Perdue, Butterball, and Costco are among the companies that break food safety rules. Industry reps say contaminated chicken is not a danger.

AlaTrade Foods, an Alabama-based poultry processing company, laid off 165 employees at its Phenix City plant. The layoffs, effective March 27, are under scrutiny for a potential violation of the WARN ...

Commercial chicken farmers literally bet the farm, spending millions of dollars on land and enormous chicken houses to raise birds they never own — putting their livelihoods in the hands of a single ...

MONTEREY, Tenn. (WTVF) — Last week, Perdue Farms announced they would be closing their massive chicken processing plant in Monterey. All 433 employees will lose their jobs. "Some people were kind of ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) -The United States Department of Labor has reached a settlement agreement with a Hattiesburg poultry processing plant that requires the company to pay $164,814 in fines and ...

A roadside sign outside Nickerson, Nebraska, north of Fremont, in April 2016. Groups that oppose Costco's plans to build a chicken-processing plant in Fremont say they're concerned the project will ...

Chicken pot pies sell faster – and for a higher price per pound – than chickens. Sausage brings in more money per pound than a side of pork. And beef processed into jerky is more profitable by weight ...