One is the Foster Farms poultry plant in California's Merced County. Despite what it says was political pressure, the small county's health department closed down the plant in Livingston for one ...

Foster Farms on Tuesday night plans to close its chicken processing plant in Livingston, California, for a week of cleaning, bowing to an edict from county public health officials who ordered the ...

Foster Farms, California's biggest chicken producer, has been accused of poisoning people with salmonella bacteria. After an outbreak last fall, the U.S. Department of Agriculture threatened to ...

The new ownership at Foster Farms plans to retain its 12,000-strong workforce and the company’s mix of poultry products, Chief Executive Officer Donnie Smith said. “There’s no reason for ...

In June 2015, the animal rights organization Mercy for Animals sent two investigators to work as undercover employees at a slaughterhouse run by Foster Farms. They documented workers throwing live ...

Foster Farms denies any wrongdoing; in a statement, a spokesman told me that allegations of inhumane treatment “are without merit and a disservice to the thousands of Foster Farms team members ...

California's Foster Farms is the first major broiler chicken producer in the nation to carry the American Humane Association seal, ensuring consumers that its farms meet the nonprofit's stringent ...

Foster Farms will close part of its turkey processing in Turlock and lay off 519 employees. The closure will take effect May 9 at the plant that handles fresh turkeys, the company said in a news ...

Foster Farms, the 11th largest chicken company in the US, advertises meat from animals raised with supposedly “better care.” On its packaging, chickens are shown roaming free on pasture ...

Foster Farms announced Tuesday that it has been sold to a Connecticut holding company, ending the poultry processor’s 83 years of family ownership. Atlas Holdings bought the Livingston-based ...

But while that bill awaits a public hearing, Foster Farms is undertaking a major expansion of its Aurora site where chicks are brought in and live for about 45 days before being shipped out for ...