But anything that keeps certain plants offline will make that particular challenge worse.” He says the longer his goes on, the bigger weight it will have on slaughter capacity and cattle prices ...

In 1996, animal scientist Dr. Temple Grandin conducted an audit of 24 federal slaughter plants for the US Department of Agriculture. She found that only 30 percent of the plants were able to ...

Kicked, beaten, exposed to extreme temperatures and weather—all too often, animals in slaughter plants are severely mistreated before ... have rarely been brought for abuse of livestock (e.g., cattle, ...

JBS SA , the world's largest meatpacker, has reduced cattle purchases from ranches ... meatpacker Marfrig has agreed to sell 16 slaughtering plants to rival Minerva for 7.5 billion reais ($1. ...