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Fire kills scores at China poultry plant
Fire raged through a poultry plant in northeastern China on Monday, trapping workers inside a cluttered slaughterhouse and killing at least 119 people, reports and officials said. Several dozen people also were hurt in the blaze in Jilin province's...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Fires, Bird Flu, Environmental Issues, China
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Bad news for bacon lovers: China's masses hunger for U.S. pork
Of course you are familiar with the phrase “bring home the bacon,” but did you know it now has an international meaning? Seems that a Chinese meat processing company has agreed to pay $4.7 billion to buy Smithfield Foods Inc., a U.S. firm...
Tags: United States Census Bureau, Smithfield Foods, China, Bacon
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Chinese firm to buy pork producer Smithfield Foods
China is hungry. The world's most populous country has for years been on an agricultural buying binge, scooping up supplies of soybeans, palm oil, cotton and just about anything else that can be culled from the soil. Now, with 1.3 billion mouths to...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Environmental Issues, Consumers, Brazil, Food Industry
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Tyson buys Mexican food factory in San Diego that employs 600
Tyson Foods is branching further beyond the beef, pork and chicken for which it’s known, voyaging deeper into the prepared foods world by snapping up a Mexican food factory in San Diego. The Springdale, Ark., giant bought Circle Foods, which...
Tags: Tyson Foods Incorporated, China, New Products
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Pork firm Smithfield sold to China's Shuanghui for $7.1 billion
Smithfield Foods Inc., the world’s leading pork producer, is being sold to Shuanghui International Holdings, owner of China’s largest meat processing business, for $7.1 billion. Smithfield shareholders, who along with antitrust regulators...
Tags: Smithfield Foods, Consumers, China, Standards, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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Dairy farm linked to Burger King, In-N-Out accused of animal abuse
An Idaho dairy farm linked to Burger King, In-N-Out and other food companies has been accused by an animal rights group of “some of the most abusive treatment of animals” it had ever seen. Undercover video footage (warning: images may be...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Environmental Issues, Food Industry, Conservation, Ecosystems
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USDA clears California slaughterhouse accused of abuse to reopen
Central Valley Meat Co., the California slaughterhouse shut down by regulators last week after undercover video footage showed apparent animal abuse, reopened Monday morning after promising to change its ways. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Jack in the Box Incorporated, Food Industry, Economy, Business and Finance, Burger King
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Animal cruelty: Why McDonald's, In-N-Out, Wall Street now say no
This post has been updated. See note below.In-N-Out, McDonald’s Corp., Jack in the Box, Burger King and other chains quickly cut ties with Central Valley Meat Co. this week after undercover footage from an animal welfare group showed cows at the California slaughterhouse seemingly tortured...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Burger King Corp., Food Industry, Economy, Business and Finance, Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings
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London's East End, an Olympics alternative
Reporting from London — Never mind the sprints, relays and marathons coming to London this summer. Look at the competition now among the flower vendors of Columbia Road.
"Who's got a fiver?" hollers one grizzled man with a fistful of roses....Tags: Huguenot, Immigration, Restaurants, Bars and Clubs, David Hockney
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Burger King promises to use cage-free eggs and pork
Burger King Corp.promised Wednesday to switch to only cage-free eggs and pork -- a day after the reemergence of mad-cow disease focused national scrutiny even more on Americans’ food sources. The fast food giant, one of the largest in the world,...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Foods and Beverages, Hamburgers, Vegetarian Diet
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Bon Appetit cafes to forgo pigs housed in cramped cages
Animal rights activists are winning ever more concessions from major companies on the issue of cramped cages for pigs -- this time from cafe company Bon Appetit Management.
Bon Appetit, which operates more than 400 cafes in 31 states -- including on...Tags: Companies and Corporations, University of Pennsylvania, The Getty, Economy, Business and Finance, Hormel Foods Corporation
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McDonald's pork provider Smithfield pledges gestation crate phase-out
Money & CompanySmithfield promises to ban gestation crates for pregnant pigs by 2017...
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