JBS, the Brazilian meat company whose former chairman was arrested over the weekend, has agreed to sell poultry producer Moy Park to another subsidiary for about $1bn (€832m).

Workers in plants run by the largest US poultry producers are regularly being denied bathroom breaks and as a result some are reduced to wearing diapers while working on the processing line, Oxfam America has reported.

AN American poultry processing plant fired 11 workers just 24 hours after an animal rights group released a secretly-shot video of workers kicking, stomping and smashing chickens against walls at the facility in Moorefield, West Virginia.