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Taxpayers to pay $30m more a year to control cow TB

Nearly half meatworks' staff will be laid off

About 160 of the 350 workers at Silver Fern Farms' Waikato beef slaughter plant at Te Aroha are likely to only be paid a minimum wage until Christmas.

Meat works CEO meets with anxious workers

The 200 workers left jobless after a massive fire gutted a Waikato freezing works remain cautiously optimistic.

Contractor's saw sparks blamed for meat plant blaze

Sparks from a contractor's saw are believed to have ignited the fire that gutted a Waikato freezing works.

Staff worried after meat works fire

The beef processing plant badly damaged by fire at Te Aroha, near Hamilton, overnight may be rebuilt into a world-class plant, owner Silver Fern Farms says.

Massive blaze at freezing works

Photos from the fire at the Silver Fern Farms freezing works in Te Aroha, Waikato.

Jewish spokesman defends kosher poultry killing

A spokesman for the New Zealand Jewish community has defended the animal-killing practice of shechita.

Affco posts profit after tax of $21m

Animal welfare groups slam shechita reversal

Animal welfare organisations are disappointed by the Government's decision to reverse a ban on the kosher killing of chickens.