Hundreds of thousands of sheep roll through Denver each year destined for a 60-year-old plant nestled in a part of town teeming with livestock history. The fate of Superior Farms' 500,000-head ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Initiated Ordinance 309 on Denver’s ballot would ban slaughterhouses in the city. There is only one such facility operating in Denver currently — and it ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lamb is as Colorado as 14,000-foot peaks and Palisade peaches. Raised in rugged terrain, Colorado lamb is known for its lean meat and rich flavor. Many ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) I’m an associate professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University. My ...

The company also indicated that it plans to fill the gap in lamb processing with imported lamb from their plants in countries like Australia and New Zealand, Sims said. The MSR plant, which was the ...

A south-facing view of Superior Farms, which operates a lamb processing plant in Globeville, a north Denver neighborhood. (Photo via Google Earth) Denver voters rejected a proposed ban on meatpacking ...