Nathaniel Popper
By Nathaniel Popper
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News Gruesome Scenes From the Poultry Line Are a Sign of Agriprocessors’ Troubles
POSTVILLE, Iowa — Oscar Andres has worked on the poultry line at the kosher meat producer Agriprocessors here since September and he says that a few dead chickens always make it out of company holding pens and onto the slaughter line conveyor belt. On October 31, though, Andres said that nearly half the chickens coming…
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News Bank Initiates Foreclosure on Kosher Meat Producer
The kosher meat company Agriprocessors has defaulted on a $35 million loan, leading a St. Louis bank to foreclose on the company’s assets. If the foreclosure proceedings move forward, it would appear that they would force Agriprocessors out of business. On October 31, a U.S. District Court judge in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, appointed a temporary…
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News Scientific Advances Looking To Stop ‘Cancer Gene’
For researchers looking at what have become known as the “Jewish breast cancer genes,” much of the last decade has been spent identifying women who have the gene mutations and finding medical procedures to battle the breast and ovarian cancers that result. Now many of the same scientists are striking out in bold new directions,…
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News Kosher Industry Looks to Future in Wake of Agriprocessors Charges
Just weeks before the High Holy Days, when demand for kosher food is at its peak, the kosher industry has been thrown into flux by criminal charges against what was, until recently, the largest supplier of kosher meat in America. Agriprocessors and its owners, Aaron and Sholom Rubashkin, were charged with more than 9,000 counts…
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Breaking News First Criminal Charges Filed Against Agriprocessors Owners
Read an updated version of this article here. The first criminal charges were filed against the owners of the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, Agriprocessors, in connection with a May immigration raid at the plant. The Iowa attorney general filed more than 9,000 separate child labor charges against the company, its human resources managers and members…
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News Workers Speak Out at Nation’s New Leading Kosher Producer
Luis Molina lost part of his middle finger to a 2,000-pound food mixer while working at what is now the country’s largest producer of kosher beef, Alle Processing. Molina, 23, said that the accident, which happened when a fellow employee flipped a power switch, was not a surprise, given that he and others on his…
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News As Industry Faces Criticism, a Look at How the Kosher Sausage Gets Made
For consumers trying to determine where their kosher meat comes from, there has been little public information about the companies that slaughter and process kosher beef and poultry, and even less information about how those companies treat their workers. After a highly publicized immigration raid this past May on the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, Agriprocessors…
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News In Rubashkins’ Backyard, Another Tale of Labor Strife
At the farthest end of the Brooklyn Wholesale Meat Market, just past Chow Trading Co. and Lancaster Quality Pork, an inconspicuous black-and-white sign marks the presence of a very conspicuous tenant. The building houses the local warehouse for Agriprocessors, the largest kosher meat producer in the country. Agriprocessors is best known for its slaughterhouse in…
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