is a
Multinational Corporation based in
Springdale ,
Arkansas , that operates in the
Food Industry . The
Company is the
World ’s largest processor and marketer of
Chicken ,
Beef , and
Pork , and annually exports the largest percentage of
Beef out of the
United States . With 2005 sales of $26 billion, Tyson Foods is the second-largest food company in the
Fortune 500 . The company makes a wide variety of
Protein -based and prepared food products at its 123
Food Processing plants. Tyson Foods has approximately 114,000
Employee s, who work at more than 300 facilities in the United States and throughout the world.
Tyson Foods uses chicken parts in it's feed, and sends them to it's farms, to fed it's chicks leftover chicken. (
Fast Food Nation , Page 287)
The largest meatpacking plant owned by Tyson is in
Emporia, Kansas .
Current members of the ,
Lloyd Hackley ,
Scott T. Ford ,
Jim Kever ,
Jo Ann Smith ,
Leland Tollett ,
Barbara Tyson ,
Don Tyson ,
John Tyson , and
Albert Zapanta .
