The facilities were recognized for outstanding safety performance through the implementation of innovative and effective employee safety and health programs.
The EPA agreed, among other things, to promulgate a new national Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) rule to address pollution discharges from livestock and poultry farms.
For almost three-quarters of a century, the American Association of Meat Processors’ annual convention has brought together small processors from around the country.
A study from the University of Delaware reports that federal environmental programs have drastically overestimated the poultry industry’s contributions to water pollution.
A study conducted by researchers in Scotland and the Netherlands strongly suggests that a new form of poultry stunning is likely more humane than alternative approaches to rendering birds unconscious prior to slaughter.
