For more than a decade, poultry farmers across the U.S. and North Carolina fought for financial protections from the big agriculture companies that they not only rely on but sometimes fear. Less than ...

Big poultry wants Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to accelerate slaughter lines. The change would come at the expense of both workers and animals. Yet, the National Chicken Council wants workers to ...

There’s just no denying that Big Poultry is really, really big. The biggest poultry companies in the U.S.—Tyson Foods, Pilgrim’s Pride, Perdue Farms, and Sanderson Farms—control roughly 60 percent of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Living near a poultry farm in North Carolina can reduce a home’s value by up to 30%, according to a Duke University study. That ...

Big Poultry North Carolina’s poultry farms are everywhere. The state cloaks big poultry in secrecy to the point regulators don’t even know where most of the farms are located. Neighbors complain about ...

Oklahoma’s attorney general accused his state’s governor of being “bought and paid for by out-of-state Big Poultry corporations” in their ongoing dispute over pollution of the Illinois River by ...