How to Use meatpacking in a Sentence
meatpacking
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End of the line for Farmer John’s meatpacking plant in Vernon.
— Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022 -
The meatpacking industry sues the USDA to block the tests.
— Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 6 June 2021 -
The outbreak is believed to be tied to meatpacking plants.
— Caroline Linton, CBS News, 28 May 2020 -
Now, a dozen years later, a smaller meatpacking plant had opened where the former plant used to be.
— Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2021 -
At a small Oregon meatpacking plant, first came fear, then a plan Working from home, in your bed?
— Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2020 -
Sabra Lewis left her job as wine director of the Standard, in the meatpacking district, in 2019.
— New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021 -
Sonia Villanueva Áviles worked on the meatpacking line at Rochelle Foods for more than a decade.
— Derek Kravitz, Georgia Gee, Madison McVan, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2021 -
In 1995, the partners opened a second Fairway, in a former meatpacking plant in Harlem.
— Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 17 June 2020 -
At the time of the executive order, 16 of the 34 meatpacking plants that had closed due to coronavirus were still shut down.
— Rachel Axon and Sky Chadde, USA TODAY, 19 June 2020 -
His state is home to many meatpacking plants, as is Minnesota.
— Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 4 Feb. 2021 -
The state is one of the nation’s top producers of corn and hogs, and also has a large meatpacking industry.
— Ken Thomas, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020 -
Mr. Dawkins grew up in Louisville, Ill., where his family ran a grocery store and meatpacking plant.
— Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 2 July 2017 -
Labor is one that permeates every level—at the farms, at the meatpacking plants, and even in getting the products to the store shelves.
— Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2021 -
The top three outbreak sites include two Ohio prisons and a meatpacking plant in South Dakota.
— Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2020 -
The area once was the center of the slaughterhouse and meatpacking industries in Cleveland.
— Marvin Fong, cleveland.com, 20 Mar. 2018 -
And that wasn’t the only meatpacking plant impacted by the spread of the novel coronavirus.
— Chase Purdy, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2020 -
The live music venue and cocktail bar in New York City’s meatpacking district offered its last show on June 13.
— Judy Cantor-Navas, Billboard, 16 June 2017 -
For Eldon, jobs came from meatpacking, based in the nearby coal-mining town of Ottumwa.
— Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023 -
Her boyfriend, who worked with her at the meatpacking plant, contacted police.
— Greeley Tribune, The Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2017 -
For the most part, that prediction hasn’t been borne out in places where there are mandates, such as in the meatpacking and airline industries.
— Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2022 -
Strauss Brands has sold the land the company planned to build a new meatpacking plant on after canceling the project earlier this year.
— Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2022 -
Another study pinned about 8% of all cases and about 4% of all deaths by mid-summer to the meatpacking industry.
— USA Today, 8 Apr. 2021 -
First, the Para state deal covers only the slaughterhouses owned by the meatpacking companies that signed on to it.
— Jesse Hyde, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019 -
No one knows when the coronavirus first arrived in the Panhandle’s meatpacking plants.
— Lauren Hilgers, The New Yorker, 10 July 2020 -
The 65-year-old meatpacking company next door to the killer's former house continues to survive, but by only the slimmest of margins.
— Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 29 Oct. 2017 -
That's where locations -- like a crowded night club, a church service or a meatpacking plant -- come into play.
— Andrea Kane, CNN, 12 June 2020 -
The brick and limestone gates, once a small piece of the sprawling Armour meatpacking campus, are among the last vestiges of an industry that once defined South St. Paul.
— Erin Adler, Star Tribune, 15 Feb. 2021 -
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. was the city's largest employer, and a now-empty meatpacking plant also offered good wages.
— Jill Rothenberg, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2017 -
Economists say there is some truth to the claim that a surge of working-class immigrant labor could put downward pressure on certain jobs, such as meatpacking and gardening.
— Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024 -
Brunn went door to door on Lombard Street trying to sell pickling spices and black pepper to delicatessen owners, then slowly broke into the meatpacking and pickle-making markets.
— Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2024
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