Given the dismal national record of pig processing plants, Ranchland Packing Co.’s proposed pig plant is potentially very problematic for Butte. While the company and some Butte officials tout the ...

Life is all about eating meat, stealing kisses, and keeping your body well-moisturized. Well, it’s really more about being happy and staying alive. But you feel me. These days, it seems like everyone ...

Third generation hog farmer Chad Leman, making his daily rounds, points to dozens of 300-pound pigs. "These pigs should be gone," he said. He means gone to the meatpacking plant to be processed. But ...