Slachthuizen zijn als verpleegtehuizen en ziekenhuizen verspreiders van het Coronavirus en ook kent men daar veel gevallen van Coronabesmetting, zo ook het slachthuis
van Waterloo (VS) waar Tyson, de op 1 na grootste slachter ter wereld is gevestigd (en dat vaak met extra
veel dierenleed….)

CounterPunch
bericht over dat slachthuis waar 1.000 werknemers positief werden
getest op het Coronavirus, ondanks dat heeft het bedrijf aangekondigd
dat het de ‘productie’ hervat…… Wel beloofde de top van het
bedrijf dat werknemers dagelijks zullen worden getest en dat ze
toegang krijgen tot een verpleegkundige……

Tyson is
op wereld niveau de nummer 2 ‘producent’ van kippen-, varkens- en rundvlees en is in
het verleden al een aantal keren in opspraak geraakt…… Bijvoorbeeld
door metaaldeeltjes in kippenvlees, rubber in kipnuggets, het
martelen van dieren en in 2003 gaf het bedrijf toe water dusdanig te
hebben vervuild dat elk leven in dat water doodging door de afvoer
van fosfor in oppervlaktewater…….

Voorts dient nog gemeld te worden dat ook de dierenbeulen die in slachthuizen werken, een groot gevaar lopen om antibioticaresistente bacteriën op te lopen, zoals ook de dierenbeulen (die zich boer durven te noemen) met megastallen een grote kans lopen om deze bacteriën op en in zich te dragen, niet voor niets worden zij en hun gezinsleden als ze opgenomen moeten worden in het ziekenhuis, meteen geïsoleerd zodat andere patiënten gevrijwaard blijven van deze gevaarlijke bacteriën……

Lees
verder en zie ten overvloede nog eens hoe belangrijk het is dat de
mens stopt met het eten van vlees, bovendien is de consumptie van kadavers
slecht voor een aantal belangrijke organen in het menselijk lichaam
en jaagt de enorme uitstoot van methaangas de klimaatverandering nog
verder aan, waar de uitstoot van dit gas in Nederland ervoor zorgt dat ‘wij’, vergeleken met grote landen, zelfs een onevenredig grote aanjager zijn van de klimaatverandering……….

May
12, 2020

Tyson
is a Repeat Offender

by Martha
Rosenberg

Photograph
Source: Animal Freedom – CC
BY 2.0

Even though 1,000
workers at Tyson’s slaughterhouse in Waterloo, IA have tested
positive for the coronavirus, it has reopened. Tyson has said last
week it would begin
slaughtering pigs.

The company promised that workers
would receive daily screenings and access to nurse practitioners
but many who can transmit the coronavirus are asymptomatic. At two
other Tyson Iowa plants,
956 workers have tested positive. Meanwhile, “Millions of
animals– chickens, pigs and cattle– will be depopulated because
of the closure of our processing facilities, Tyson
admits.

This is far from the first time
Tyson, the
world’s second largest chicken, beef, and pork producer, has
been in the news with food production scandals. Tyson had sordid food
production history before the coronavirus.
Here is its rap sheet.

In June of 2019, 36,420 pounds
of
Tyson chicken nuggets were recalled due to rubber contamination.
In March of 2019, Tyson
recalled 12
million pounds of ready-to-eat Tyson chicken strip products for
possible metal contamination.
In 2008, Tyson was
caught injecting eggs with the dangerous antibiotic gentamicin,
linked to serious side effects. The previous year the government
disallowed the Tyson slogan “Raised Without Antibiotics,”
because the ionophores
it adds to poultry feed are antibiotics.
In 2004, an internal Tyson
memo revealed that the wives of two veterinarians stationed at Tyson
plants in Mexico had been receiving about $2,700 a month “for
years,”
reported the New York Times. When Tyson executives discovered
the bribes, the payments were simply switched to the veterinarians
themselves.
Doctors will submit one
invoice which will include the special payments formally [formerly?]
being made to their spouses along with there [sic] normal consulting
services fee,” said a Tyson’s audit department memo. No one was
charged in the scandal and Greg Lee, Tyson’s chief administrative
officer who received the e-mail about the veterinarians, received
$1 million and a $3.6 million consulting contract when he
retired.
In 2003, Tyson
pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Water Act with effluvia
from its Sedalia, MO, facility and agreed to pay $7.5 million. But
before its probation ended, Tyson was charged by the state of
Oklahoma with polluting the Illinois River watershed. Poultry
polluters eject as much phosphorous into the watershed as a city of
ten million people, said State Attorney General Drew Edmondson after
bringing the changes. Phosphorus causes overgrowth of algae and
other aquatic plants which chokes off oxygen vital to other marine
life, especially animals.
In 2003, Virgil Butler, a
worker at Tyson’s Grannis, AR, chicken slaughterhouse revealed how
birds regularly
miss the blade intended to kill them and are scalded alive in
the defeathering tank. “When this happens, the chickens flop,
scream, kick, and their eyeballs pop out of their heads,” wrote
Butler in a sworn affidavit. “Then, they often come out the other
end with broken bones and disfigured and missing body parts because
they’ve struggled so much in the tank.”
Such birds are so common that
they’re called “red birds” in the industry and account for two
percent of US chickens according to the National
Chicken Council (NCC)
In 2001, Tyson
was served with a federal indictment charging that the company
paid smugglers to transport illegal workers from Mexico across the
Rio Grande, after which they were supplied with phony social
security cards and brazenly paid with corporate checks. “This is a
company with a bad history,” Rev. Jim Lewis, an Episcopal minister
in Arkansas, told the New York Times. “They cheat these workers
out of pay and benefits, and then try to keep them quiet by
threatening to send them back to Mexico.”
In 1997
Tyson bribed former agriculture secretary in the Clinton
administration Mike Espy with gifts to influence legislation in 1997
leading to his disgraced resignation. Tyson
paid $6 million to settle the accusations but the two convicted
Tyson executives facing prison time were pardoned by President
Clinton.

Is it any surprise that a company
that bribes federal officials and regulators, pollutes public
waterways, mistreats animals and sells contaminated products would
subject workers to a viral outbreak? Already three
Tyson employees have died from the coronavirus.

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