Ryan J. Foley

Security Breach Podcast

Security Breach Podcast

January 10, 2023

Supplier Recalls Strawberries Linked to Hep A Outbreak

March 21, 2023

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Energy Drink Founder Departs Company

March 13, 2023

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Is Your Production Process Truly Healthy?

February 20, 2023

How to Select Ideal IIoT & Networking Solutions

How to Select Ideal IIoT & Networking Solutions

For many industries, IIoT presents as many challenges as opportunities, but it is clearly the way of the future. Successfully deploying an IIoT application requires careful planning and attention to detail from the moment you decide to begin your journey.

February 23, 2023

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Embroiled Hog Dealer Fires Iowa Staffers Over Buying Violations

Lynch Livestock has twice been sanctioned for defrauding pork producers out of thousands of dollars.

July 29, 2021

In this February 2021 photo provided by Matt Johnson is animal rights activist Johnson, a researcher with the group Direct Action Everywhere. Johnson, a leading foe of the livestock industry, has been charged with trespassing at a pig facility in Iowa, the first case brought under the state's latest so-called 'ag-gag' law.

Activist Charged Under New Food Trespassing Law

It's the first case brought under Iowa’s 'ag-gag' law, aimed at protecting farming operations from intruders.

April 8, 2021

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Activist Cleared of Charges Over Exposing Iowa Hog Deaths

The man helped secretly record a Tyson Foods' supplier farm using heat to kill thousands of hogs last year.

January 29, 2021

Iowa Premium's Tama, IA beef plant.

Iowa Beef Plant Fined Just $957 After 300 Workers Tested Positive for Virus

The fine comes after 40 percent of the plant's 850 workers contracted COVID-19.

September 25, 2020

In this Dec. 20, 2017 file photo, is the Seaboard Triumph Foods pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa.

MN Supplier Biggest Winner in IA Hog Disposal Program

Christensen Farms, one of the nation's largest family-owned pork producers, 72 percent of the program's payouts to date.

July 31, 2020

Workers wait in line to enter the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport, IN on May 7.

IA Congressman Wants Answers About Plant Outbreak

US Rep. Dave Loebsack's letter to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds requests answers over the state's response to a virus outbreak at a Tyson plant there.

July 27, 2020

A Google Maps street view of Tyson Foods' pork processing plant in Columbus Junction, IA.

Outbreak at IA Tyson Plant Was Worse Than State Reported

Records show Tyson officials told state safety regulators 522 plant employees were infected, compared to 221 cases the Iowa Health Department announced.

July 22, 2020

In this May 1 photo, a sign sits in front of the Tyson Foods plant in Waterloo, IA. Civil rights attorney Tom Frerichs filed a lawsuit on Thursday, June 25 behalf of the estates of three Tyson Foods workers at its pork processing plant in Waterloo who died after contracting coronavirus.

Tyson Sued by Families of 3 Deceased Iowa Workers

The suit says the company knowingly put employees at risk and lied to keep them on the job.

June 26, 2020

A Tyson Fresh Meats plant stands in Waterloo, Iowa, date not known. On Friday, April 17, 2020, more than a dozen Iowa elected officials asked Tyson to close the pork processing plant because of the spread of the coronavirus among its workforce of nearly 3,000 people.

Tyson Closes Its Largest Pork Plant

Despite 180 worker infections, Tyson had kept the plant open.

April 22, 2020

In this Saturday, April 18, 2020, photo, medical workers administer drive-up COVID-19 tests outside the Sanford Worthington Clinic in Worthington, Minn. The state has sent a team to ensure safe conditions in the southwestern Minnesota city, where multiple people have tested positive at a meatpacking plant.

Governors Push to Reopen Meat Plants

Despite massive numbers of infections in meat-packing, states are anxious to reopen affected plants.

April 20, 2020