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Industrial factory farming threatens our health, our environment and our local economic and food security.
The handful of “Big Meat” corporations that monopolize industrial meat production are guilty of exploiting meatpacking workers, farmworkers, farmers and ranchers—and torturing billions of farm animals.
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How likely is it that a consumer buying Ducktrap River of Maine “All Natural” smoked Atlantic salmon would have any idea that the salmon in that product was raised on chemicals and antibiotics, in an industrial fish farm nowhere near Maine or the Atlantic?
Not very, we think.
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As COVID-19 swept through U.S. meatpacking plants (slaughterhouses currently account for almost half of the country’s hotspots), plants closed, leaving farmers with millions of animals they couldn’t get to market. This prompted Tyson to take out an ad in the New York Times,
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The coronavirus spread at more than twice the national rate in U.S. counties with major meatpacking plants in the first week after President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing that they be reopened.
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Will Harris is at odds with the way most producers get meat to the American public. The Georgia farmer shuns the large production plants that dominate the protein supply chain in the country, raising his “athletes” — hens, pigs and cattle and seven other species — on 3,200 acres near the Alabama border.
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More than 700 employees at a Tyson Foods meat factory in Perry, Iowa, have tested positive for the coronavirus as the nation braces for a possible meat shortage due to the pandemic. An Iowa Department of Public Health report released Tuesday showed that 58 percent of the factory's workforce had tested positive for the virus, NBC affiliate WHO of Des Moines reported.
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Farmers markets in the Twin Cities and across the upper Midwest will open soon, but as the Minnpost reports, they are definitely going to look different this year.
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Thirty years of gain-of-function experiments have not delivered any significant benefits such as cures or safe vaccines, clearly showing that the risks substantially outweigh the benefits. Therefore, after evaluating the benefits versus the risks of gain-of-function experimentation, we the undersigned call for a US and global moratorium on all gain-of-function experiments. The moratorium will stay in place until the UN Secretary General calls a head-of-state-level Summit on the hazards of gain-of-function research; and recommendations are made and implemented to improve biosecurity and
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Tony Thompson, sheriff for Black Hawk County in Iowa, told the New York Times that Tyson’s disregard for workers in its Waterloo, Iowa pork plant “shook me to the core.” Thompson asked the Times reporter:
“Which is more important? Your pork chops, or the people that are contracting Covid, the people that are dying from it?”
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed what has
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The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing a terrible fact of life in the United States: Inequality.
Whether you’ll be safe or in harm's way, whether you’ll get worse or recover, whether you’ll be helped or forgotten—even whether you live or die—depends to a frightening extent on whether you are male or female, white or or a person of color, young or old, a citizen or an immigrant, rich or poor.
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