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“One of the nation’s largest pork processing facilities is shutting down indefinitely after over 230 employees tested positive for COVID-19, bolstering concerns about food supply chain problems that have left farmers, food banks, grocery stores, and agricultural and food service workers scrambling to keep crops harvested, shelves stocked, and people fed during the coronavirus pandemic.” …
Remember this? No wonder so many workers are infected with the coronavirus now……”The new rule will end limits on how fast slaughterhouses can kill pigs. It will also shift responsibility for removing defective meat during the slaughtering process from government inspectors to plant workers.” New Trump Admin Hog Slaughtering Rule ‘Will Result in the Fox …
“The pesticide industry says fungicides increase fruit and vegetable yields by 50 to 95 percent, allowing growers to gain $12.8 billion in profits. But the chemicals are showing up in U.S. waterways, and little is known about their environmental effects. One or more fungicides were found in 20 of 29 streams sampled in the U.S. …
Monsanto’s Roundup Kills And Damages More than Weeds By Shepherd Bliss (Sebastopol, California) Protests against Monsanto’s Roundup, with its poisonous, weed-killing glyphosate, have spread around the globe. An arm of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a probable cause of cancer in 2015. California’s Environmental Protection Agency (CA EPA) recently decided to label it …
Glyphosate: “Monsanto’s Roundup Kills and Damages More Than Weeds.” Read More »