Tyson is shutting down two meat plants. "Tyson Foods Inc., the biggest US meat processor, said it would stop operations at two of its plants in the United States, affecting about 880 employees," Reuters' Ramkumar Iyer reports. "The company said it expects to cease operations at a pepperoni plant in Jefferson, Wisconsin, and a prepared foods facility in Chicago, Illinois, during the second half of the year ending Oct. 1."