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The word “passion” is overused. Passion is more than a romantic lifestyle or down-home values.

For as long as anyone can remember, farmers and ranchers have been the front-line stewards of animal welfare, with an abiding personal and professional interest in the healthy and humane treatment of their livestock.

These milestones include attaining three million hours without a lost-time injury and reducing injury frequencies as a result of slip-and-fall incidents by 88 percent in just one year.

Butterball’s senior director of safety and risk management Brian Rodgers talks about the learning curve of adjusting worker safety to the different equipment you encounter with pork processing versus turkey processing and how that was advantageous in the long run.