The Humane Society of the United States is accusing pork producers Seaboard Foods and Prestige Farms of mistreating pregnant sows by keeping them in gestation cages.
Diestel Family Turkey Ranch ran a one-month promotion on its Facebook page asking customers to “like” its page in return for a donation to Revolution Foods.
My-Car Provisions, a New London, Conn., meat market, is closing up after 83 years in operation – another victim of the U.S. economy, according to the owner, Raymond Capalbo.
Columbia Packing Co., a Dallas meat-packing plant cited for allegedly draining pig blood into a nearby creek, said that the situation was an accident caused by a clog in the sewer line.
The USDA reported last week that there about 91 million head of cattle in the United States, a decrease of 2 percent from a year ago and the smallest cattle herd since 1952.