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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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    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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    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 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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    Roosevelt became a supporter of regulation of the meat packing industry, and, on June 30, signed the Meat Inspection Act of 1906. The FMIA mandated the United...
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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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    The Jungle (category Meat packing industry)
    practices in the American meat-packing industry during the early 20th century, which led to sanitation reforms including the Meat Inspection Act. Jurgis...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • trade group associated with the meat packing industry. Federally inspected plants account for over 90% of all the meat processed in Canada. As a key component...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    Oscar F. Mayer (category Businesspeople in the meat packing industry)
    1859 – March 11, 1955) was a German American who founded the processed-meat firm Oscar Mayer that bears his name. Mayer was born in Kösingen (now part...
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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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  • Rendering (animal products) (category Meat industry)
    (1978). Rendering, The Invisible Industry, Aero Publishers. Young, H.H. (1927). By-Products of the Meat-Packing Industry, University of Chicago Press. Franco...
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  • as in meat import, meat processing, meat packing and the production of meat products such as sausages. The following sorts the 20 largest meat companies...
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  • British-Canadian businessman who was a senior executive in the meat-packing industry. Child began his career in Toronto in 1931 with Canada Packers and...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    markets. The city was also a center of the meat-packing industry and an important railroad hub; these industries are also mentioned in the poem. One of Chicago's...
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    J. Ogden Armour (category Businesspeople in the meat packing industry)
    Mather, O.A. (August 17, 1927). "Armour A Leader In Vast Growth of Meat Packing". Chicago Daily Tribune. Steele, John (August 17, 1927). "J. Ogden Armour...
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    Sholom Rubashkin (category Businesspeople in the meat packing industry)
    former CEO of Agriprocessors, a now-bankrupt kosher slaughterhouse and meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa, formerly owned by his father, Aaron Rubashkin...
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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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