Buying Poultry
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Cutting through confusing labels and marketing claims so you can find food that matches your values. Tweets by @AndrewRdeC and @FarmForward staff.
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http://BuyingPoultry.com 17-04-2012 20:42:38
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Our coalition work against @TysonFoodsCEO is picking up steam! Great coverage of the increasing pressure to protect workers’ lives from The Counter
32,000+ confirmed #COVID19 cases, 120+ deaths, and still no basic protections in slaughterhouses. Meat companies like Tyson Foods and @TysonFoodsCEO have decided that corporate profit matters more than worker lives. #Justice4TysonWorkers bit.ly/Tyson-The-Coun…
32,000+ meatpacking workers are infected with #COVID19 yet they are still working without protections or safety measures. We + 120 orgs demand #Justice4TysonWorkers Tyson Foods @TysonFoodsCEO
While Big Meat (& the president) were keeping meat plants open to “sustain the nation’s food supply” & failing to protect workers, they were also exporting record amounts of meat. Food Chain Workers Alliance (FCWA) Look for Real Food Media wherever you get your podcasts: bit.ly/Foodtopias-1-L…
Six more chicken-industry officials have been indicted on price-fixing charges, expanding U.S. antitrust prosecutions in the $65 billion poultry industry. Via The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/articles/six-c…
“What Global Animal Partnership would have us believe is good work is just the emerging industry status quo, and it in no way challenges factory farming.” More on our departure from the GAP board earlier this year here: bit.ly/2SzxXck
A message from 2050: Repair is possible if we work together to build an anti-oppressive food system for all. Only you can help create this future. Donate to Farm Forward today. bit.ly/farmforwarddon…
Increased line speeds are cruel and also make it impossible for workers to social distance—hence the poultry plants that Donald J. Trump's Dept. of Agriculture granted line-speed waivers to are 10 times more likely to have COVID cases than those without the waivers. washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
...”these certifications...are now doing more to deceive and mislead consumers and are ultimately serving as a hindrance to progress on factory farming issues rather than a step in a better direction,” Andrew deCoriolis Farm Forward ED civileats.com/2021/01/19/are…
Today we joined a coalition of 50 public health, environmental, + animal groups to call on major grocery stores, restaurants, and meat producers to reject the use of a misleading label scheme known as One Health Certified (OHC). bit.ly/OHCrelease