I say this again and again, Democracy Now is the best source of news that I've found anywhere. A HUGE thank you to the team that makes these broadcasts possible.
are you some kind of joker? This is the most fear-mongering selective reporting exclusionary psychological warfare that could ever shame the name 'journalism.' Do yourself a favor. Seek out other sources.
I like the Jimmy Dore show also, and Rising etc. Actually there are about thirty or so youtube shows that report the news that corporate owned media does not want people to hear. Chris Hedges is the most truthful and courageous of all of them.
George W Bush sent 19 years old poor soldiers to died in Iraq for oil war, now we see the same thing Trump did care about those Latino meat packing poor.
Kaylan Gray I was raised vegetarian & only eat some organic, when I can find it, chicken/turkey. I use a lot of alternative meat products- I am very healthy. Americans eat much more meat than is thought to be healthy.
@@Find-Your-Bliss- just go vegan please. There's no need to consume animals or their maternity secretions. It's only bad for the environment even if "organic".
Be vegan Watch earthlings the movie its free on TH-cam. Dont buy meat Tell trump and gov to Declare meat non essential to help reduce covid19 severity and public health problems! Declaring meat essential and forcing meat plants to open puts the countries health at greater risk by people potentionally catching covid at meat plants then spreading it to the population, and people potentionally eating meat contaminated with covid then contracting covid that way. A healthy plant based diet is better for the immune system than meat. if they declared meat eggs and dairy non essential, covid and other contagious illness would likely not be as high/common and or severe as otherwise. Declaring meat essential and forcing meat plants to open also puts the country at greater risk in general for things like heart disease, (the worlds leading cause of death largely caused by overconsumption of animal products), and other meat related illnesses that kill many more people than covid and people with these illnesses r at higher risk of getting a severe covid case, and if they get a symptomatic or more severe case they r more likely on av to spread it than an asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic person with it, and increases healthcare costs more than what they would likely be if they ate plant based instead. If they really cared about the publics health, they shouldn't force meat plants to open or declare them essential. Seems they just care more about money than public health. Tell gov to not care about money more than public health regarding meat plants. Many meat factory workers have been getting and spreading covid19 more so than alot of other people reportedly on average. Shut down meat factories, animal agriculture, hunting, and fishing, while making sure everyone has access to a proper vegan diet. Reportedly many meat factories still r having workers work close to eachother, and r fireing them if they want to take off sick so many work while sick. Its not worth keeping meat factories open just to make people fat and sick and increase covid risk. Tell People to go to trumps twitter and email and tell him meat is not essential and why declaring it not essential would likely reduce covid severity and health problems in general more than if it isn't. Do not buy meat cuz If people dont buy meat, those people wont get covid from meat plants cuz they wont be there, theyll be at home or doing a hopefully safer job. Don't buy meat cuz it might be coming from a plant where people are dying from covid. Not only does it increase your risk of getting contaminated meat or meat packaging and potentionally u getting covid from it, and increase your risk of getting covid by the workers getting covid from the plant then spreading it to others who might spread it to you, its like putting the meat plant workers at risk. They wouldnt be dying to provide people with meat if people didnt buy or eat meat. They don't just stay home probably cuz they r deemed essential thus if they stay home they will probably be fired then when this is over they probably wont have that job to go back to and its probably hard for them to find a better job, ( slaughterhouse jobs r often jobs of last resort for money), thus they might prefer to go to work sick or to work with sick workers for lack of a better way to get their needs met. and i dont kno if they would get a check from gov to stay home like non essential people, and i dont know if they would qualify for a check from gov if they r not citizens, thus they might prefer to go to work sick or to work with sick workers for lack of a better way to get their needs met. ___ Convince gov to let everyone have an acre of free tax free fertile land to grow a food forest on and live on. End farm subsidies. End tax breaks to farms exsept those who grow healthy vegan food for human consumption exsept no large mono crops. End mandatory school, ged and hsd requirements, age limits, minimum wage, and exsessive regs. People should be able to learn how to do a good job they want so they can afford a house and car before 18. For those who and whos parents can afford it, tax deductible chairty and or the $ (about 180,000dollars in us) spent on k thru 12 per student could pay for it and trash k thru 12 and some of that money could be used to promote more independence and healthy living.
jennifer coble ,What’s your plan to do that how do we start when we can’t even protect ourselves! We can’t even get unemployment because the government is making it too hard because the 1% want us to get back to work and not have to pay unemployment! Where would you like to begin
B. Ciernioch ,Hockey wouldn’t qualify cause he has bone spurs he can’t stand that long! But yet he can stand in one of his fucking mega rally’s for over three hours preaching the gospel of trump* of hate and bigotry and egocentric ideology!
Not only 45, send McConnell, Graham, kushner ,Miller, Ivanka ( oh no...she will break her nails ) and the rest of the Republicans. Start cutting those meat 45, that you so loved. I bet, the owner of this Tyson company donates a lot of money to 45's campaign .
This covid outbreak shows us all the areas of our lives that need attention . Starting with old age homes and meat processing plants. Definitely serious problems in these areas where health and safety should be the number one priority. WTF
Our country needed to be taken back from the people like Fauci and Gates who manipulate us. We need to stand up and oppose and stop social distancing. Listen to Del Bigtree, to Dr Judy Mikovits, to Dr Buttar, to Robert F Kennedy, Jr etc.
We should sue the president for all the loss of work and kids losing their education and the everlasting trauma that is caused to the ones who lost loved ones. Forced to quarantine and the loss os social life. The traumatic distress of inability to to provide for family's with loss of jobs and the edd failed system. This is bullshit
All we talk about is business rights, what happened to labor, unions, respect for workers. We have moved so far right, the right to life has been taken away when your company will fire you for being sick.
The only right to life that seems to count is the anti abortion fetus right to life no matter the conditions its born into because once its born they stop caring
There's something wrong when our elected representatives aren't our voice. Get on the phone and call your congressman or woman, and tell them, this is unacceptable. These workers should have PPEs and get hazard pay
Irate Pirate ,Good luck with that!the idiots in the republican party, is going to fall on deaf ears! No matter how much we bitch they’re not gonna do anything except fill their own pockets with money especially once they get out of office. If you’re Republican hell don’t even bother Mitch McConnell is the one who rules the way and so is Lindsey Graham!Use your votes that’s the only choice you have if you know somebody who can’t get to the voting booth because of transportation get them there make sure that you volunteer at a voting booth in a remote part of your state! It will make all the difference in the world other than calling these idiots on the phone
@@kathyfranklund3628 that's why we're voting them out in November. Please, vote blue. I'm very afraid the GOP's going to pull something criminal to deprive us of that right. They've been getting away with sooo many crimes, they feel emboldened
This is disgusting on so many levels. What we do to animals to eat their corpses + thiese disgusting jobs are for poor immigrants that have no choice...
@@hunsadersrockinranch : Keep running the cardiac treadmill ......... and see if coronary disease doesn't come knocking at your door or maybe something even worse like the big 'C.'
Human being are so disconnected. They demand respect for their bodies and love as human beings whilst they are systematically desecrating the bodies of other salient beings.
@@obobobobobi wow, i never heard that argument before, How original. Probably I would eat plants if I was in a jungle. Lucky for me in live in a society abundant with fruit, vegetables and and thousands of vegan options so I don't need to try the jungle. I am talking about how human beings are disconnected, I am nit having a 'what if you were alone on a desert island' conversation.
@@rachelusher5390 I know you would eat grass and cockroaches as it is a steady diet in communist countries. I was talking about what you call other beings they would eat you in a heartbeat because of hunger. Maybe you should pray to god to remove hunger so we all can leave happy with all the animals until then I ll eat meat.
sandy kitty , yes it is!,and it has always been! We just disguise it and we put our blinders on ,to not see what is really happening in the world because it’s so hard for us to swallow that we have Sunk so low on the American dream! Why do you think people are out there buying thousand dollar iPhones every couple of months even though they really can’t afford it! The younger generation does not believe in saving money for days like this! Why because they believe in Socialism when it’s convenient for them! Like oh getting welfare like getting unemployment getting food stamps getting free medical help or little cost medical help! We’re getting rent subsidies because we were too stupid to use birth control and have three kids from three different fathers which is totally acceptable right now just like it is totally acceptable for the president of United States to have had three different wives,And does not believe in any religion other way as it suits him for his political agenda! The President of the United States is one of the ones that will hire a hooker in tonight right to your face as he walks out pulling his pants up! And lie to his wife and say oh sorry it didn’t mean anything because I don’t love her! The only reason that Melania,married this man is to stay in the United States and she made it official by having a child with him! Therefore then her parents were brought over! She had no idea what she was getting herself into when she said he would marry him,as he was cheating on his third wife! She knew exactly what she was doing! He was rich he was white and he held her American citizenship by birth!Which means she has no values either because she let it happen! You know there still means a law, that says you can’t sue someone for wrecking your marriage either it be a wife or a husband! It’s still a true law they have never reversed it!
Really sad.....how these hard working women/men are being treated......the underbelly of then US is not pretty...... the rich do not care what happens to the working class. McConnell is a horrible person.....all the meat plant workers should just walk out because of virus.....see how long it will for the big shots come begging for them to return
The Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost. We have aggressively killed, controlled and manipulated people all over the world and like Jim Marrs wrote about, the US is The New Fourth Reich. Look up Operation Paperclip to trace what is happening to us.
@@bettyannewilkinson8686 Blacks are dying at disproportionate numbers in the inner cities. Latino's at the meat plants. Call me a grim cynic. This is a GOP wet dream come true. Who needs to vote suppress or gerrymander when Covid will take care of it for you? These opportunists have absolutely 0 morals. The people need to rise up. Or at minimum, VOTE.
EVER SINCE REAGAN,, REPUBLICANS HAVE CRUSHED UNIONS, AND ANY ORGANIZED LABOR MOVEMENTS, IN THE UNITED STATES... IT'S TIME TO REVERSE THAT... WORKERS SHOULD HAVE RIGHTS!!! AND A LIVING WAGE!!! WITH HEALTHCARE, PROVIDED!!
I am boycotting Tyson and all its affiliated name brands. I don't eat beef and pork and now I'm going to add chicken to the list. Please look up all the meat Packers and affiliated brands and do not buy their products. I already don't consume dairy so there's no need to ask...
My question is why did it take this for you to act? Why were you not buying your chicken or any other meant form your local farmers and ranches? Why were you buying your meat from a big box store, and not your local butcher shop? I'll tell you why.... You are cheap, and you like the cheap prices that are brought to you by this big filthy corporations. You also like the cheap slave like illegal labor. You like all that cheapness in all that you eat. YOU and those like you are to blame. This has nothing to do with eating meat, and everything to do with being CHEAP about it O_O
@@2bRealist Meat is nothing but a waste of resources, and if you want to make it worse, then simply do what you are doing. To think we can supply the huge demand for animal prodcuts with local sourced meat is absolutely ridiculous.
@@veg9097 I have a self sufficient homestead / farm... I'm good, but I do worry about the rest of the nation. Meat is NOT a waste of resources, unless YOU are wasting those resources. Buy responsible. Buy Local!
I have to get a tooth extraction the oral surgeon can’t do surgeries cause of the Pandemic but these people must go to work cause we need to eat meat?? No body goes hungry if you can’t eat meat... this pandemic is about privilege and for those who don’t have it
It's true actually. We grow enough food to feed the entire population of the planet. This is the same as those moron spoilt crybabies who just have to have a haircut. Missed the needs vs wants lesson in kindergarten.
Maybe try abraiding with hydrogen peroxide for some relief? ...oral abraiding instructions are on the label. I've knocked out some toothaches that way. I'm a plant based eater and this for me highlights the absolute cruelty of animal ag. Main contributor of climate change as well. But this is about the total authority of corporatism. No voice or basic rights.
TRUMP WON'T COMMAND THE PRODUCTION OF TEST KITS FOR THE VIRUS!!! BUT DON'T GET BETWEEN DONNIE AND HIS HAMBURGER!!!! THAT'S A NATIONAL EMERGENCY!!! IT'S ALL ABOUT PRIORITIES!! AND TRUMP'S ARE UPSIDE DOWN!!!! HAMBURGERS OVER HEALTHCARE WORKERS!!! AND HAMBURGERS OVER THE MEAT PLANT WORKERS!!!! GIVE THEM PAID SICK LEAVE!!! OR WE COULD ALL GET SICK,, FROM TAINTED MEAT!!!!
@@johnedward3404 Trump is about as compassionate as a serial killer...oh wait, have you seen these Covid-19 stats??? ...yup definitely a serial killer.
"Social" Distancing should be changed to "Physical" Distancing and an explanation given of why we need to do this. A lot of people need to be taught at least 20 times until it automatically sinks in and becomes an automatic action.
Hummm not exactly. The deforestation all over the world push the animals (bats and other...) to get closer to urban area...and these animal...before they where been eated by humans, they used to defect in the forest, causing a good bio-organic dejection for the ecosystem wich they used to live in. But, when they defect in whitin high density of populated human aera. The connection with human/animal contamination can be one of the many reason you can get infected. We have to put nuances to the bigger problem. I'm not debating on if it's good or not to eat meat...but we have to consider so much more aspect than just one .
All workers on the food processing industries should be regularly tested and this includes all involved on distribution of the above. No one should be working without adequate protection. Has the meat been UV sterilized before packing?
Meat is not food. "Meat" is why we have viruses, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, etc. People have the power to embrace a healthy whole foods plant based lifestyle, and set themselves, those workers, and the beautiful innocent animals, free.
@@krimmer66 I have been been wanting to switch to the lifestyle but was always a little intimidated by it. I will give it go. I know that vegan food has come a long way in terms of taste.
@@jwalt8019 Good for you. Vegan food isn't what people think it is. It's not just the fake meats and cheeses, the produce section has tons of fresh fruits and vegetables.
@@ursamagickmt672 Alex needs to get his show taken away from him and get COVID already. I saw another episode where he claimed a chocolate and chicken shake was healthy. He even drank it on camera.(barf). As for cannibalism, it was practiced by tribes for a long time for survival and spiritual reasons...maybe still. I'm not sure if it's unhealthy or not. National Geography had an article about it but it was inclusive. Only thing I found was a disease called "kuru" from people eating human brains.
Rebecca Benway Maybe Alex Jones in his tank could be a victim of friendly fire, those wal mart looking slobs with their automatic weapons don’t seem to know what they’re doing.
cruelty behavior murders on human's relationships also;to children, to parents ,to families,and to others. have to dismiss from teaching cruelty behaviors for the next generations !
We can make do with less meat. Make the plants safe for workers. Federal Government should be helping all American citizens in every capacity. Our "President" and his Administration has failed the American people and anyone living in US.
@@tonymemory2279 well thanks for that information, because I was unaware that I've been dead for 12 years. All this time I thought I was surviving just fine without any animal flesh or maternity secretions!
@@aryastark3148 you still have a human ancestry like indian persian , we are all mixed with both creations. trust me if you were 100% pure neander grey eyed you cannot survive on veggies. someone in your family is brown eyed and thats only reason your hanging by a thread. i literally know people that cant eat only veggies. just do a search and see. they get sick. its blood type.
If people really knew what goes on in these meat and poultry plants we would all be vegans. The worst part is for many if these workers these jobs are their only option. Very sad.
Here's the solution, don't eat meat or cut down. Look at what happened to gas prices skyrocketed down same will happen to meats and poultry. Hit them where they understand in their pocketbook, money is all they understand.
I remember reading the novel, The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. This brings to mind the working conditions at the meatpacking plants portrayed in the novel.
You cannot blame the Iranians, the Cubans, the Iraqis, the Russians, the Libyans, the Syrians, the Venezuelan, The Afghanistan or anybody else. This lays directly at the US government's door...
@Nota Bene Of course it was horrendous in WW2 but it is staggering that with its own history of slavery the USA hierarchy today is so callous towards the weak, disadvantaged, vulnerable & marginalized in its own society. Probably even more so is that the State of Israel populated by many Holocaust descendants, perpetuates its own brand of murderous apartheid against the Palestinians with the full support of corporate America's political manipulators.
You're right! And people have sacrificed a lot more to save this country! If you can't handle the office, get out and let the next person take the job!
They should ignore Trump and do the right thing. He needs to be swaddled in a straight jacket and left in a padded room. Or put him in prison, where he belongs.
I have been watching/listening to Democracy Now for over 20 years, depending on Amy and crew to deliver the “real news” , but along the way I have observed that what is being delivered is not “the news”, but stories presented in such a way as to bolster their position on any given topic. As the Covid-19 story has unfolded, I have seen that this tendency is further exacerbated to the point that I can no longer trust that what is being presented is in fact...the facts. I pt sounds like an amped-up version of what mainstream media is also reporting. There is lots of documented evidence available that tells a very different story. Seems to me that Democracy now should reign-in utilizing certain events to further their agenda and stick with whit is in fact actually happening. Where’s the news of the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation’s part in all of this? Or the facts that Robert Kennedy Jr is putting forth? the list goes on...
Close down Animal Agriculture industries. Put workers on Plant Agriculture jobs. There aren't reports of COVID19 hot spots with plant ag facilities. Calling decomposing flesh and animal secretions 'food' is the problem. Slaughterhouses need to be leveled and turned into greenhouses.
Meat eaters please BOYCOTT and stop buying these products until these worker’s DEMANDS are MET. Seriously, this chance to make a difference is here and do the right thing. BOYCOTT !!
Don't think you can stop eating Tyson chicken or do meatless Mondays? I live in rural Tennessee and have driven by a Tyson chicken barn and caught the indistinguishable smell of death........Think about it.
Okay, I'll ask the unspeakable question: If the meat from those plants are exposed to the positive workers and then that meat is sold and eaten, can the customers who eat it catch cover-19?
Eating meat is gross, working at a slaughterhouse is barbaric and if you have a job on the line I'm sure you'll agree it is one of the worst jobs on earth. This is where the disease emerges. Let's take this moment and get real about a future without eating animals.
Poor animals most are slaughtered and stuffed in processed foods to just be tossed away from storing for a long period of time or to be thrown away for passing the 6 min mark at a fast food resteraunt.
Yellow pea and/hemp. Good sources of protein iron and omegas.😎 Almond,coconut and advacodos production have very negative impacts on environment and people as well as these conditions in meat processing plants. FDA and CDC will be/is crippled in ability to properly inspect and enforce safe food supplies.
I feel sorry for the meatpacking workers. You aren't being treated humanewly. But neither are the animals. Let's give the humans better jobs & a Union. Let's stop eating meat. Covid19 started at a wet market in China, eating bats & other "exotic" animals. What is the difference pigs, chickens & cattle crowded in pens, where they can't turn around? If the humans aren't allowed a safe & sanitary working environment,can you imagine how poorly the animals are being treated? So you eat the meat from an animal that has suffered & lived in filthy conditions. Not by their choosing. Then handled & processed by humans that work In unsanitary, unacceptable & untenable conditions, "not by their own choosing" but out of necessity. Now some are contaminated by the Covid19 virus, forced to work because they could lose their job. And then you "choose" to eat meat. Something is terribly wrong.
The virus supposedly transfers most effectively on hard, unyielding surfaces. And supposedly not as well on moist, Sponge-like textures, but sure, any surface being handled and rehandled could be a transfer zone As far as I understand it.
It can if the spread the germs. It might live on meat for a few days. Dont buy meat Tell trump and gov to Declare meat non essential to help reduce covid19 severity and public health problems! Declaring meat essential and forcing meat plants to open puts the countries health at greater risk by people potentionally catching covid at meat plants then spreading it to the population, and people potentionally eating meat contaminated with covid then contracting covid that way. A healthy plant based diet is better for the immune system than meat. if they declared meat eggs and dairy non essential, covid and other contagious illness would likely not be as high/common and or severe as otherwise. Declaring meat essential and forcing meat plants to open also puts the country at greater risk in general for things like heart disease, (the worlds leading cause of death largely caused by overconsumption of animal products), and other meat related illnesses that kill many more people than covid and people with these illnesses r at higher risk of getting a severe covid case, and if they get a symptomatic or more severe case they r more likely on av to spread it than an asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic person with it, and increases healthcare costs more than what they would likely be if they ate plant based instead. If they really cared about the publics health, they shouldn't force meat plants to open or declare them essential. Seems they just care more about money than public health. Tell gov to not care about money more than public health regarding meat plants. Many meat factory workers have been getting and spreading covid19 more so than alot of other people reportedly on average. Shut down meat factories, animal agriculture, hunting, and fishing, while making sure everyone has access to a proper vegan diet. Reportedly many meat factories still r having workers work close to eachother, and r fireing them if they want to take off sick so many work while sick. Its not worth keeping meat factories open just to make people fat and sick and increase covid risk. Tell People to go to trumps twitter and email and tell him meat is not essential and why declaring it not essential would likely reduce covid severity and health problems in general more than if it isn't. Do not buy meat cuz If people dont buy meat, those people wont get covid from meat plants cuz they wont be there, theyll be at home or doing a hopefully safer job. Don't buy meat cuz it might be coming from a plant where people are dying from covid. Not only does it increase your risk of getting contaminated meat or meat packaging and potentionally u getting covid from it, and increase your risk of getting covid by the workers getting covid from the plant then spreading it to others who might spread it to you, its like putting the meat plant workers at risk. They wouldnt be dying to provide people with meat if people didnt buy or eat meat. They don't just stay home probably cuz they r deemed essential thus if they stay home they will probably be fired then when this is over they probably wont have that job to go back to and its probably hard for them to find a better job, ( slaughterhouse jobs r often jobs of last resort for money), thus they might prefer to go to work sick or to work with sick workers for lack of a better way to get their needs met. and i dont kno if they would get a check from gov to stay home like non essential people, and i dont know if they would qualify for a check from gov if they r not citizens, thus they might prefer to go to work sick or to work with sick workers for lack of a better way to get their needs met. ___ Convince gov to let everyone have an acre of free tax free fertile land to grow a food forest on and live on. End farm subsidies. End tax breaks to farms exsept those who grow healthy vegan food for human consumption exsept no large mono crops. End mandatory school, ged and hsd requirements, age limits, minimum wage, and exsessive regs. People should be able to learn how to do a good job they want so they can afford a house and car before 18. For those who and whos parents can afford it, tax deductible chairty and or the $ (about 180,000dollars in us) spent on k thru 12 per student could pay for it and trash k thru 12 and some of that money could be used to promote more independence and healthy living.
Very disheartening story. Glad that Democracy is covering this injustice for undocumented workers who are truly voiceless in such a dire time. Mainstream media does not care about these people so you will not hear a snippet of these kind of stories which are very real and serious. This is why we can only rely on independent journalism like DN to tackle the terrible fate that these poor desperate workers have to succumb to. My heart goes out to all these workers. It’s given me newly found respect an admiration for all that they do to provide us with meat and poultry. I’ve been cutting down huge on meat because of this kind of story but I do understand they still need a job.
That is a very interesting point!! There are horrifying unhygienic conditions and risks permeating every sector of the meat industry!! From herding conditions to slaughter to packing to market packaging and distribution!!! DAMN...
Meatless May Mondays? How about meatless always? There is no nutritional necessity to eat animals (or their secretions). As a species we evolved and thrived for 100s of thousands of years eating only plants so there is no reason why we cannot do it again.
I’ll take my chances starving to death unless I find remote work (just graduated law school). I don’t trust this place right now. I already eat a 98% vegan, 2% vegetarian diet, but no money.
The plant based alternatives are better for you, taste better, & involved -0- cruelty to animals. Any greedy employer that forces anyone to work under these conditions should be closed down permanently. Human beings do not need meat to live, and having seen the animal cruelty alone was enough to make me go vegetarian. Looks like the cruelty doesn't stop at animals, but includes their employee's too. Let them close down, we don't need them.
I say this again and again, Democracy Now is the best source of news that I've found anywhere. A HUGE thank you to the team that makes these broadcasts possible.
are you some kind of joker? This is the most fear-mongering selective reporting exclusionary psychological warfare that could ever shame the name 'journalism.' Do yourself a favor. Seek out other sources.
Facts
I like the Jimmy Dore show also, and Rising etc. Actually there are about thirty or so youtube shows that report the news that corporate owned media does not want people to hear. Chris Hedges is the most truthful and courageous of all of them.
In the US, profit counts more than human lives.
The day a Democtatice Republic was changed to Capitolism(which is a type of free market economy)
The USA lost its spirit, dream, and soul.
Especially sad when one considers how many people die from the meat-heavy American diet which leads to heart disease, diabetes and obesity.
And those jobs are absolutely the most horrible in the country.
George W Bush sent 19 years old poor soldiers to died in Iraq for oil war, now we see the same thing Trump did care about those Latino meat packing poor.
Any lives, it seems, since people are willing to put others at risk so they can devour the flesh of innocents.
Lets find ways to reduce meat consumption!
Kaylan Gray
I was raised vegetarian & only eat some organic, when I can find it, chicken/turkey.
I use a lot of alternative meat products-
I am very healthy.
Americans eat much more meat than is thought to be healthy.
@@Find-Your-Bliss- just go vegan please. There's no need to consume animals or their maternity secretions. It's only bad for the environment even if "organic".
we could eat les of it, that might work
Be vegan Watch earthlings the movie its free on TH-cam. Dont buy meat
Tell trump and gov to Declare meat non essential to help reduce covid19 severity and public health problems!
Declaring meat essential and forcing meat plants to open puts the countries health at greater risk by people potentionally catching covid at meat plants then spreading it to the population, and people potentionally eating meat contaminated with covid then contracting covid that way.
A healthy plant based diet is better for the immune system than meat.
if they declared meat eggs and dairy non essential, covid and other contagious illness would likely not be as high/common and or severe as otherwise.
Declaring meat essential and forcing meat plants to open also puts the country at greater risk in general for things like heart disease, (the worlds leading cause of death largely caused by overconsumption of animal products), and other meat related illnesses that kill many more people than covid and people with these illnesses r at higher risk of getting a severe covid case, and if they get a symptomatic or more severe case they r more likely on av to spread it than an asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic person with it,
and increases healthcare costs more than what they would likely be if they ate plant based instead.
If they really cared about the publics health, they shouldn't force meat plants to open or declare them essential. Seems they just care more about money than public health.
Tell gov to not care about money more than public health regarding meat plants.
Many meat factory workers have been getting and spreading covid19 more so than alot of other people reportedly on average.
Shut down meat factories, animal agriculture, hunting, and fishing, while making sure everyone has access to a proper vegan diet.
Reportedly many meat factories still r having workers work close to eachother, and r fireing them if they want to take off sick so many work while sick.
Its not worth keeping meat factories open just to make people fat and sick and increase covid risk.
Tell People to go to trumps twitter and email and tell him meat is not essential and why declaring it not essential would likely reduce covid severity and health problems in general more than if it isn't.
Do not buy meat cuz If people dont buy meat, those people wont get covid from meat plants cuz they wont be there, theyll be at home or doing a hopefully safer job.
Don't buy meat cuz it might be coming from a plant where people are dying from covid. Not only does it increase your risk of getting contaminated meat or meat packaging and potentionally u getting covid from it, and increase your risk of getting covid by the workers getting covid from the plant then spreading it to others who might spread it to you, its like putting the meat plant workers at risk. They wouldnt be dying to provide people with meat if people didnt buy or eat meat.
They don't just stay home probably cuz they r deemed essential thus if they stay home they will probably be fired then when this is over they probably wont have that job to go back to and its probably hard for them to find a better job, ( slaughterhouse jobs r often jobs of last resort for money), thus they might prefer to go to work sick or to work with sick workers for lack of a better way to get their needs met.
and i dont kno if they would get a check from gov to stay home like non essential people, and i dont know if they would qualify for a check from gov if they r not citizens, thus they might prefer to go to work sick or to work with sick workers for lack of a better way to get their needs met.
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Convince gov to let everyone have an acre of free tax free fertile land to grow a food forest on and live on.
End farm subsidies. End tax
breaks to farms exsept those who grow healthy vegan food for human consumption exsept no large mono crops.
End mandatory school, ged and hsd requirements, age limits, minimum wage, and exsessive regs.
People should be able to learn how to do a good job they want so they can afford a house and car before 18.
For those who and whos parents can afford it, tax deductible chairty and or the $ (about 180,000dollars in us) spent on k thru 12 per student could pay for it and trash k thru 12 and some of that money could be used to promote more independence and healthy living.
Thank you for reporting on this atrocity of abuse of these essential workers.
For you conversatives out there. this is what less regulations look like.
Protect these people.
jennifer coble ,What’s your plan to do that how do we start when we can’t even protect ourselves! We can’t even get unemployment because the government is making it too hard because the 1% want us to get back to work and not have to pay unemployment! Where would you like to begin
Send trump to the meat processing line, but I guess he wouldn’t be qualified enough for the job
That guy isn't qualified for ANY job.
What gets me is that the pigs they are slaughtering are smarter and have more empathy than tRump.
He is condemned meat.
B. Ciernioch ,Hockey wouldn’t qualify cause he has bone spurs he can’t stand that long! But yet he can stand in one of his fucking mega rally’s for over three hours preaching the gospel of trump* of hate and bigotry and egocentric ideology!
Not only 45, send McConnell, Graham, kushner ,Miller, Ivanka ( oh no...she will break her nails ) and the rest of the Republicans. Start cutting those meat 45, that you so loved. I bet, the owner of this Tyson company donates a lot of money to 45's campaign .
This covid outbreak shows us all the areas of our lives that need attention . Starting with old age homes and meat processing plants. Definitely serious problems in these areas where health and safety should be the number one priority. WTF
meat plants need to just die
Our country needed to be taken back from the people like Fauci and Gates who manipulate us. We need to stand up and oppose and stop social distancing. Listen to Del Bigtree, to Dr Judy Mikovits, to Dr Buttar, to Robert F Kennedy, Jr etc.
Mike Tammaro absolutely correct! Greetings from Hungary!
@@pohakumana Hate to inform you but vegetarians are a minority; less then 10% of Americans.
@@patriciatursi1 👈 pull your dress down little man...your dumbfuckery is showing again.
Let's all stop eating meat and lets see how fast these plants shutdown.
The Butcher at the White House should be tried for his crime to humanity.
Pull your head out of your arse critical thinking is being clouded
I doubt if that will ever happen . Trumpt is a criminal that should be tried in the international court but that would be wishful thinking .
@@teresitauy5532 what crimes show me evidence
We should sue the president for all the loss of work and kids losing their education and the everlasting trauma that is caused to the ones who lost loved ones. Forced to quarantine and the loss os social life. The traumatic distress of inability to to provide for family's with loss of jobs and the edd failed system. This is bullshit
Government is not following the constitution by not providing for the common good. Wake up America.
All we talk about is business rights, what happened to labor, unions, respect for workers. We have moved so far right, the right to life has been taken away when your company will fire you for being sick.
The only right to life that seems to count is the anti abortion fetus right to life no matter the conditions its born into because once its born they stop caring
These young Latino workers and leaders have spoken so eloquently. Brought tears to my eyes really. 😭
There's something wrong when our elected representatives aren't our voice. Get on the phone and call your congressman or woman, and tell them, this is unacceptable. These workers should have PPEs and get hazard pay
Irate Pirate ,Good luck with that!the idiots in the republican party, is going to fall on deaf ears! No matter how much we bitch they’re not gonna do anything except fill their own pockets with money especially once they get out of office. If you’re Republican hell don’t even bother Mitch McConnell is the one who rules the way and so is Lindsey Graham!Use your votes that’s the only choice you have if you know somebody who can’t get to the voting booth because of transportation get them there make sure that you volunteer at a voting booth in a remote part of your state! It will make all the difference in the world other than calling these idiots on the phone
@@kathyfranklund3628 that's why we're voting them out in November. Please, vote blue. I'm very afraid the GOP's going to pull something criminal to deprive us of that right. They've been getting away with sooo many crimes, they feel emboldened
This is disgusting on so many levels. What we do to animals to eat their corpses + thiese disgusting jobs are for poor immigrants that have no choice...
Stay home snowflake or go fucking talk to an Indian about eating meat! IDIOT!
@@hunsadersrockinranch : Keep running the cardiac treadmill ......... and see if coronary disease doesn't come knocking at your door or maybe something even worse like the big 'C.'
CORONA RY DISEASE.!
Human being are so disconnected. They demand respect for their bodies and love as human beings whilst they are systematically desecrating the bodies of other salient beings.
Try the jungle. See If you can make it out alive with other beings when hunger sets in.
I think you meant "sentient"
Not "salient"
@@obobobobobi wow, i never heard that argument before, How original. Probably I would eat plants if I was in a jungle. Lucky for me in live in a society abundant with fruit, vegetables and and thousands of vegan options so I don't need to try the jungle. I am talking about how human beings are disconnected, I am nit having a 'what if you were alone on a desert island' conversation.
@@rachelusher5390 I know you would eat grass and cockroaches as it is a steady diet in communist countries.
I was talking about what you call other beings they would eat you in a heartbeat because of hunger. Maybe you should pray to god to remove hunger so we all can leave happy with all the animals until then I ll eat meat.
@@obobobobobi Try intelligence and forgo the false equivalency you present.
is this really america? home of the brave? land of the free? holy shit. this is really happening.
sandy kitty , yes it is!,and it has always been! We just disguise it and we put our blinders on ,to not see what is really happening in the world because it’s so hard for us to swallow that we have Sunk so low on the American dream! Why do you think people are out there buying thousand dollar iPhones every couple of months even though they really can’t afford it! The younger generation does not believe in saving money for days like this! Why because they believe in Socialism when it’s convenient for them! Like oh getting welfare like getting unemployment getting food stamps getting free medical help or little cost medical help! We’re getting rent subsidies because we were too stupid to use birth control and have three kids from three different fathers which is totally acceptable right now just like it is totally acceptable for the president of United States to have had three different wives,And does not believe in any religion other way as it suits him for his political agenda! The President of the United States is one of the ones that will hire a hooker in tonight right to your face as he walks out pulling his pants up! And lie to his wife and say oh sorry it didn’t mean anything because I don’t love her! The only reason that Melania,married this man is to stay in the United States and she made it official by having a child with him! Therefore then her parents were brought over! She had no idea what she was getting herself into when she said he would marry him,as he was cheating on his third wife! She knew exactly what she was doing! He was rich he was white and he held her American citizenship by birth!Which means she has no values either because she let it happen! You know there still means a law, that says you can’t sue someone for wrecking your marriage either it be a wife or a husband! It’s still a true law they have never reversed it!
Really sad.....how these hard working women/men are being treated......the underbelly of then US is not pretty...... the rich do not care what happens to the working class. McConnell is a horrible person.....all the meat plant workers should just walk out because of virus.....see how long it will for the big shots come begging for them to return
The Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost. We have aggressively killed, controlled and manipulated people all over the world and like Jim Marrs wrote about, the US is The New Fourth Reich. Look up Operation Paperclip to trace what is happening to us.
@@bettyannewilkinson8686 Blacks are dying at disproportionate numbers in the inner cities. Latino's at the meat plants. Call me a grim cynic. This is a GOP wet dream come true. Who needs to vote suppress or gerrymander when Covid will take care of it for you? These opportunists have absolutely 0 morals. The people need to rise up. Or at minimum, VOTE.
Kathy Franklund Yes it's AMERIKKKA! Wake the hell up already and stop living in denial!
He can't sign an order to stop the workers striking though!? What happened to workers solidarity?
They're afraid of retaliation. Boycott to do your small but signicant part. There's power in your pocket book. Even a small one.
EVER SINCE REAGAN,, REPUBLICANS HAVE CRUSHED UNIONS, AND ANY ORGANIZED LABOR MOVEMENTS, IN THE UNITED STATES... IT'S TIME TO REVERSE THAT... WORKERS SHOULD HAVE RIGHTS!!! AND A LIVING WAGE!!! WITH HEALTHCARE, PROVIDED!!
Meat is not essential at all. I and others have been living healthy without it for years.
I am boycotting Tyson and all its affiliated name brands. I don't eat beef and pork and now I'm going to add chicken to the list. Please look up all the meat Packers and affiliated brands and do not buy their products.
I already don't consume dairy so there's no need to ask...
meaning you have been buying Tyson up til now??
My question is why did it take this for you to act?
Why were you not buying your chicken or any other meant form your local farmers and ranches?
Why were you buying your meat from a big box store, and not your local butcher shop?
I'll tell you why.... You are cheap, and you like the cheap prices that are brought to you by this big filthy corporations. You also like the cheap slave like illegal labor. You like all that cheapness in all that you eat. YOU and those like you are to blame.
This has nothing to do with eating meat, and everything to do with being CHEAP about it O_O
@@2bRealist Meat is nothing but a waste of resources, and if you want to make it worse, then simply do what you are doing. To think we can supply the huge demand for animal prodcuts with local sourced meat is absolutely ridiculous.
I went vegetarian about 6 months ago. Just a coincidence lol.
@@veg9097 I have a self sufficient homestead / farm... I'm good, but I do worry about the rest of the nation.
Meat is NOT a waste of resources, unless YOU are wasting those resources.
Buy responsible. Buy Local!
This virus has shown us all the inequalities that the poor or minorities face
I have to get a tooth extraction the oral surgeon can’t do surgeries cause of the Pandemic but these people must go to work cause we need to eat meat?? No body goes hungry if you can’t eat meat... this pandemic is about privilege and for those who don’t have it
It's true actually. We grow enough food to feed the entire population of the planet. This is the same as those moron spoilt crybabies who just have to have a haircut. Missed the needs vs wants lesson in kindergarten.
Maybe try abraiding with hydrogen peroxide for some relief? ...oral abraiding instructions are on the label. I've knocked out some toothaches that way.
I'm a plant based eater and this for me highlights the absolute cruelty of animal ag. Main contributor of climate change as well. But this is about the total authority of corporatism. No voice or basic rights.
jani will try that. I have had a hewdach fo 5 days, from a bad tooth.
@@annettetaylor5478 there is actually a toothache plant that was traditionally used for...wait for it..toothaches. the buds create a numbing sensation
@@janefreeman4121 oh no another cow fart conspiracy theorist
I would be worried that the meat could be infected from the worker's
Trumps true colours shining through.. again!
What's going to happen if people ignore this Executive Order from the Shirker-in-Chief???
TRUMP WON'T COMMAND THE PRODUCTION OF TEST KITS FOR THE VIRUS!!! BUT DON'T GET BETWEEN DONNIE AND HIS HAMBURGER!!!! THAT'S A NATIONAL EMERGENCY!!! IT'S ALL ABOUT PRIORITIES!! AND TRUMP'S ARE UPSIDE DOWN!!!! HAMBURGERS OVER HEALTHCARE WORKERS!!! AND HAMBURGERS OVER THE MEAT PLANT WORKERS!!!! GIVE THEM PAID SICK LEAVE!!! OR WE COULD ALL GET SICK,, FROM TAINTED MEAT!!!!
@@johnedward3404 Trump is about as compassionate as a serial killer...oh wait, have you seen these Covid-19 stats???
...yup definitely a serial killer.
"Social" Distancing should be changed to "Physical" Distancing and an explanation given of why we need to do this. A lot of people need to be taught at least 20 times until it automatically sinks in and becomes an automatic action.
There are countries where this wasn't used and they are doing fine. I believe it is destructive.
@@patriciatursi1 Name 2.
Physical Distance :
deadbody> head ~ toe = Six feet
@Patricia Tursi. Yes, name one country? Are you getting your news from Fox news only to be so uninformed?
This is a problem in Canada as well. Alberta in specific.
This is also happening in Alberta, Canada.
Boycott these meat companies.
Just go vegan.
1) Plenty of meat in the stores in my town.
2) Most of us could cut back on meat in our diet.
Is the meat clean of viral infection? It isn't being tested.....
@@juliewigner6549 I think you should stay away from eating bat wings for a while to be safe.
It’s time that everybody stood up and fought big corporations black white Hispanic Chinese every working man is a victim to slave labor
True That it’s easier said than done. They’ll be afraid of going hungry and it’s totally legitimate
if you except the wage they offer or that you negotiate for how is that slave labor???????
Soo interestingly it all comes down to the dark point how humans treat animals. Nature.
Karma, this whole thing started from meat eating
Exactly
Hummm not exactly. The deforestation all over the world push the animals (bats and other...) to get closer to urban area...and these animal...before they where been eated by humans, they used to defect in the forest, causing a good bio-organic dejection for the ecosystem wich they used to live in. But, when they defect in whitin high density of populated human aera. The connection with human/animal contamination can be one of the many reason you can get infected. We have to put nuances to the bigger problem. I'm not debating on if it's good or not to eat meat...but we have to consider so much more aspect than just one .
@@martinemm-t806 what's the main cause of deforestation?
@@veg9097 Urbanisation, meat production, mono agriculture...3 factors...not just one
@@martinemm-t806 I asked for the Main cause, I know there are other factors.
Hard at work turning the word "Democracy" into a really bad connotation.
I switched over to Tofu over 5 years ago.
This is America, and people have a right to work in a safe place!!!
All workers on the food processing industries should be regularly tested and this includes all involved on distribution of the above. No one should be working without adequate protection.
Has the meat been UV sterilized before packing?
Meat is not food. "Meat" is why we have viruses, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, etc. People have the power to embrace a healthy whole foods plant based lifestyle, and set themselves, those workers, and the beautiful innocent animals, free.
Welp, time to go vegetarian or vegan.
Welp? It's not hard to be kind to animals and improve your health.
@@anitam241Correct, more now the ever.
Vegan a year and half and don't miss meat at all.
@@krimmer66 I have been been wanting to switch to the lifestyle but was always a little intimidated by it. I will give it go. I know that vegan food has come a long way in terms of taste.
@@jwalt8019 Good for you. Vegan food isn't what people think it is. It's not just the fake meats and cheeses, the produce section has tons of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Can we find where the meat from these plants are being shipped to?
meat plants a critical infrastructure. hahaha... will americans die if they give up meat for a while.
its not about people dying, its about investors losing money. Money is all they care about.
Meanwhile, Alex Jones is threatening to eat his neighbors on his webcast if theirs a meat shortage.
That insane idiot ?😡
He's a nut job but if people don't care about abusing and killing billions of animals every day, then eat people.
Rebecca,
For sure some of them have it coming. HOWEVER cannibalism isn't healthy. Alex has apparently lost it.🤯
@@ursamagickmt672 Alex needs to get his show taken away from him and get COVID already. I saw another episode where he claimed a chocolate and chicken shake was healthy. He even drank it on camera.(barf).
As for cannibalism, it was practiced by tribes for a long time for survival and spiritual reasons...maybe still. I'm not sure if it's unhealthy or not. National Geography had an article about it but it was inclusive. Only thing I found was a disease called "kuru" from people eating human brains.
Rebecca Benway Maybe Alex Jones in his tank could be a victim of friendly fire, those wal mart looking slobs with their automatic weapons don’t seem to know what they’re doing.
"Allowing" workers to stay home when sick is not enough, they should be forcing them to stay home.
cruelty behavior murders on human's relationships also;to children, to parents ,to families,and to others. have to dismiss from teaching cruelty behaviors for the next generations !
We need new ways.
We can make do with less meat. Make the plants safe for workers. Federal Government should be helping all American citizens in every capacity. Our "President" and his Administration has failed the American people and anyone living in US.
neander people and arians cant survive off plants there mixed with wolf and dogs.
Trump said the people will be taken care of by the companies..(sarcasm)
What's going to happen if people ignore this Executive Order from the Shirker-in-Chief???
@@tonymemory2279 well thanks for that information, because I was unaware that I've been dead for 12 years. All this time I thought I was surviving just fine without any animal flesh or maternity secretions!
@@aryastark3148 you still have a human ancestry like indian persian , we are all mixed with both creations. trust me if you were 100% pure neander grey eyed you cannot survive on veggies. someone in your family is brown eyed and thats only reason your hanging by a thread. i literally know people that cant eat only veggies. just do a search and see. they get sick. its blood type.
Solidarity with the workers!
Also at 2:50, the packages are in Russian. Just thought that might be important.
If people really knew what goes on in these meat and poultry plants we would all be vegans. The worst part is for many if these workers these jobs are their only option. Very sad.
Here's the solution, don't eat meat or cut down. Look at what happened to gas prices skyrocketed down same will happen to meats and poultry. Hit them where they understand in their pocketbook, money is all they understand.
I remember reading the novel, The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. This brings to mind the working conditions at the meatpacking plants portrayed in the novel.
Boycott meat!
There is safety in numbers. There is also safety in mass numbers that vote against all corrupt politicians & their uncaring big businesses.
You cannot blame the Iranians, the Cubans, the Iraqis, the Russians, the Libyans, the Syrians, the Venezuelan, The Afghanistan or anybody else. This lays directly at the US government's door...
Hello, it's happening the same here in Brazil, especially in the south part (RS).
We will look back at this pandemic and realized we were dooped once again...
benjamin seng ,Oh we don’t have to look back we’re living it right now
better you look at a dictionary and realize dooped is not a word
Maybe Tyson would have "detected" a sick person if the sick person would have called in sick????
This is like WW2 when the Nazis forced Jewish prisoners to work in their munitions & other factories
@Nota Bene Of course it was horrendous in WW2 but it is staggering that with its own history of slavery the USA hierarchy today is so callous towards the weak, disadvantaged, vulnerable & marginalized in its own society. Probably even more so is that the State of Israel populated by many Holocaust descendants, perpetuates its own brand of murderous apartheid against the Palestinians with the full support of corporate America's political manipulators.
You're right! And people have sacrificed a lot more to save this country! If you can't handle the office, get out and let the next person take the job!
@Nota Bene and everyone plus you sound like a bunch of karens. its amazing the level of stupidity in these
They should ignore Trump and do the right thing. He needs to be swaddled in a straight jacket and left in a padded room. Or put him in prison, where he belongs.
Where is OSHA?
This is not just trump's dropping the ball also those who put their plans in place ☻
Time for everyone to go vegan for a few months
United We Stand 🙏
How about meatless forever. Smithfield would go out of business if it were up to me. (Recently Vegetarian)
It's a great time to try a beautiful whole-food, plant-based diet.
Might be a good time to explore being a vegetarian.
Its Animals that 'don't have a voice' :(
These workers literally put the food in our mouths. Medicare for All! Support Living Wages, Safe Work Places and Human Decency
sooo since these works are so vital to the US infrastructure does that mean they will get paid more? I'm guessing not.
I have been watching/listening to Democracy Now for over 20 years, depending on Amy and crew to deliver the “real news” , but along the way I have observed that what is being delivered is not “the news”, but stories presented in such a way as to bolster their position on any given topic. As the Covid-19 story has unfolded, I have seen that this tendency is further exacerbated to the point that I can no longer trust that what is being presented is in fact...the facts. I pt sounds like an amped-up version of what mainstream media is also reporting. There is lots of documented evidence available that tells a very different story. Seems to me that Democracy now should reign-in utilizing certain events to further their agenda and stick with whit is in fact actually happening. Where’s the news of the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation’s part in all of this? Or the facts that Robert Kennedy Jr is putting forth? the list goes on...
Close down Animal Agriculture industries. Put workers on Plant Agriculture jobs. There aren't reports of COVID19 hot spots with plant ag facilities.
Calling decomposing flesh and animal secretions 'food' is the problem. Slaughterhouses need to be leveled and turned into greenhouses.
This is sad. Poor s. Dakota
Meat eaters please BOYCOTT and stop buying these products until these worker’s DEMANDS are MET. Seriously, this chance to make a difference is here and do the right thing. BOYCOTT !!
In my day we called them slaughter houses.
I don’t know what the Latest Vernacular is‼️⁉️
Don't think you can stop eating Tyson chicken or do meatless Mondays? I live in rural Tennessee and have driven by a Tyson chicken barn and caught the indistinguishable smell of death........Think about it.
Good time to go vegan and save the planet
Okay, I'll ask the unspeakable question: If the meat from those plants are exposed to the positive workers and then that meat is sold and eaten, can the customers who eat it catch cover-19?
Don't EAT RAW meat
Vote Blue 2020!!
Why do we not all have tests by now? Cover that story, please.
Excellent work, Sindy and Alejandro!! May your path be successful.
Eating meat is gross, working at a slaughterhouse is barbaric and if you have a job on the line I'm sure you'll agree it is one of the worst jobs on earth.
This is where the disease emerges.
Let's take this moment and get real about a future without eating animals.
M4ALL NOW!!!
It is time to go vegan fools!!!
STOP EATING MEAT
America is first alright, what a mess.
Poor animals most are slaughtered and stuffed in processed foods to just be tossed away from storing for a long period of time or to be thrown away for passing the 6 min mark at a fast food resteraunt.
Yellow pea and/hemp. Good sources of protein iron and omegas.😎
Almond,coconut and advacodos production have very negative impacts on environment and people as well as these conditions in meat processing plants.
FDA and CDC will be/is crippled in ability to properly inspect and enforce safe food supplies.
What is effects of the virus is on the meat from these plants?
I feel sorry for the meatpacking workers. You aren't being treated humanewly. But neither are the animals. Let's give the humans better jobs & a Union. Let's stop eating meat. Covid19 started at a wet market in China, eating bats & other "exotic" animals. What is the difference pigs, chickens & cattle crowded in pens, where they can't turn around? If the humans aren't allowed a safe & sanitary working environment,can you imagine how poorly the animals are being treated? So you eat the meat from an animal that has suffered & lived in filthy conditions. Not by their choosing. Then handled & processed by humans that work In unsanitary, unacceptable & untenable conditions, "not by their own choosing" but out of necessity. Now some are contaminated by the Covid19 virus, forced to work because they could lose their job. And
then you "choose" to eat meat. Something is terribly wrong.
WHAT HAPPENS IF A PERSON WITH COVID TOUCHES MEAT, DOES THE MEAT TRANSFER THE VIRUS?
The virus supposedly transfers most effectively on hard, unyielding surfaces. And supposedly not as well on moist,
Sponge-like textures, but sure, any surface being handled and rehandled could be a transfer zone
As far as I understand it.
It can if the spread the germs. It might live on meat for a few days.
Dont buy meat
Tell trump and gov to Declare meat non essential to help reduce covid19 severity and public health problems!
Declaring meat essential and forcing meat plants to open puts the countries health at greater risk by people potentionally catching covid at meat plants then spreading it to the population, and people potentionally eating meat contaminated with covid then contracting covid that way.
A healthy plant based diet is better for the immune system than meat.
if they declared meat eggs and dairy non essential, covid and other contagious illness would likely not be as high/common and or severe as otherwise.
Declaring meat essential and forcing meat plants to open also puts the country at greater risk in general for things like heart disease, (the worlds leading cause of death largely caused by overconsumption of animal products), and other meat related illnesses that kill many more people than covid and people with these illnesses r at higher risk of getting a severe covid case, and if they get a symptomatic or more severe case they r more likely on av to spread it than an asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic person with it,
and increases healthcare costs more than what they would likely be if they ate plant based instead.
If they really cared about the publics health, they shouldn't force meat plants to open or declare them essential. Seems they just care more about money than public health.
Tell gov to not care about money more than public health regarding meat plants.
Many meat factory workers have been getting and spreading covid19 more so than alot of other people reportedly on average.
Shut down meat factories, animal agriculture, hunting, and fishing, while making sure everyone has access to a proper vegan diet.
Reportedly many meat factories still r having workers work close to eachother, and r fireing them if they want to take off sick so many work while sick.
Its not worth keeping meat factories open just to make people fat and sick and increase covid risk.
Tell People to go to trumps twitter and email and tell him meat is not essential and why declaring it not essential would likely reduce covid severity and health problems in general more than if it isn't.
Do not buy meat cuz If people dont buy meat, those people wont get covid from meat plants cuz they wont be there, theyll be at home or doing a hopefully safer job.
Don't buy meat cuz it might be coming from a plant where people are dying from covid. Not only does it increase your risk of getting contaminated meat or meat packaging and potentionally u getting covid from it, and increase your risk of getting covid by the workers getting covid from the plant then spreading it to others who might spread it to you, its like putting the meat plant workers at risk. They wouldnt be dying to provide people with meat if people didnt buy or eat meat.
They don't just stay home probably cuz they r deemed essential thus if they stay home they will probably be fired then when this is over they probably wont have that job to go back to and its probably hard for them to find a better job, ( slaughterhouse jobs r often jobs of last resort for money), thus they might prefer to go to work sick or to work with sick workers for lack of a better way to get their needs met.
and i dont kno if they would get a check from gov to stay home like non essential people, and i dont know if they would qualify for a check from gov if they r not citizens, thus they might prefer to go to work sick or to work with sick workers for lack of a better way to get their needs met.
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Convince gov to let everyone have an acre of free tax free fertile land to grow a food forest on and live on.
End farm subsidies. End tax
breaks to farms exsept those who grow healthy vegan food for human consumption exsept no large mono crops.
End mandatory school, ged and hsd requirements, age limits, minimum wage, and exsessive regs.
People should be able to learn how to do a good job they want so they can afford a house and car before 18.
For those who and whos parents can afford it, tax deductible chairty and or the $ (about 180,000dollars in us) spent on k thru 12 per student could pay for it and trash k thru 12 and some of that money could be used to promote more independence and healthy living.
It's really wonderful to see people standing up for all those who don't have a voice
Very disheartening story. Glad that Democracy is covering this injustice for undocumented workers who are truly voiceless in such a dire time. Mainstream media does not care about these people so you will not hear a snippet of these kind of stories which are very real and serious. This is why we can only rely on independent journalism like DN to tackle the terrible fate that these poor desperate workers have to succumb to. My heart goes out to all these workers. It’s given me newly found respect an admiration for all that they do to provide us with meat and poultry. I’ve been cutting down huge on meat because of this kind of story but I do understand they still need a job.
If everyone stopped eating carcasses ( fake beef patties are great)!!!! We wouldn’t be experiencing any of this from the beginning in China to the US
That is a very interesting point!! There are horrifying unhygienic conditions and risks permeating every sector of the meat industry!!
From herding conditions to slaughter to packing to market packaging and distribution!!!
DAMN...
I boycott national meat purveyors anyway, I get all of my meat locally. Read, less than 50 miles away.
Meatless May Mondays? How about meatless always? There is no nutritional necessity to eat animals (or their secretions). As a species we evolved and thrived for 100s of thousands of years eating only plants so there is no reason why we cannot do it again.
I’ll take my chances starving to death unless I find remote work (just graduated law school). I don’t trust this place right now. I already eat a 98% vegan, 2% vegetarian diet, but no money.
I've been vegan for a dozen years, on an extremely low budget. It's fine.
The plant based alternatives are better for you, taste better, & involved -0- cruelty to animals. Any greedy employer that forces anyone to work under these conditions should be closed down permanently. Human beings do not need meat to live, and having seen the animal cruelty alone was enough to make me go vegetarian. Looks like the cruelty doesn't stop at animals, but includes their employee's too. Let them close down, we don't need them.
I think I'll pass on meat for six months
At least those companies should pay for the workers' hospital treatment if they do get the virus and get sick!
S U E ! ! !
And look for another job.
Meatless Mondays, I will do that!