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FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2020 file photo, a worker heads into the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colo. A weekend ransomware attack on the world’s largest meat company is disrupting production around the world just weeks after a similar incident shut down a U.S. oil pipeline. The White House confirms that Brazil-based meat processor JBS SA notified the U.S. government Sunday, May 30, 2021, of a ransom demand from a criminal organization likely based in Russia. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Largest meat producer getting back online after cyberattack

By Rod Mcguirk And Dee-Ann Durbin Jun. 02, 2021 12:01 AM EDT

In this May 12, 2020, photo, the company logo sign sits at the entrance to the JBS Australia's Dinmore meatworks facility, west of Brisbane. Thousands of Australian meat workers had no work for a second day on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, after a cyberattack crippled the world’s largest meat processing company. A government minister said it might be days before production resumes. (Dan Peled/AAP Image via AP)
Meat producer JBS says expects most plants working Wednesday

By Rod Mcguirk And Dee-Ann Durbin Jun. 01, 2021 05:49 PM EDT

Man pleads guilty to involvement in cockfighting operation

Feb. 18, 2021 10:13 PM EST
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) — A Holyoke man has pleaded guilty to charges connected to his involvement in a cockfighting operation that included more than 400...

Owner Angela Wilson breaks down a whole chicken at Avedano's Meats in San Francisco, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and restrictions on large gatherings, the traditional Thanksgiving feast is being downsized. Fewer people at Thanksgiving tables means many families will buy smaller turkeys, or none at all. On her Thanksgiving orders, Wilson said "we don't want as many big birds and we think we'll sell smaller birds or different things like porcheta or guinea fowl, quails, fresh game hen." (AP Photo/Haven Daley)
Scaled-back Thanksgiving plans leave turkey farmers in limbo

By Dee-Ann Durbin Oct. 30, 2020 01:00 AM EDT

NC egg supplier faces price gouging lawsuit in West Virginia

Aug. 11, 2020 03:22 PM EDT
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's attorney general has filed a second lawsuit against an egg supplier for alleged price gouging during the coronavirus...

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2006, file photo, a car passes in front of a sign at Tyson headquarters in Springdale, Ark. The union representing workers at poultry processing plants sued the federal government on Tuesday, July, 28, 2020, to challenge a new rule that allows companies to increase line speeds through a waiver permitted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and local unions representing plants in Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and Missouri joined with nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen to file the lawsuit in federal court in Washington. (AP Photo/April L. Brown, File)
Unions sue USDA over faster chicken plant production speeds

By David Pitt Jul. 28, 2020 01:42 PM EDT

W.Va. attorney general sues over alleged egg price gouging

Jul. 15, 2020 04:23 AM EDT
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey filed suit Tuesday against an egg supplier for alleged price gouging during the...

Visitors wearing masks to curb the spread of the coronavirus takes shelter from a sudden rainstorm at a park in Beijing on Saturday, May 23, 2020. New coronavirus cases dropped to zero in China for the first time Saturday but overwhelmed hospitals across Latin America – both in countries lax about lockdowns and those lauded for firm, early confinement. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
The Latest: Pasta factory in Spokane reports virus oubtreak

By The Associated Press May. 23, 2020 04:03 AM EDT

Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John King makes a statement and answers questions from the media following a tour of Fieldale Farms while visiting Gainesville, Ga., Friday, May 15, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
Georgia aims to ease virus spread among Hispanic residents

By Jeff Amy May. 15, 2020 05:34 PM EDT

Farms to destroy 2M chickens due to plant staffing shortages

Apr. 24, 2020 09:33 AM EDT
BALTIMORE (AP) — Coronavirus-related staffing shortages at chicken processing plants will lead farms in Maryland and Delaware to destroy nearly 2 million...

Sales of chicken by processor causes traffic jam at one site

Apr. 17, 2020 03:09 AM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Sales of chicken products by a North Carolina-based processor directly to the public as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak led to a traffic...

FILE- In this Aug. 10, 2015, file photo, turkeys stand in a barn on turkey farm near Manson, Iowa. The nation's first case of highly pathogenic bird flu since 2017 has been found in a South Carolina turkey operation, leading to the killing of more than 30,000 birds. Even a single case of bird flu causes alarm in the poultry industry, which was devastated by a large outbreak in 2015 that led to the killing of millions of chickens and turkeys. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Industry scrambles to stop fatal bird flu in South Carolina

By David Pitt Apr. 10, 2020 02:46 PM EDT