If you’ve ever eyed that strange material lingering under your store-bought meats, wondering about its purpose, you’re not alone. Though just about every kind of packaged poultry or meat contains one ...

In 1906, Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, about conditions in industrial meat packing plants, was published. It was a ...

A recent bill authored by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Cal.) seeks to address the enormous power gap in the meat sector and make processing plants safer for workers. The bill has ...

Knowing whether or not to remove raw meat from its packaging before storing is essential for safe food handling and lasting freshness, but it's something many home cooks are iffy on. Because of the ...

More than 100 children as young as 13 years old cleaned dangerous meat processing equipment using hazardous chemicals for a sanitation company contracted by major meat and poultry producers, the U.S.

STAPLES, Minn. — Parker Witulski grew up in agriculture in southeast Nebraska and wanted to find a way to stay in agriculture in his career path. When he turned 16, he landed a job at a local meat ...

Meat and poultry processors are under increasing pressure to balance throughput, yield and cut quality as product variability ...

What does a meat diaper do, anyway? Absorbent “meat diapers” soak up meat juices to prevent mess and the spread of bacteria. The pads use food-safe silica gel or cellulose wrapped in perforated, ...