Gennady Daskal is no stranger to blood and guts. Until last month, the 27-year-old was working in an abattoir in central Ukraine, killing pigs and cows for a living. Now, after being conscripted, he is preparing to enter a very different kind of slaughterhouse. As part of a rookie infantry assault unit, he is being […]
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Would new Aiken chicken plant mean closure of West Columbia slaughterhouse?
One of the biggest poultry production companies in the Southeast is trying to open a large chicken processing plant near Aiken that would be just 50 miles down the road from an aging and much-maligned slaughterhouse the company owns in West Columbia. That has sparked questions about whether House of Raeford will close the West […]
Steer escapes from slaughterhouse, goes on rampage before it’s killed by Nebraska cops
A steer escaped from a slaughterhouse and went on a chaotic rampage through the streets of Omaha, Nebraska, police told news outlets. Officers responded to a call from Nebraska Beef, on the southeast side of Omaha, at about 10:47 a.m. Tuesday, March 19, after a cow escaped from the facility, police told the Omaha World-Herald. […]
OSHA finds Mississippi slaughterhouse responsible for death of teen sucked into machinery
A Mississippi slaughterhouse that supplies chicken to Chick-fil-A is directly to blame for the death of a 16-year-old worker who was sucked into equipment in July and killed within minutes, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday. OSHA, an agency within the U.S. Labor Department, said that it had cited Georgia-based Mar-Jac Poultry for […]