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EBay to Pay $3 Million Penalty for Employees Sending Live Cockroaches, Fetal Pig to Bloggers

EBay agreed to pay a $3 million criminal penalty after employees engaged in a harassment campaign against two bloggers for their coverage of the company, including mailing them live cockroaches and a fetal pig. The e-commerce giant was charged with two counts of stalking through interstate travel, two counts of stalking through electronic communications services, one count of witness tampering and one count of obstruction of justice. Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Farmers Work to Cool Livestock and Chickens as Heat Gets Extreme

The health of animals and farmers’ incomes are under threat as temperatures soar in the U.S. The health of animals and farmers’ incomes are under threat as temperatures soar in the U.S. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content…

Farmers Work to Cool Livestock and Chickens in Sweltering Conditions

The health of animals and farmers’ incomes are under threat as temperatures soar in the U.S. The health of animals and farmers’ incomes are under threat as temperatures soar in the U.S. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content…

When Your Neighbor Is a Farm With 2,500 Hogs

Local lawmakers and state courts have taken steps to shield large-scale hog barns from lawsuits—and paved the way for them to expand. Local lawmakers and state courts have taken steps to shield large-scale hog barns from lawsuits—and paved the way for them to expand. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their…

America Has Too Much Pork

A glut of pigs is squeezing hog farmers and meat companies, but consumers have yet to see lower prices. A glut of pigs is squeezing hog farmers and meat companies, but consumers have yet to see lower prices. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are…

Pig-Heart Transplants in Two Brain-Dead People Offer Chance to Improve Tests for Pig Viruses

Two brain-dead individuals received genetically modified pig-heart transplants, part of growing efforts by scientists who want to improve tests on pig organs for pig viruses and gather data that could help launch clinical trials of animal-to-human organ transplants.Scientists at NYU Langone Health, where the research studies took place in June and July, said the pig hearts were flown from a facility hundreds of miles away and then transplanted into two recently deceased individuals, Lawrence Kelly, 72, a former welder…

Smithfield Foods, Citing High Costs of Operating in California, to Close Pork Plant

Smithfield Foods Inc., the largest pork processor in the U.S. by volume, is closing an 1,800-person plant in California and shrinking the size of its hog herd in the region, saying the cost of doing business in the state wasn’t worth it. Smithfield, owned by Hong Kong-based pork conglomerate WH Group Ltd. 288 -2.60% , said Friday that it would close the plant in Vernon, Calif., just outside of Los Angeles, in early 2023, citing higher…

McDonald’s Shareholders Vote Down Carl Icahn’s Activist Board Slate

McDonald’s Corp. MCD 1.86% shareholders voted down two director nominees backed by activist investor Carl Icahn as part of his effort to change the way the fast food giant’s pork suppliers treat hogs.The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that McDonald’s MCD 1.86% was poised to prevail. Shareholders Thursday re-elected the company’s full 12-member board, McDonald’s…