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An analyst upgraded Smithfield Food Inc. on Wednesday, sending shares of the food maker to a 13-month high.
Smithfield Packing Co. and the union that worked for years to organize one of the world's largest pork slaughterhouses said Friday they had reached a tentative agreement on their first contract for the plant just four months after starting talks.
The National Labor Relations Board is holding off on officially declaring that the world's largest pork slaughterhouse has a new labor union.
A look at the key dates in the fight over unionizing Smithfield Food Inc.'s slaughterhouse and processing plant in Tar Heel, N.C.
Employees at Smithfield Packing Co.'s massive North Carolina hog slaughterhouse on Wednesday began two days of voting that will decide whether unions will get a rare boost in the country's least-unionized state.
Pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc. said Monday it will sell Groupe Smithfield Holdings SL, its main European subsidiary to Campofrio Alimentacion SA, the largest processed meats company in Spain.
Another Outbreak of H1N1 in Swine at Smithfield Farms Mexican OperationOn December 10, 2009, Dr.
Pork prevention: What's behind the NPPC bailout, or how the government keeps filling up Big Meat's troughOn Monday, the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) asked the USDA for $250 million in assistance to "help pork producers through the catastrophic market situation they are currently experiencing." It is indeed a catastrophe: In the Great Pork Glut of 2009, so many piggies …
Capitalist Pigs: What the Wall Street Meltdown and Swine Flu Have in CommonEven if you don't dig on swine, it has become impossible to avoid them. If you're not pummeled by television reports about Wall Street oinkers, you're bombarded by talk-radio rants about congressional pork and newspaper dispatches about swine flu.
First let me start out by saying that the Swine Flu was not spread to the United States by illegal Immigrants, a trap most conservative News sources fell for at some point in the last couple days.
Urgent: Taking on Big MeatI've recently learned (thanks to a little birdie from Capitol Hill) that Tyson, Smithfield, and pals are on the rampage this morning, circulating memos and e-mails against two important livestock amendments to be offered today on the Farm Bill.
Everything You Never Wanted To Know About the Pork IndustrySmithfield Foods, the largest and most profitable pork processor in the world, killed 27 million hogs last year. That's a number worth considering. A slaughter-weight hog is fifty percent heavier than a person.
Smithfield Packing Abusing Workers and Food SafetyLocated in Tar Heel, N.C., the Smithfield Packing pork processing plant is the largest in the country. It employs 6,000 workers who work to slaughter 33 hogs a minute, 24 hours a day. In 2000, Human Rights Watch issued a report that chronicles how Smithfield Packing, Inc.
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