Madeline Perry, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

Amid price-fixing indictment for poultry processors, growers say they continue to struggle

While poultry processors have seen large profits, poultry growers — the farmers that care for the chickens while they’re maturing — have not shared in the wealth, current and former growers said.

By madeline-perry-and-sky-chadde-midwest-center-for-investigative-reporting, Madeline Perry, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting and Sky Chadde, Investigate Midwest

/ 10 Jul 2020

Amid price-fixing indictment for poultry processors, growers say they continue to struggle

Feds could do more to investigate forced labor claims in the seafood industry, GAO report finds

The federal government struggles to evaluate forced labor allegations in the seafood industry, according to a Government Accountability Office report released this month.

By Madeline Perry, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 24 Jun 2020

Feds could do more to investigate forced labor claims in the seafood industry, GAO report finds

Cows likely to be culprit in 2019 E. coli outbreak in romaine lettuce, FDA finds

Cows in the Salinas Valley area of California have been blamed for three E. coli outbreaks in late 2019 that sickened 188 people in at least 27 states, according to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration report released in May.

By Madeline Perry, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 11 Jun 2020

Madeline Perry, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

Amid price-fixing indictment for poultry processors, growers say they continue to struggle

Feds could do more to investigate forced labor claims in the seafood industry, GAO report finds

Cows likely to be culprit in 2019 E. coli outbreak in romaine lettuce, FDA finds

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