A significant amount of scientific literature exists about efficacy, safety, and humane stunning using gases to render pigs ...

Pork shipments from a North Carolina pork processing plant are now blocked from entering Mexico. The plant, located in Tar Heel, N.C., is a Smithfield foods plant and is the largest in the world. The ...

Opponents of Triumph Foods' proposed hog-processing plant in East Moline will hold a River Rally at Riverside Saturday. The rally will be from 4-7 p.m. at Riverside United MethodistLife Center, 2410 ...

A new study from the Iowa Pork Producers Association finds the hog industry contributed more than $15-billion to Iowa’s economy last year. Association spokesman Kevin Hall says the study, which is ...

This week, WHQR is exploring the growth and impact of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in our series "CAFO Country." As we reported, eastern North Carolina is a national leader for ...

The Rantoul Foods hog processing plant was cited by the USDA for violation of the humane methods act. Our Communities Editor The Rantoul Foods hog processing plant was cited by the USDA for violation ...

Jim Jendruczek, president and managing partner of Rantoul Foods, in the carcass washer. Our Communities Editor Jim Jendruczek, president and managing partner of Rantoul Foods, in the carcass washer.

An unnamed hog processing operation is in the works to build a 600,000-square-foot facility on an open lot south of Mason City on South Pierce Avenue, creating 2,000 new jobs in its first two years, ...

I heard through relatives in Butte that a pig processing plant will be opened in Butte and that the city manager thinks it will only stink during hot weather. I have news for him, the pig farms and ...