Tag: meat processing
Meat processing grants awarded
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine recently awarded $14 million to meat harvesting and processing facilities in Ohio through the Ohio Meat Processing Grant Program.
It takes guts to fix our abusive illegal ag labor system
Alan Geubert sheds light on the labor infractions of Wisconsin-based contractor, Packers Sanitation Services, Inc., and what they should mean to consumers.
Fine proves what, not who, we truly value
Alan Guebert digs into Big Meat's latest scandal involving a $1.5 million fine paid by a company called Packers Sanitation Services Inc.
USDA invests in meat and poultry processing plant in Cleveland
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing more than $9.5 million to expand an independent meat and poultry processing capacity in Ohio.
Training in meat processing provides opportunities for incarcerated adults
The Pickaway Correctional Institution's Meat Processing Career Center is providing training and job skills for around 65 incarcerated men.
All hats, no cattle and little chance
Ranchers and feeders get more pie-in-the-sky talk while the big four meatpackers continue to carve up markets both here and abroad.
Outside the fence one time too many
For the third time in less than a year, a jury in Denver failed to convict poultry company executives of federal charges of conspiracy to fix prices.
‘I have said we have to see some results!’
Alan Guebert weighs in on a “Memorandum” that mapped how meatpackers and the Trump Administration kept employees working in coronavirus-rife meat plants.
Community Kitchen Pittsburgh hopes to meet need for trained butchers
A nonprofit culinary training program is adding a butchery apprenticeship to its offerings fill the dire need for highly-skilled butchers.
$10M in grants awarded to Ohio processors
Forty Ohio livestock and poultry producers will receive grants totaling $10 million to help expand capacity and meet demand for meat processing services.