Handling and welfare

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Smithfield Foods has suspended federal campaign donations after the US Capitol riot on 6 December.

Chicken processor Foster Farms is facing scrutiny after three workers at its Cherry Avenue plant in Fresno and nine workers at its Livingston plant in Merced county have died of COVID-19.

As a new, more infectious variant of the novel coronavirus emerges in the UK, the BMPA urges the government to vaccinate meat plant workers to avoid shutdowns and wide-spread supply chain disruptions.

Jim Newell of gas separation specialist Oxair, examines the pros and cons of layer depopulation methods - including the latest humane innovation.

Tyson Foods said on 16 December that it had fired seven managers at an Iowa pork plant after investigating allegations that they took bets on how many employees would catch COVID-19.

US poultry company Perdue Farms is urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to work to coordinate states’ policies over who will receive the COVID-19 vaccines first, warning that individual, patchwork plans could threaten the success of the vaccination campaign.…

Brazil’s meat producers have increased output for global markets in 2020 amid COVID-19 upsets, and is expected to boost production in 2021.

As US companies push to get workers vaccinated, states disagree on who is essential.

Environment Secretary George Eustice unveils plans to end excessively long journeys for animals exported for slaughter and fattening.

China’s Administration for Market Regulation now requires imported cold-chain food products to undergo a nucleic acid test for COVID-19 before any products can be sold in China.

A new report from the British Veterinary Association (BVA) says that the UK veterinary profession is facing a triple threat from COVID-19, Brexit and exotic disease.

News of a new COVID-19 vaccine immediately raises the question of how best to allocate the first batches of doses when they become available.

A new article published by PNAS suggests that slaughterhouses across the United States acted as COVID-19 transmission vectors and accelerated the spread of the virus in the communities that surrounded them.

A new report from the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) finds that the USDA's oversight of large slaughterhouses is lacking, leading to widespread mistreatment of birds.

Consultancy firm GlobalData says that JBS, BRF and other meat manufacturers need to address environmental negligence claims before retailers cut ties altogether.

Brazil’s JBS SA reiterated its plans to grow production capacity in Brazil and the US after posting robust third-quarter results.

Brazilian meat packing giant JBS SA reported a near nine-times increase in third-quarter net profit, beating market expectations.

A US meat company that supplies Walmart and Costco is suing the state of New Mexico to fight an order that seeks to close a production facility where more than 100 workers have tested positive for COVID-19.

Socially conscious investors rank Brazil’s meatpacking giants JBS and BRF as “medium” risk and Minerva as “high” risk, saying that the firms have yet to address key sustainability issues.