Items Tagged with 'American Association of Meat Processors'

A new proposal to reduce wastewater discharges from meat and poultry slaughterhouses and processing plants has the Environmental Protection Agency facing criticism from both environmentalists and the meat industry.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says he’s against a proposal to be more restrictive with future rewrites of the Thrifty Food Plan, the calculation used to determine Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

While many large meat processing plants slowed down or temporarily closed due to the spread of COVID-19 among their employees, many small, local meat lockers are seeing a boom in demand for custom butchering.