Source: Wenonah Hauter and Daisy Freund, THE HILL, 9/25/20


The COVID-19 pandemic has cracked open animal agriculture’s bucolic façade, revealing giant agribusinesses that control and exploit animals, farmers and workers, and threaten food safety. But the abuses occurring on factory farms and at slaughterhouses may just be the breaking point the food and farming movement needs for advocates to align and finally achieve true systemic change. In the past six months, the public has read stories about COVID-19 outbreaks and worker safety failures in slaughterhouses...

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