The Justice Department confirmed an active antitrust investigation into U.S. cattle and beef markets amid concerns about meatpacking concentration.

Brazilian meat producer JBS plans to pay $20 million in a pork price-fixing settlement. The company was accused of inflating prices in an industry with little competition.

Washington is offering free weed, New Jersey is offering free beer, and now Utah is offering free ground beef for residents who get a COVID-19 vaccine.

At the beginning of next year, California will begin enforcing an animal welfare proposition approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2018 that requires more space for breeding pigs, egg-laying chickens and veal calves.

Cybersecurity teams worked feverishly Sunday to stem the impact of the single biggest global ransomware attack on record, with some details emerging about how the Russia-linked gang responsible breached the company whose software was the conduit.

With easily accessible hacking tools and hard-to-trace financing amid the rise of cryptocurrency, cybercrime is soaring around the world, experts say.

The JBS Foods hack is threatening to upend the meat production industry just three weeks after the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack caused gas shortages up and down the East Coast.

The hack of JBS Foods, one of the largest meat producers in the world, could send meat prices higher in the near future.