Source: Matt Smith, MARKETWATCH, 8/17/20


Gütersloh county in the pine-and-oak forested flatlands of northern Germany is an industrial hub with washing-machine and tractor factories and the head office of a giant media conglomerate. But it is the slaughterhouse that people talk about. The complex on the edge of the small town of Rheda-Wiedenbrück is Europe’s largest meat plant, with a workforce of 6,500. Locals discuss the busses shuttling Romanian and Polish workers to the 25,000 pig-per-day facility run by the Tönnies Group, and the apartment blocks where workers sleep six to a bedroom.

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