Craig Franken was the second slaughterhouse worker to die of coronavirus in the first big surge of the pandemic at Smithfield Foods in Sioux Falls…
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Smithfield Foods says it has no position on the slaughterhouse ban that some well-to-do Sioux Falls residents have placed on the city’s November ballot in…
Sioux Falls—Wieners for the World! Trevor Mitchell does some math and says doubling Sioux Falls’s slaughterhouses could lead to nearly one tenth of America’s pork…
Why did Governor Kristi Noem fall from careful local-control neutrality to vocal anti-democracy support for the Wholestone Farms slaughterhouse in Sioux Falls? The Governor has…
During the latest leg of her national book tour last week, Kristi Noem lied on Newsmax about South Dakota’s acceptance of expanded federal unemployment benefits…
A couple years ago, Smithfield Foods told us there’d be a meat shortage if they shut down their slaughterhouse in Sioux Falls for a couple-three…
Remember how those thieving meatpackers lied to us about meat shortages at the start of the coronavirus pandemic? Smithfield and other Big Meaters didn’t just…
Our legislature has hoghoused—i.e., “amended extensively“—just two bills so far. But Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) is proposing an honest-to-goodness hoghouse bill to make work…
Smithfield Denies Wrongdoing But Pays Paltry OSHA Fine for Coronavirus Hazards; Workers Disappointed
In September 2020, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Smithfield Foods $13,494, the maximum allowed by law, for failing to protect its Sioux Falls…