DES MOINES, Iowa — The COVID-19 pandemic has raised questions around the power some of the largest meat packing plants in the United States have.

Local Iowa officials worry that President Donald Trump's executive order requiring meatpacking plants to remain open could threaten the health of 2,800 workers at the Tyson plant that closed last ...

Trump’s order to open meat plants brings anxiety to one Iowa town where 90% of COVID-19 ... as the novel coronavirus has both slowed and closed meatpacking processing plants across the ...

A new report on the impact of the coronavirus on workers at meat processing plants has found that 87% of people infected were racial or ethnic minorities — but it also notes that the data was ...

A U.S. House subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis has launched an investigation looking into coronavirus outbreaks at meat processing plants throughout the country, including Iowa.

Cattlemen’s Heritage is planning to build a $325 million beef packing plant in southwest Iowa’s Mills ... or Fareway make a similar move to Walmart by investing in localized meat processing.

Outbreaks of the fast-spreading virus have hampered production at four Iowa meat packing plants, including the one in Perry where 730 workers — or 58% of the workforce — tested positive for ...

Iowa Catholics pray at meat-packing plant for workers who died of COVID-19. News. Members of the deacon formation class in the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, ...

Meagan Steger uses a rollstock machine to package cuts of meat at Edgewood Locker, 609 W. Union St., in Edgewood, Iowa, on Wednesday, May 13, 2020.

Iowa joins Minnesota and North Carolina as the only states ... “That would include anybody that is U.S.D.A.-inspected — so it’s going to be big meat packing plants — but not one of ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Governors ... In western Michigan, a JBS meat packing plant that was closed over the weekend reopened Monday. Sixty people there have tested positive for the coronavirus, ...