpackers

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into possible collusion among the big meatpackers. The effort may mollify ranchers, but it’s unclear how far it will go.

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Ranchers Say Trump’s Plan to Lower Beef Prices Is ‘Misguided’

The president wants to increase the amount of Argentine beef imports, infuriating cattle country, which is finally profitable after years of struggle.

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The Ripple Effects of an ICE Raid on a Nebraska Meatpacking Company

Glenn Valley Foods tried to verify every hire through a federal system. After a raid, the company is wondering how it can keep going.

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Why Beef Prices Have Hit a Record

Smaller cattle herds and a decade of headwinds for the industry are expected to push up the cost of burgers and steaks for several years.

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80,000 Pounds of Beef Stolen From a Tennessee Slaughterhouse, Sheriff Says

The sheriff’s office in Grainger County, Tenn., is investigating the theft after shipments from a meat processing facility were loaded onto trucks and never reached their destinations.

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Meatpacking Companies to Pay $8 Million for U.S. Child Labor Violations

Perdue Farms and JBS have settled with the Labor Department after relying on migrant children to do dangerous work in their slaughterhouses. Most of the money will be used to help the children.

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Children Worked Dangerous Shifts at Iowa Slaughterhouse, Inquiry Finds

Qvest Sanitation was ordered to pay nearly $172,000 after the Labor Department found it had employed 11 children to clean equipment on overnight shifts at a pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa.

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What Trump’s Return Could Mean for Animals

A second Trump administration could alter the lives of all sorts of animals, whether they live in laboratories, zoos, fields or forests.

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