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Shuttered Meat Plant Edges Back Into Business, but Its Town Is Still Struggling

Dec. 4, 2008
A bankruptcy trustee reopened a kosher meat plant in Iowa on Wednesday in a move intended to comfort a town that has been economically crippled since 389 illegal immigrants were arrested at the plant in May.
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Agriprocessors woes hurting kosher sales

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A federal grand jury has indicted an Iowa meatpacking company where a raid found hundreds of illegal aliens were working and its former chief executive officer.

Immigration raid linked to kosher decline

POSTVILLE, Iowa, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The declining supply of kosher meat supplies nationwide is due in part to an immigration raid on an Agriprocessors kosher-meat plant in Iowa, observers say.

Company woes affect kosher meat supply

POSTVILLE, Ind., Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Legal and financial problems at one of the largest U.S. kosher meatpacking plants have triggered a nationwide shortage of kosher meat.

Kosher plant placed in federal receivership

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- A judge in Iowa has placed a kosher meatpacking company in receivership after it defaulted on a $35 million loan and allegedly wrote $1.4 million in bad checks.

Under-fire Iowa meat plant searched

POSTVILLE, Iowa, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- State authorities have searched a Postville, Iowa, meatpacking plant that has been accused of child labor law violations, officials said.

Ex-supervisor admits helping hire illegals

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- A former supervisor of an Iowa meatpacking plant has admitted he helped hire illegal immigrants.

Illegal workers tell of plant conditions

POSTVILLE, Iowa, July 27 (UPI) -- Illegal immigrants who worked in an Iowa kosher meatpacking plant before the facility was raided told officials about poor conditions there, papers show.

Giraffe milk, meat confirmed kosher

RAMAT GAN, Israel, June 6 (UPI) -- Jewish authorities in Israel have ruled that giraffe milk and meat qualify as kosher food.

Slaughterhouse owner denies allegations

NEW YORK, June 6 (UPI) -- The New York owner of the country's largest kosher slaughterhouse has denied allegations of unethical labor practices at the business.

Up to 700 illegals arrested in Iowa

POSTVILLE, Iowa, May 12 (UPI) -- U.S. agents raided an Iowa meatpacking plant Monday, arresting up to 700 people suspected of being illegal immigrants or criminals, authorities said.

Less meat consumption, less renal cancer

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Bush meat could bring Ebola to Britain

LONDON, June 23 (UPI) -- A tropical disease researcher says the growing illegal trade in African bush meat in Britain puts the country at risk for an outbreak of Ebola or Marburg.

British activists decry meat imports

LONDON, March 3 (UPI) -- A British coalition of animal welfare groups and environmental health advocates want a clampdown on so-called "bushmeat" from Africa.

Better living through ... kosher meats

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Some U.S. kosher meat producers are capitalizing on the recent mad cow diseases scare by highlighting the extra care they take in the slaughterhouse.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler