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- Agriprocessors Kosher Iowa Plant to Stay Open
- Agriprocessors is still keeping secret the identities of at least twelve bidders on its Postville, Iowa slaughterhouse, the site of the company's recent legal troubles. But yesterday the company's court-appointed Chapter 11 Operating Trustee, Joseph Sarachek, said the bidders have all agreed to keep the business open in Postville, and...
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Food Roundup: Monsanto and Dole Super Veggies, Alfalfa Recall, Alfalfa Lawsuit, and More
- Monsanto and Dole to improve vegetables -- Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc. is collaborating with Monsanto to breed tastier, more attractive and more nutritious versions of broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce and spinach. Unlike Monsanto corn and soy, however, these products will not be genetically modified, but merely bred through natural methods. The...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Agriprocessors Verdict, Pending Immigration Charges, and a Bizarre Response
- Though a jury found Agriprocessors former vice president Sholom Rubashkin guilty on 86 out of 91 financial fraud-related charges, Rubashkin says he's innocent. And his friend Aaron Goldsmith says Rubashkin is innocent, too. Well, sort of. "Nobody's proven he had money on the side or did things...
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
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- Food Roundup: Iran Coke Boycott, Death Over Melamine, New Agriprocessors Charges, and More
- Iranian government boycotts "Zionist" products like Coke -- The Iranian company Khoshgovar, which is licensed to make and sell Coke, Sprite and Fanta in Iran, has been asked to clarify its ties with the Coca-Cola company. Since Israel's recent attack on Gaza, the Iranian government has been boycotting not only...
- Blog posts 2009-01-22
- Anticlimactic End to High Profile Agriprocessors Immigration Raid
- The May, 2008 immigration raids of an Agriprocessors kosher meat plant put Postville, Iowa on the map. The raid revealed nearly 400 undocumented immigrants working at the plant and gained national media attention. But now all of the immigration charges have been dropped against former manager Sholom...
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Hundreds protest immigration raid in small-town America
- POSTVILLE, Iowa, AFP — Led by 43 women with electronic tracking bracelets on their ankles, hundreds of people from around the country marched down main street here Sunday to protest the biggest immigration raid in US history at a kosher meat plant that has split this tiny Iowa town asunder....
- Research articles 2008-07-27
- Sara Lee Ditches Kosher Meat Amid Supply Crisis
- Sara Lee announced plans to close its kosher meat-processing facility in Chicago by the end of January, 2009, and to discontinue its kosher meat brands, Best's Kosher, Sinai Kosher, Shofar and Wilno. The company has been shedding brands lately to concentrate on its most profitable divisions. "The Kosher meat business...
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Food Roundup: China Ingredient Blacklist, Brown-Forman's Good Quarter, Raids Hurt Meatpackers, And More
- China to Issue Food-Additives Blacklist -- In the wake of the melamine scandal, China says it will identify banned additives. The government also said it would step up product testing. [Source: AP] Distiller Brown-Forman's Profits Up -- The maker of Jack Daniels, Southern Comfort and Finlandia saw...
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
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