21.   The immigrant investors include a meat packer and a steel worker, a computer technician, a teacher and other Chicago public schools employees.

22.   The meat packer bought thousands of animals last year from exhibitors at county fairs, state fairs and events such as the American Royal in Kansas City.

23.   The provision would limit the ability of meat packers to own their own cattle.

24.   With demand weaker, meat packers this week lowered their bids for live animals, further pushing futures prices down, analysts said.

25.   A meat packer has voluntarily recalled more than a ton of beef bologna that may be contaminated with listeria, the USDA announced Friday.

26.   Nebraska meat packer IBP Inc., which shipped the contaminated meat, has questioned the results of the South Korean testing.

27.   The company has ties with the U.S. meat packer Swift and Co. and is also a big marketer of ham and sausages.

28.   Earlier the Japan Broadcasting Corp. and Kyodo News agency reported the meat packer would be dissolved by its parent and sold to a third-party.

29.   Earlier the Japan Broadcasting Corp. and Kyodo News agency said the meat packer would be dissolved by its parent and sold to a third-party company.

30.   The Starzen scandal comes after meat packer Snow Brand Food.