This is the grave of Emmett Roe. You have likely never heard of Emmett Roe. But he was a murderous horrible person, one who made America worse for his existing. In fact, I don't know all that much about much of his life. He was...
meat industry
On June 2, 1984, about 500 workers at the Marval turkey processing plant in Harrisonburg, Virginia went on strike. This was a relatively small strike and it did not succeed,.
When we think about the poultry industry, it tends to focus on the terrible treatment of the animals. After all, that's been where the publicity is, given that it is.
There's a concept pushed in recent years by environmental scholars that what capitalism does is create "cheap nature," or the push to commodify the natural world in a way that rips through resources at unsustainable rates by creating systems that make them both inexpensive and...
One of the big moves in left economics in recent years is the revival of demands for antitrust enforcement. I haven't written about this much for the simple reason that.
There's probably no way to seriously take on climate change without significantly reducing beef consumption. Americans aren't going to do that and it's such a hot culture war topic that.
This is the grave of Oscar Mayer. Born in 1859 in Kösingen, Kingdom of Württemberg, Mayer's father was a forester. But his father died in 1870 and his son Oscar moved in with family. He came to the United States in 1873 along with a...
This 1950 propaganda film by the American Meat Institute, a pure and beautiful example of meat industry propaganda, rides that fine line of both boring and awesome at the same..
When I said the Republican Party was dedicated to killing workers, I wasn't kidding. And of course, it's when people's access to endless meat is threatened that Republicans act to.
Another day, another worker murdered by the meat industry. A Eufaula man was killed Tuesday afternoon in an industrial accident at the chicken processing plant in Baker Hill, according to Barbour County Coroner Chip Chapman.Carlos Lynn, 39, worked for the company contracted to clean equipment...
I am simply shocked that the great people who run the meat industry would conspire to keep the immigrants they employ in poverty. Companies producing more than 90% of America’s.
The least surprising thing ever is when you allow industries to regulate themselves and that leads to people dying. That this has just been in the news with the airline.