Dossier
meatpacking industry
Coverage of meatpacking industry in the Nexus archive.
- Major meatpackers have taken in more than half a billion in tax subsidies since 2006
State and local governments provided over $500 million in tax subsidies to meat processing companies since 2006, with eight companies dominating U.S. meat production. Subsidies aimed to create 69,037 jobs across 805 deals, but employment in the industry declined from 118,000 to 71,000 between 2006 and 2023.