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
Continue Reading Line-speed arguments set to be heard by video conference on Oct. 13
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,
Continue Reading Line speeds become a cause in the coronovirus pandemic era
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,
Continue Reading Poultry and swine line speeds are both now federal cases
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,
Continue Reading Letter From The Editor: Line Speeds
