Posts tagged meat industry
Wastelands: The true story of farm country on trial

Unlike wildfire smoke or oil spills, pollution from hog farms is not something you can easily capture in a photograph. This issue is the subject of Wastelands, a nonfiction environmental legal thriller by Corban Addison, an attorney and novelist. The 400-page book reports on a series of court cases filed against Smithfield Foods by neighbors of its industrial hog operations.

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The new rules have not made meatpacking work safer

Frontline meatpackers work in such close proximity that meat processing plants continue to be hot spots for Covid-19. These already perilous workplaces have become easily among the most dangerous in the country.

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Can’t cut it as a vegetarian? Try this instead.

Can’t cut it as a vegetarian but want to eat for the planet and your own health? Try the reducetarian diet instead.

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