Calif. meatpacking plant that recalled beef cited for humane violations last year

FRESNO, Calif. — Records show a California beef processor that recalled tons of hamburger meat due to salmonella fears was slapped with humane handling violations in a government review of meatpacking plants last year.

‘Locally slaughtered’ unlikely to join ‘free-range’ and ‘grass-fed’ as latest beef buzz words

LOMPOC, Calif. — The end of the line for cattle raised at Elizabeth Poett’s spread on the Central Coast used to come at an inland slaughterhouse after a five-hour drive crammed in a trailer with other spooked animals.

Iowa city cautiously hopes slaughterhouse sale will turn its fortunes around

POSTVILLE, Iowa — Life in Postville wasn’t easy before federal agents raided the area’s largest employer and detained 389 people on immigration charges.

Partners agree to buy northeast Iowa kosher slaughterhouse raided by immigration agents

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The president of a Canadian plastics plant and two others filed court documents Tuesday to buy a struggling kosher slaughterhouse in northeast Iowa that was the site of a massive raid by immigration agents last year.

Divided over budget, California legislature finds common ground on farm animal welfare issues

FRESNO, Calif. — California voters’ landslide support last November of an initiative on the treatment of farm animals appears to have helped a state legislature bitterly divided over the budget find common ground.

Bells toll as Iowa town marks anniversary of immigration raid that upended local economy

POSTVILLE, Iowa — Hundreds gathered in the small northeast Iowa town of Postville on Tuesday to mark the one-year anniversary of a huge immigration raid and reflect on the community’s difficulty in recovering from the arrests.

Molly the cow may get a new lease on life after escaping from a NYC slaughterhouse

NEW YORK — A cow nicknamed Molly who escaped from a New York City slaughterhouse may have a new lease on life. New York police said the all-black cow got out from Musa Hala, Inc. about 1 p.m. Wednesday, a slaughterhouse where animals are butchered according to religious restrictions.

Newspaper columnist shot to death in front of his home in northern Mexico

MEXICO CITY — Gunmen killed a columnist for a newspaper in a northern Mexican state plagued by kidnappings and drug violence, authorities said Tuesday. A motive hadn’t been determined.

2 Iowa towns offer different perspectives on immigration raids; both want feds to alter policy

POSTVILLE, Iowa — For immigrant advocates, the raid on a meatpacking plant in Postville last May was evidence of all that is wrong with large-scale arrests of illegal workers.

Uttar Pradesh slaughterhouses to produce electricity from waste

LUCKNOW - Over 200 slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh will have biogas plants within a year if the plans of the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) go as per schedule. They will use the waste that now make the environment around the slaughterhouses notoriously filthy and turn it into electricity and manure.