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Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2024
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https://www.reuters.com/business/how-four-big-companies-control-us-beef-industry-2021-06-17/ Explainer: How four big companies control the U.S. beef industry
The big four processors in the U.S. beef sector are: Cargill (CARG.UL), a global commodity trader based in Minnesota; Tyson Foods Inc (TSN.N), the chicken producer that is the biggest U.S. meat company by sales; Brazil-based JBS SA, the world's biggest meatpacker; and National Beef Packing Co (NBEEF.UL), which is controlled by Brazilian beef producer Marfrig Global Foods SA.
It is perfectly moral to spoil Tyson products at the grocery store. They are rife with animal abuse, human rights abuse, and illegally dumping toxic waste. Nobody will fault you for accidentally ripping open their products and tossing them in the garbage.
That type of vandalism just fucks over the store owner. Vote with your wallet instead
It's an incentive for them to not carry Tyson's garbage anymore or at the very least, charge more.
It's still vandalism though
If you think that's bad, wait until you hear what they're feeding to people.
Basic chicken? It's really the salt and breading that's killing people.
So basic that it's banned in the UK. They treat their chicken with chlorine and paracetic acid. A while ago 173 Tyson employees got hospitalized from a spill.
Thank you for posting.
I am not surprised they did this, but I am surprised people are willing to eat Tyson foods. They have been awful for as long as I can remember.
I don't think most people know.
They mostly sell food to other food suppliers, caterers, restaurants and so on.
Can I get a list of companies that aren't pieces of shit? I think it'll be shorter.
Sure, here you go:
Thanks. I wrote it down so I won't forget. 
Brought to you by the company that uses slave labor https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e
And child labor https://www.npr.org/2023/09/25/1201524399/child-labor-perdue-farms-tyson-foods-investigation
The wastewater was enough to fill about 132,000 Olympic-size pools, according to a Guardian analysis.
Can we please hold these fucks accountable?
I like how Olympic-size pool is such a universal unit of measurement lol. I remember looking for the number for how much waste nuclear power plants produce and it was something like the entire US produces half an Olympic-sized swimming pool of spent fuel annually.
Nope. Best we can do is a $100 fine.
So fucking revolting
Last year Governor Jim Pillen, whose family owns one of America’s largest pork companies, was widely criticized for calling a Chinese-born journalist at Flatwater Free Press a “communist” after she exposed serious water quality violations at his hog farms. Earlier this month, the Nebraska supreme court ruled that the state environmental agency could charge the same investigative news outlet tens of thousands of dollars for a public records request about nitrates.
Everywhere I look there's a huge problem affecting all of us, and a republican doing everything in their power to make it worse.
and what's the solution? ____ all conservatives for the sake of humanity
Banish to Antarctica
Why make the penguins suffer?
calling a Chinese-born journalist at Flatwater Free Press a “communist” after she exposed serious water quality violations
This tactic works. "Chinese Disinformation! Don't trust it!" Americans eat this kind of dismissal up with a spoon, because its easier to believe in a sinister outside force that's trying (and failing) to threaten you than it is to realize the killer is in your own backyard and there's nothing you can do to stop his cleaver from claiming another victim.
Earlier this month, the Nebraska supreme court ruled that the state environmental agency could charge the same investigative news outlet tens of thousands of dollars for a public records request about nitrates.
The only thing amazing about the TikTok ban is that it didn't happen much sooner.
~~CCP and Republican™~~ Political disinformation, propaganda, and bullying from multiple actors and entities can and do occur simultaneously.
Very few, if any, political parties across the planet are benevolent to average citizens.
Their mandate is to do harm.
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