Tyson Foods

Tyson Foods, Inc. is a U.S. based company with headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas. The company is listed on the stock index S & P 500. The company employs 115,000 people who work at more than 300 locations. Has contracts with 6,729 formally independent chicken breeders.

Tyson Foods produces a number of different foods, including from beef, pork and chicken meat.

Tyson Foods is the world's largest marketer of chicken, beef and pork, as well as the annual largest exporter of beef from the United States. The company is a supplier of chicken meat for Yum! Brands (including Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell). Tyson Foods supplies as McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, Wal- Mart, Kroger, Costco, IGA, Beef O'Brady's, small restaurants and prisons.

Each week 42.4 million chickens are produced in the 54 chicken sheds of Tyson Foods; on 13 beef farms 170 938 cattle are produced and in the six pig farms 347 891 pigs (based on the year 2005).

One of the biggest main competitors include Cargill, Smithfield Packing Company and JBS Swift Group.

History

Founded Tyson Foods 1935. The company has accepted numerous companies throughout its history, such as the Hudson Foods Company, Garrett poultry, Washington Creamery, Franz Foods, Prospect Farms, Krispy Chickens, Ocoma Foods, Cassady Broiler, Vantress Pedigree, Wilson Foods, Honeybear Foods, Mexican original, Valmac Industries, Heritage Valley, Lane Processing, Cobb Vantress, Holly Farms, Wight Brand Foods Inc. and IBP Inc.

Tyson Renewable Energy

Tyson Foods future plans are oriented toward the production of renewable energy in a joint venture with the U.S. company ConocoPhillips. In this venture, biodiesel will be produced by the waste products are converted from animal husbandry.

Conservative Christian corporate culture

John Tyson - grandson of the company founder and CEO from 1999 to 2006 - is a born-again, right-wing conservative Christian. Therefore Tyson Foods funds the Religious Right in the United States and employs 128/2 time employees as chaplains in 78 of his works. The company's customers are prompted to download on the company's website a prayer book to read this during meals. Tyson firmly believes "that success for food companies in the future rests on selling Their ideologies as much as their food ."

Criticism from PETA

Employees of the organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals of (PETA ) criticized Tyson Foods for animal undignified conditions in the chicken sheds of the company. An employee of PETA filmed from December 2004 to February 2005 with a hidden camera a chicken coop in Helfin, Alabama, where he stated according to the data of PETA animal unworthy states.

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