health and safety
UFCW: Tyson rivals Smithfield in its disregard for workers
June 26, 2020LOGANSPORT, Ind.—The now-infamous Smithfield pork production plant in South Dakota apparently has a “rival” of sorts among food processing factories that have become coronavirus pandemic hotspots. Welcome to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport,...
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As COVID-19 rages, America’s meatpacking workers battle for their lives
June 26, 2020Their sons and daughters, the Children of Smithfield, organize to save their parents, their children, and themselves.
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Native Alaskan village’s water under threat after 15,000 gallon oil spill
June 24, 2020It is one of the only two spawning grounds for the Kobuk/Selawik population of sheefish and also an important habitat for grayling, arctic char, whitefish, chum salmon and lake trout.
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Masks, gloves – the ocean is filling up with COVID trash
June 19, 2020“It has been really disgusting to watch the plastic industry exploit people’s fears, when everyone is just trying to understand what they need to do to keep safe."
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Study of key nations: Pandemic could have been 90 times worse
June 18, 2020"There have been huge personal costs to staying home and canceling events, but the data show that each day made a profound difference.”
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