Five years ago, I was struck by the parallels with accounts of Chicago packinghouse life in the 1890s.

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It owns over 275, 000 sows, twice as many as its closest rival, Carroll's Foods, plus 6 million hogs at various stages in the journey from birth to packinghouse.

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