Four big meatpackers control most of the beef slaughter. Farm groups say less market competition means lower prices for cattle. But new company Cattlemen’s Heritage plans to build a facility on the ...

The Center for Science in the Public Interest wants schools to stop serving beef. Better safe than sorry, what with mad cow disease turning up in the United States last month, the group reasoned in a ...

For Pennsylvania rancher Michael Kovach, the lack of slaughter facilities near his farm has been a burden for many years. Kovach sells his pork, beef, lamb and chicken onsite at his own farm stand.

CHICAGO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - U.S. meat producer Tyson Foods Inc said on Friday it will soon discontinue cattle slaughter at its Emporia, Kansas, plant as part of a restructuring because the U.S. cattle ...