Tyson Made Its Fortune Packing Meat. Now It Wants to Sell You Frittatas.

The nation’s largest meatpacker wants to reinvent itself as a maker of prepared foods, and is struggling with meat stockpiles, low prices and tariffs

Jacob Bunge | Photographs by

Brett Deering for The Wall Street Journal

Feb. 13, 2019 11:42 a.m. ET

ROGERS, Ark.—By the time you finish reading this sentence, more than 8 pounds of honey-barbecue chicken strips will have tumbled off a production line at Tyson Foods Inc.’s plant here.

For 16 hours at a stretch, the stream of deep-brown strips and other products continues across Tyson’s 50 U.S. plants that together disassemble 37 million chickens each week, turning them into nuggets, wings and breasts. By now, another 10.5 pounds have filled crinkly, Tyson-branded plastic bags at the line’s end.

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