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    The meat-packing industry (also spelled meatpacking industry or meat packing industry) handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution...
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    The meat industry are the people and companies engaged in modern industrialized livestock agriculture for the production, packing, preservation and marketing...
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    Cudahy Packing Company (/ˈkʌdəheɪ/ CUD-ə-hey) was an American meat packing company established in 1887 as the Armour-Cudahy Packing Company and incorporated...
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    The Golden Triangle of Meat-packing or Golden Triangle of Beef refers to the influence of meat-packing in three southwestern Kansas counties and their...
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    Armour and Company (category Meat packing companies based in Omaha, Nebraska)
    an American company and was one of the five leading firms in the meat packing industry. It was founded in Chicago, in 1863, by the Armour brothers led...
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  • The Smithfield Packing Company sells meat products such as ham, ground pork, pork chops, bacon, and lunch meat. It sells its products worldwide. The company...
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  • 1960s and 1970s were difficult times for the meat packing industry. Competition was fierce and the industry had become high volume, low margin. Profitability...
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    JBS USA (redirect from Swift Packing)
    detailing the relationship between the Trump administration and the meat packing industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report describes the CEO of JBS...
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    Gustavus Franklin Swift (category Businesspeople in the meat packing industry)
    1839 – March 29, 1903) was an American business executive. He founded a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during the late 19th century, over which he presided...
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  • American meat packing industry. According to scholars of the American meat packing industry, despite federal regulation through OSHA and industry oversight...
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    The Jungle (category Meat packing industry)
    practices in the American meat-packing industry during the early 20th century. This led to sanitation reforms including the Meat Inspection Act and other...
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  • Branch house (building) (category Meat packing industry)
    was a meat industry building that combined a sales office and warehouse for the disposition of packing-house products at a distance from the packing plant...
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    virus took place in factories operated by the meat packing industry and the poultry processing industry. These outbreaks affected dozens of plants, leading...
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    conditions in the meat packing industry in the United States and was a major factor in the establishment of the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act...
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    Philip Danforth Armour (category Businesspeople in the meat packing industry)
    Howard Copeland. "The development of Chicago as a center of the meat packing industry." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 10.3 (1923): 253–273. in...
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  • in the Spanish–American War. General Nelson Miles called the adulterated meat "embalmed beef," and the scandal also became alternatively known as the Embalmed...
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    Frozen food (redirect from Defrosting meat)
    Liverpool and Manchester. The techniques were later expanded to the meat-packing industry. From 1929, Clarence Birdseye introduced "flash freezing" to the...
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    brought to notoriety by Upton Sinclair in his exposé on the American meat packing industry titled The Jungle. Bubbly Creek originates near 38th Street, at...
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  • Hatfield Meats is primarily a pork meat packing company based in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. It produces over 1,200 different fresh and manufactured pork products...
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  • aspects of the meat packing industry. The committee was formed in response to complaints by cattle producers and ranchers of abuse by major meat packers. It...
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    virus took place in factories operated by the meat packing industry and the poultry processing industry. These outbreaks affected multiple plants, leading...
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  • George A. Hormel (category Meat packing industry)
    packinghouse. Hormel married Lilian Belle Gleason in 1892. He established his meat packing company in 1891 and established a food company that continues to thrive...
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    Ice trade (redirect from Ice industry)
    railroad industry, allowing the meat packing industry around Chicago and Cincinnati to slaughter cattle locally, before sending the dressed meat onward...
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    practices rampant in the meat-packing industry, it kept the public's attention on the extreme unhygienic conditions in meat processing plants. Sinclair...
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  • the company to maximize its own profits. Typically applied in the meat-packing industry, it is when a company agrees to purchase goods at least two weeks...
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    Jimmy Dean (category Businesspeople in the meat packing industry)
    Her father, the country and western singer, is chairman of the Jimmy Dean Meat Company in Dallas." Hosler, Karen (September 3, 1991). "Lifestyle of the...
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    refrigeration played a vital role in the distribution of food. The meat-packing industry relied heavily on natural ice in the 1880s and continued to rely...
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    Jay Catherwood Hormel (category Businesspeople in the meat packing industry)
    Jay Catherwood Hormel (September 11, 1892 – August 30, 1954) was the son of George A. Hormel, founder of Hormel Foods, and was head of the company from...
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    Union Stockyards (Omaha) (category Meatpacking industry in Omaha, Nebraska)
    Omaha overtook Chicago as the nation's largest livestock market and meat packing industry center in 1955, a title which it held onto until 1971. The 116-year-old...
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  • The Amalgamated Meat Cutters (AMC), officially the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, 1897–1979, was a labor union that represented...
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