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WATCH: Disturbing Undercover Footage Linked To Major Meat Processor

HuffingtonPost.com | Joanna Zelman | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Humane Society Undercover Footage, Video, Animal-Rights, Humane Society Pigs, Tyson Pigs, Tyson Foods, Tyson Abuse, Humane Society Wyoming, Tyson Animal Abuse, Tyson Pork, Wyoming Premium Farms, Hsus, Green News

Piglets are haphazardly swung in circles, sows are beaten, and animals squirm with untreated abscesses in new footage alleging animal abuse at a Wyomi...

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Workers Fear Plan To Speed Up Chicken Processing Lines

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Chicken, Labor, Video, Usda Poultry Inspections, Workers, Labor Department, Tyson Foods, Poultry, Food Safety, Ufcw, Usda, Worker Safety, Cass Sunstein, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- When he was working on a poultry processing line in northern Alabama last year, Jorge Polanco-Mercado watched new workers come and go al...

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Perry Defends 'Pink Slime'

AP | KRISTI EATON | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Beef Products, Video, Beef, Sam Brownback, Terry Branstad, Tyson Foods, Food Safety, Pink Slime, Usda, Rick Perry, Politics News

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. — Governors of three states got up close with "pink slime" Thursday, touching and examining treated beef at a plant and e...

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Why We Must Occupy Our Food Supply

Willie Nelson | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Big Food, Factory Farming, Jbs, Tyson Foods, Farmers, Cargill, Occupy BIg Food, Factory Farms, Small Farmers, Occupy Food, Monsanto, Food News

When our food is at risk we are all at risk. Over the last thirty years, we have witnessed a massive consolidation of our food system, leading to the loss of millions of family farmers, the destruction of soil fertility, the pollution of our water, and health epidemics.

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Lard For Land Rovers: Tyson Converts Animal Fat To Fuel

Posted 02.22.2012

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You've probably heard of cars that look like their owners. What about cars that eat like their owners? Until recently, most of the cars that could do ...

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50 Most Powerful People in Food? Whose Food?

Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: The Daily Meal, Grant Achatz, Growing Power, Tyson Foods, Cargill, Greenmarket, Slow Food USA, Bill Marler, McDonald's, Foodcorps, Will Allen, Mark Bittman, Monsanto, Josh Viertel, Food News

This duality of sustainable food advocates on one end and industrial food giants on the other shows the growing power of each of the poles of our food system.

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New Trial Ordered In Tyson Foods Sexual Discrimination Lawsuit

AP | Posted 12.30.2011

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- A new trial has been ordered in a sexual discrimination lawsuit against Tyson Foods Inc. The ruling, published Wednesday, by th...

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Meat Industry Says New Antitrust Rule Will Raise Prices

AP | By CHRISTOPHER LEONARD | Posted 12.09.2011

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ST. LOUIS -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a new but stripped-down antitrust rule Thursday regulating meat companies that's far less swe...

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Tyson Settles Sex Discrimination Cases

AP | x | Posted 11.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. is paying $2.25 million to settle federal allegations of sex discrimination. The Labor Department says Tyson wil...

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Tyson Bribery Case Reveals Weakness in Meat Inspection Policy

Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Tyson Bribery Case, Tyson Mexico Bribes, Meat Inspectors, Tyson Bribes, E. Coli, Tyson, Tyson Foods, Food News

Tyson Foods made headlines in February when it was fined millions for allegedly bribing meat inspectors in Mexico in 2004. But a new report from the N...

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Tyson Fined $5.2 Million Over Foreign Inspection Bribes

The Wall Street Journal | Samuel Rubenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tyson Foods Inc. settled with U.S. regulators over allegations that it paid bribes to meat-processing plant inspectors in Mexico. The Springdale, Ark...

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One Big Store

Daniel Krotz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Daniel Krotz, Small Farmers, Berryville Arkansas, Wal-Mart, Tyson Foods, Berryville, Michelle Obama, One Big Store, Bill Simon, Food News

Michelle Obama and Bill Simon, Wal-Mart's president and CEO, met last week. Does the first lady not realize that One Big Store is as sure a destroyer of culture as is One Big Government?

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Supreme Court Rejects Farmer Who Tangled With Tyson

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal from a former Tennessee poultry farmer who sued Tyson Farms after losing his cont...

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Don Tyson, Poultry Tycoon, Dies At 80

AP | CHUCK BARTELS | Posted 05.25.2011

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Former Tyson Foods Inc. chief executive Donald J. Tyson, who led his family's poultry company from being a regional producer...

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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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The Tug of War - Ethical vs. Economic "Green" Decisions

Tony Greenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earthlings, Data Centers, Ramprate, John Robbins, Green Living, Ecology, Thomas Friedman, Dr. Suess, Lifestyle, Beef, Tyson Foods, Environment, Eco-Friendly, Diet, Green, Meatless Monday, Shaun Monson, Vegetarian Lifestyle, Green News

There's a constant push-pull between what is environmentally "best" and what is economically sensible. So, how to make the world better, and do it in a reasonable way? To start, you should gather information.

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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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Neil Young To Perform Gulf Charity Concerts

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tyson Foods, Bay Area Food Bank, Charity Concerts, Neil Young, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Neil Young Charity Concert, Gulf Families, Neil Young Gulf Coast, Impact News

Musical icon Neil Young has announced he will play a series of charity concerts to help families affected by the Gulf oil spill. Young is joining f...

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Tyson Chicken to pay workers for time donning safety gear

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Tyson Foods Inc. on Thursday settled a decade-long dispute with the Labor Department by agreeing to pay workers at poultry plants f...

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Tyson Foods To Investigate Allegations Of Chicken Torture

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tyson Foods Inc., the largest U.S. meat company, said it will investigate allegations by the animal-welfare group People for the Ethical Treatment of ...

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USDA Revokes Tyson's "No Antibiotics" Label

AP | Marcus Kabel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tyson Foods Inc. plans to revise labels that say its fresh chicken is "raised without antibiotics" after the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it ma...

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