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Will You Pay For A Clearer Conscience?

AP | STEVE KARNOWSKI | Posted 03.22.2012

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MINNEAPOLIS -- As pork producers build new barns and retrofit old ones to give hogs more space, they say consumers opposed to keeping pregnant sows in...

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Spam Maker To Eliminate Cruel Practice

Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Hormel, Hormel Gestation Crates, Spam, Video, Spam Gestation Crates, Smithfield Foods, Humane Society, Gestation Crates, Food News

Riding the coattails of Smithfield Food's announcement to stop using gestation crates by 2017, Hormel, the makers of SPAM, have followed suit. Hormel ...

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Food Fights: The Biggest Culinary Scandals Of 2011

Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Food News, Year-in-Review, Fast Food, Video, Smithfield Foods, Biggest Food News 2011, Food Scandals, Major Food News 2011, McDonald's, Biggest Food Scandals 2011, Food Scandals 2011, Food News

It's hard to say whether or not 2011 was any more tumultuous a year in food than any other. But if not, it's a testament to the volatility and drama i...

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HSUS Video Shows Why Smithfield Must Recommit to Crate Phase-Out Timeline

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Agriculture, Virginia, Humane Society of the United States, Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare, Farm Animals, Smithfield Foods, Undercover Investigation, Pigs, Factory Farms, Agribusiness, Temple Grandin, Pork, Gestation Crates, Green News

Getting rid of gestation crates is the most important reform the pork industry could implement at this time.

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Does Eating Meat Support Bestiality?

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vegetarian, Smithfield Foods, Hormel Foods, Pilgrims Pride, Tyson Foods, New York Times, Marc Cooper, Peta, Meat, Bestiality, Rspca, Food News

Farmed animals endure abuses far worse than even the most horrific things we might think of when we hear "slaughterhouse" or "factory farm."

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Half a Billion Eggs, DeCoster, Factory Farms and Consolidation: The View From Iowa

Dave Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smithfield Foods, Factory Farming, Tyson Foods, Factory Farms, Salmonella, Usda, Concentration, Local Control, Egg Recall, Fda, Hillandale Farms, Habitual Violator, H.F. 519, Iowa, Consolidation, Wright County Eggs, Jack DeCoster, Food News

As massive food safety outbreaks become more common, everyday Americans are starting to take a closer look at what they eat and how it's made.

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Pig Business or Business Pigs?

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citizens United, Rig, Smithfield Foods, Bernard Lietaer, Poland, England, Food Politics, Hog, Food, Business, Hoglots, Tracy Worcester, Business News

Ever feel like you were playing checkers and the other guy was playing chess? That's the sort of feeling I get often when I watch many of the recent ...

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Victory at Smithfields: An Independence Day Symbol

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Justice, Ufcw, Unions, Smithfield-Foods, Working Life, Employee Free Choice Act, Independence Day, Fourth of July, Business News

When I think about what these workers went through -- the struggle, the fight, the commitment that held them together over so many dark days -- this is the America that inspires me.

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Doth Smithfield Protest Too Much? Swine Flu Brings Focus to Factory Farm Practices

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Smithfield Foods, Swine Flu Outbreak, Swine Flu, Cafo, Factory Farms, Larry Pope, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, Pork, H1n1, Industrial Agriculture, Green News

As I wrote earlier this week, the virus formerly known as the swine flu (although the CDC continues to say that indeed the H1N1 strain does, as initia...

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Why the Swine Flu is My Fault

Elissa Altman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Smithfield Foods, Responsibility, Swine Flu, Healthy Living News

Someone recently said that good food produced from healthy animals who have been treated fairly, humanely, and kindly is expensive, and it should be. ...

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Let's Ask Marion Nestle: Who Needs Bioterrorism When We've Got Manure Lagoons?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nestle: "Our report fully documented how confined animal feeding operations promote transmission of nasty -- and often antibiotic resistant -- microbial diseases."

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Mexican Lawmaker: Factory Farms Are "Breeding Grounds" of Swine Flu Pandemic

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

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We do know that Mexican pigs with swine flu are being destroyed. And we know that Mexican lawmakers think that confined animal feeding operations are making people sick.

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Swine Flu Outbreak -- Nature Biting Back at Industrial Animal Production?

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: University of Iowa, Avian Flu, Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, Smithfield Foods, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Cafo, Dr. Ellen Silbergeld, Mexico, Swine Flu, Factory Farms, Mexico City-Mexico, World News

A deadly new influenza virus has managed to jump from pigs to people in a previously unseen mutated form that can readily spread among humans. How could this happen? There are several plausible explanations.

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Smithfield Foods Restructure Plan: Job Cuts, Factory Closings

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smithfield Foods Job Cuts, Smithfield Foods, Smithfield Foods Restructuring, Smithfield Foods Factory Closings, Smithfield Foods Plan, Smithfield Foods Pork Business, Home News

The nation's largest pork producer, Smithfield Foods Inc., said Tuesday it plans to close six factories and cut 1,800 jobs to streamline its pork busi...

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Ad Wars: Dr. Evil vs. Unions Over Employee Free Choice Act

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Berman, Center for Union Facts, Unions, Employee Free Choice Act, Dr. Evil, Smithfield Foods, Business News

There is a savvy, if deceptive, ad blitz against the Employee Free Choice Act led in part by Richard Berman, whose specialty is attacking public interest organizations, including MADD.

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Making Sense of the Muckslinging

Michael Markarian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Pork, Prop 2, Proposition 2, California, Factory Farming, Animals, Smithfield Foods, Animal Rights, YES! On Prop 2, Cargill, No on Prop 2, National Pork Producers Council, Marcho Farms, Yes on Prop 2, Strauss Veal, Green News

Factory farm executives see the writing on the wall, and they know they can no longer get away with treating animals like commodities -- like nothing more than meat-producing machines.

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Russia Frees 12 Georgians, Request For China's Support Rebuffed

AP | STEVE GUTTERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia Georgia War, Russia Georgia Conflict, War Wire, Ossetia, Prisoner Release, Georgian Prisoner Release, Smithfield Foods, Home News

MOSCOW — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Thursday of instigating the fighting in Georgia and said he suspects...

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America's Middle Class Needs Right to Bargain, Secure Contracts -- Like CEOs Have

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

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When uninsured Wal-Mart workers get sick, American taxpayers foot the bill. They pay for coverage through Medicaid, the health insurance plan for the poor. That's what the Walton family, which owns Wal-Mart, banks on.

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Ruin Your Barbecue: Learn About The Industry!

Footnoted | Michelle Leder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Usda, 4th of July, Smithfield Foods, Pork, Barbecue, Carbon Footprint, Business News

As we head into the Fourth of July holiday and what will no doubt be a weekend full of BBQs, I can't seem to get a number that I saw in the 10K that S...

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Brazilian Co. Buying US Beef Processors

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Beef Packing Co, Smithfield Beef Group, Beef Processor, JBS SA, Smithfield Foods, National Beef, Business News

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — National Beef Packing Co., the nation's fourth-largest beef processor, said Tuesday it is being acquired by Brazilian giant J...

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PETA: Smithfield Meat Company Practices Animal Cruelty

Reuters Via Yahoo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Smithfield Foods, Peta, Pig Abuse, Cruelty to Pigs, Business News

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said it had documented cruelty to pigs at a supplier for U.S. meat company Smithfield Foods Inc. After an...

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