Source: Tom Polansek, P.J. Huffstutter, REUTERS, 2/19/21

One of America’s leading pig slaughterhouses is running faster than ever as meatpackers hustle to keep pork in grocery stores during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plant worker Hector Ixquier says it’s time to slow down. Ixquier said he sought medical treatment in January for tendons he strained in his right arm while draining blood from pigs in a Seaboard Foods pork plant in Guymon, Oklahoma. The 30-year-old immigrant from Guatemala said he requested a transfer to the position piercing jugular veins...

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