Tyson Foods is the largest meatpacker in the U.S., but it still operates like a family business in at least one crucial way.
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Razorback-shaped Tyson chicken nuggets coming to a tailgate near you
Could the Arkansas tailgate trend of the 2024-2025 season be Razorback-shaped frozen chicken nuggets from Tyson Foods?
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Tyson suspends John R. Tyson as finance chief over DWI arrest
Tyson got off with an apology in 2022 after police found him passed out in a stranger’s bed. This time around, he wasn’t so lucky.
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Arkansas journalist Alice Driver nominated for another James Beard Media Award
The winner of a 2023 James Beard Media Award, Arkansas journalist Alice Driver has been nominated again, this time for her reporting on lobster fishery workers in Honduras.
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Walmart, Tyson distribute food linked to prison labor, AP finds
The article includes an interview with a woman who worked at an Arkansas prison farm and was paid “two rolls of toilet paper a week, toothpaste and a few menstrual pads each month.”
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Best and Worst 2023
Here’s the thing about 2023: You have to grade it on a curve. Things weren’t great; they could have been a whole lot worse.
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Tyson under investigation for potential child labor violations at poultry plants
A spectacular piece of NYT reporting leads to a federal investigation of Tyson Foods and Purdue Farms over hiring children to work in slaughterhouses. Meanwhile, states are rolling back child labor laws.
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Tyson Foods closing North Little Rock chicken processing plant
Tyson Foods announced Monday that it’s closing its North Little Rock chicken processing plant at 3800 E. Progress St.
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Arkansas journalist Alice Driver wins a James Beard Award
Arkansas journalist Alice Driver has won a James Beard Media Award for her role in “Injured and Invisible,” a five-part Civil Eats series spotlighting unjust working conditions for workers in the animal agriculture industry.
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Ammonia leaks at Tyson Foods plants focus of CNN investigation
The report focuses on Mimi Perkins, who worked the graveyard shift at Tyson plant in Hope in 2016. After a pipe weld in the factory ruptured, filling the room where she was working with ammonia gas, she got trapped in the factory for about 40 minutes. She heard a paramedic describe her as “DOA,” and has undergone several throat surgeries and cornea transplants since then.