Opinion: The next U.S. agriculture secretary must rebuke the meat industry
Story Date: 12/10/2020

 

Source: DES MOINES REGISTER, 12/7/20

More and more, it’s clear just how troubling the meat industry is. It endangers the lives of workers, produces products that cause heart disease and cancer, contributes to climate change, and keeps animals in deplorable conditions until they are killed. Now, a lawsuit is alleging that managers at a Tyson Foods plant in Iowa were betting on how many workers would contract COVID-19. The conditions at meatpacking plants across the U.S. have ensured that infection rates would be high.

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