RANTOUL, Ill. (WAND) - A Rantoul hog-processing plant has been cited after two pigs that were supposed to be unconscious for slaughtering were almost put in a scalding tank while awake. That is ...

Pork shipments from a North Carolina pork processing plant are now blocked from entering Mexico. The plant, located in Tar Heel, N.C., is a Smithfield foods plant and is the largest in the world. The ...

Instead, the USDA’s new rules are focused on making the euphemistically named “hog processing” industry faster than ever. According to Reuters, the new rules mean companies can slaughter pigs as ...

MASON CITY, IOWA — After nearly six hours of debate, it took attendees only several seconds — in near silence — before realizing the city's vote on a proposed hog processing plant came out as a tie, ...

Given the dismal national record of pig processing plants, Ranchland Packing Co.’s proposed pig plant is potentially very problematic for Butte. While the company and some Butte officials tout the ...