Meat industry
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The meat packing industry handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock. Poultry is not included. This greater part of the entire meat industry is primarily focused on producing meat for human consumption, but it also yields a variety of by-products including hides, feathers, dried blood, and, through the process of rendering, fat such as tallow and protein meals such as meat & bone meal.
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Meatpackers
Big Four
At 1900 the dominating meat packers were:<ref>Google Books</ref>
Big Three
In the 1990s the Big Three were:<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=ho8Te_Qf4NEC&pg=PA49&dq=Big+Four Google Books]</ref>
Today
Current significant meat packers in the United States include:<ref>Hogging the Market: How Powerful Meat Packers are Changing our Food System and What We can do About it</ref>
Beef Packers:
- Tyson Foods
- Cargill Meat Solutions (Excel)
- JBS USA (Swift)
- National Beef
Pork Packers:
- Smithfield Foods
- Tyson Foods
- JBS USA
- Cargill Meat Solutions
Broiler Chickens:
Outside the United States:
- Teys Australia
- JBS S.A. (Brazil)
- BRF S.A. (Brazil)
- Charoen Pokphand Group (Thailand)
- Imperial Cold Storage and Supply Company (South Africa)
- Maple Leaf Foods (Canada)
- Schneider Foods (Canada)
- AFFCO Holdings (New Zealand)
See also
- Continuous inspection
- Labor rights in American meatpacking industry
- Slaughterhouse
- Union Stock Yards, Chicago
- Environmental impact of meat production