Lakeside Packers is a beef producer based in Brooks, Alberta.
As of June 2004, Lakeside Packers had received roughly $33 million Canadian dollars in financial aid from the Government of Alberta since a cow with bovine spongiform encephalopathy was found on an Alberta farm in May 2003.
The union accepted a four-year contract after a member vote approved it by a margin of 56%.
[2] As of March 2009, Lakeside Farm Industries, Ltd. was sold by Tyson to XL Foods, it is reported that Lakeside and its assets were sold to XL Foods Inc. for approximately $107 million.
[3] XL Foods sold the Lakeside Packers plant to JBS Canada on January 14, 2013.