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I interviewed a Tyson employee for a VegNews article who told me his co-workers were urinating on the poles where they stood because they weren't allowed to stop. It's the industry—pushed by consumer demand for meat—that creates an unhealthy environment. https://t.co/s7aYo58ld9
— Mark Hawthorne Ⓥ (@markhawthorne) May 12, 2020
TERRIBLE >> At least 4,585 Tyson meatpacking workers have caught Covid-19, and 18 Tyson meatpacking workers have died from the disease.
— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) May 12, 2020
Industrywide there have been at least 12,500 Covid-19 cases and 51 deaths.https://t.co/fPavCaSznc
Yea, typical. Blame the workers. https://t.co/CbE3quprHQ
— JScub (@js26783_joe) May 12, 2020
At least 4,500 Tyson meatpacking workers have caught COVID-19, with 18 deaths. @TysonFoods still doesn't offer paid sick leave.https://t.co/goi0TyQ6Wk
— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) May 12, 2020
Headline of the year. https://t.co/A3wGYQAP7B
— Vegan (@vegan) May 11, 2020
At least 4,500 Tyson meatpacking workers have caught COVID-19, with 18 deaths.
— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) May 12, 2020
Tyson still doesn't offer paid sick leave (encouraging sick workers to go to work) as the industry & some Republicans blame workers for the outbreaks.https://t.co/fPavCaSznc@businessinsider
Keep they meet moving - as Tyson has over 4500 sick workers. https://t.co/Y8KVE6HhZD
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) May 11, 2020
Tyson is giving its truck drivers a $1,000 bonus.
— Rachel Premack (@rrpre) May 11, 2020
But there's a catch, and it shows how anxious America's largest meat processor is about keeping truck drivers on staff as the nation frets about meat shortages https://t.co/f2xvY3EM3I
Over 4,500 Tyson workers have tested positive for COVID.
— Mike Elk (@MikeElk) May 12, 2020
Now, Tyson is offering truck drivers a $1,000 bonus that they will only receive if they show up to @rrpre reports https://t.co/XT2ObxJUkE
Modern meatpacking: "I’ve seen bleeders, and they’re gushing because they got hit [by a knife] right in the vein...and here comes the supply guy again, with the bleach, to clean the blood off the floor, but the chain never stops. It never stops.” https://t.co/OSkGGhVviB
— AltUSDA (@altusda) May 12, 2020
“Our centralized, industrialized food system isn’t sustainable, lacks resilience, defies logic, and must be transformed.
— National Farmers Union (@NFUDC) May 12, 2020
We need strict antitrust enforcement that will rid the food system of monopoly power, ensure competition, and encourage innovation.”https://t.co/10p6VNAwhJ pic.twitter.com/owo85OOOMG
"If the Greatest Generation could defeat Nazi Germany and the empire of Japan on a smaller ration of meat, we can certainly eat less of it for the time being to spare the lives of meatpacking workers and their communities." https://t.co/wvmSDHUQBT
— Olivia Paschal (@oliviacpaschal) May 12, 2020
"The industry practice of making hundreds of workers stand close together at a production line—with sharp knives and a fast line speed—endangers not only their safety, but also food safety and public health," Eric Schlosser writes: https://t.co/95HQgQDIfd
— ? Christy Lorio ? (@christylorio) May 12, 2020
Tyson linked to 4,500 COVID-19 cases, as meat industry blames workers https://t.co/YgMGk0xlbk
— #ProgressiveParty (@GottaBernNow) May 13, 2020
People of color make up most of the meatpacking workforce, reports @businessinsider, citing CEPR’s data. At @TysonFoods, 18 have died of #COVID19 & “...the meat giant still doesn't offer paid sick leave, as the industry blames workers for outbreaks.”https://t.co/FoxQQwJYsp
— CEPR (@ceprdc) May 12, 2020
Iowans working at Tyson STILL don't have access to full paid sick leave. This is a racial justice, economic justice, and women's rights issue.https://t.co/TWKRW1NSvE
— ACLU of Iowa (@ACLUiowa) May 12, 2020
"When thousands of meatpacking workers are suffering the same kind of amputations, lacerations, and cumulative-trauma injuries every year, those aren’t industrial accidents. They’re a business decision."
— R Givan (@rkgwork) May 13, 2020
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Great new piece on the meat story from Eric Schlosser: COVID-19 in Meatpacking: Killing Those Who Feed Us - The Atlantic https://t.co/BIb6ElWfxM
— Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) May 12, 2020
To "paraphrase Lincoln, today we have a government of big corporations, by big corporations, for big corporations. And if we don’t take action, and protest, and organize, and make sure to vote this November, that’s what it will remain."
— Brent Newell (@brentjnewell) May 12, 2020
- Eric Schlosserhttps://t.co/oWlAPOlerg