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Letter from The Editor: Pork producers strike back

By Dan Flynn on June 7, 2021
Opinion

In 2020,   the food and employee safety issue known as line speed became a cause celeb, cited by the union and other activist groups in all sorts of ways.  It seemed to come up…
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With or without USDA support, hog producers push line-speed case to the appellate court

By Dan Flynn on June 3, 2021

It looks like the line-speed issue involving market hogs is going down the Big River for a decision by the Eighth U.S. Circuit  Court of Appeals in St. Louis with or without USDA’s help.

On…
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Is UFCW v. USDA the end or just the beginning of the great line speed debate?

By Dan Flynn on May 4, 2021

Seaboard Foods wants to intervene in UFCW v. USDA “to move to stay the effect of the Court’s forthcoming judgment by 10.5 months as to Seaboard, and for the purpose of perfecting an appeal” with…
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Judge rules line speeds for market hogs must be slowed, stays order for 90 days

By Dan Flynn on April 6, 2021

Federal Judge Joan N. Ericksen last October held a 64-minute video hearing and then took the line speed case under advisement. Five months later, she has published a 68-page ruling to resume the speed limits …
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Letter to the Editor: Sound science should reflect relevant data

By Guest Contributor on December 9, 2020
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Dear Editor,

In her letter “Letter to the Editor: Industry supporter out of line on line speeds,” (https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2020/11/letter-to-the-editor-industry-supporter-out-of-line-on-line-speeds/) Jessica Chapman offers her ad hominem opinion that I am “an industry supporter whose…
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Line-speed arguments set to be heard by video conference on Oct. 13

By Dan Flynn on September 30, 2020

Ahead of her Oct. 13 video conference on swine slaughter line speed, a federal judge in Minnesota is welcoming outside parties to offer their opinions about the case.

Judge Joan N. Ericksen did not yell…
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Line speeds become a cause in the coronovirus pandemic era

By Dan Flynn on August 4, 2020

Line speeds for those with waivers from USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service don’t increase the speeds all that much, but the issue has reached celebrity status thanks to COVID-19.

In the last month, however,…
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Poultry and swine line speeds are both now federal cases

By Dan Flynn on March 17, 2020

For more than six weeks, a federal judge in Minnesota has been considering whether to dismiss a union challenge of USDA’s regulation of line speeds for swine slaughter.

On the West Coast, in Northern California,…
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Letter From The Editor: Line Speeds

By Dan Flynn on January 12, 2020
Opinion

Everything I know about “line speeds,” I learned late last year in the Netherlands by spending an afternoon inside the VanDrie Group’s vast veal slaughter and processing facilities.

With a group of international journalists,…
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