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The potential footprint of Denver’s Initiated Ordinance 309 to ban slaughterhouses extends beyond city limits.

The Biden administration announced Monday it would use $1 billion from the American Rescue Plan to help small and independent meat processors.

The pandemic slowed food supply lines across the country as workers at major meat processing plants got sick. That meant more ranchers were turning to local butchers for processing, and consumers were turning to them for meat. But more business at local meat shops means less room to process wild game for hunters.

Panic buying has slowed down considerably since this spring, but one thing still lingering is higher demand for meat that's easier for people to cook themselves.

A union representing workers at JBS USA-owned meatpacking plant in Greeley where six workers died of COVID-19 and hundreds more were infected staged a protest Wednesday, claiming that federal officials should have fined the company more for its alleged failure to provide safe working conditions.

Virginia has become the first state in the nation to require businesses to to adopt protections for workers against the coronavirus.

The fishing port of New Bedford, Mass., is protecting essential workers during the pandemic with a set of enforceable guidelines that experts say could be a model for other cities.

As the pandemic wreaks havoc on the meat industry, hog farmers anticipate they'll soon be forced to euthanize millions of pigs unable to be sent for processing.

College student Erika Cardenas never wanted to take an online class. But the coronavirus didn't leave her with much of a choice."I've been avoiding online…