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Sysco Corp will buy US Foods Inc., a former Columbia-based company, for about $3.5 billion from its private equity owners in a deal that will combine the top two U.S. food distributors and create a company commanding at least a quarter of the $235 billion North American market.

The only ones who defend the treatment of pregnant pigs are on the dole from big agribusiness.

The poultry industry is the largest piece of a key sector of the local economy — agriculture — and its reach is broad: from the truckers who move product and the many farmers who grow corn for chicken feed to the corner stores and other businesses that rely on customers' income.