Joel Crews is the editor of MEAT+POULTRY and MEATPOULTRY.com. He leads an award-winning editorial team at Sosland Publishing Company, where he began covering the meat and poultry processing industry in 2000. Crews has traveled the globe covering industry-related events and has toured some of the highest profile processing plants in the world. He is well connected with industry icons as well as members and staff of the industry’s most prominent trade associations and is regarded as a thought leader with unmatched longevity among industry magazine editors covering this segment.