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  1. Trump’s Biggest Inaugural Donor Won Policy Changes That May Be Harming Workers

    The USDA let the dangerous meatpacking industry accelerate its line speeds. Accidents threaten workers and food safety.

    murica.website/2026/01/trumps-

  2. Trump’s Biggest Inaugural Donor Won Policy Changes That May Be Harming Workers

    The USDA let the dangerous meatpacking industry accelerate its line speeds. Accidents threaten workers and food safety.

    murica.website/2026/01/trumps-

  3. Trump’s Biggest Inaugural Donor Won Policy Changes That May Be Harming Workers

    The USDA let the dangerous meatpacking industry accelerate its line speeds. Accidents threaten workers and food safety.

    murica.website/2026/01/trumps-

  4. Trump’s Biggest Inaugural Donor Won Policy Changes That May Be Harming Workers

    The USDA let the dangerous meatpacking industry accelerate its line speeds. Accidents threaten workers and food safety.

    murica.website/2026/01/trumps-

  5. Trump’s Biggest Inaugural Donor Won Policy Changes That May Be Harming Workers

    The USDA let the dangerous meatpacking industry accelerate its line speeds. Accidents threaten workers and food safety.

    murica.website/2026/01/trumps-

  6. Writing tonight about #medicine #meatpacking #monopolies #corporatism #FTC #LinaKhan #Tyson employing #Children #Project2025 #NationalSecurity and #Listeria

    Not as clear as I want it to be, but I'm trying to get into the habit of knocking out longer essay pieces without as much polish. Not because I want to be a less polished writer, but b/c I too often allow perfect to be an enemy of good.

    Check it out, let me know what you think, style, word choice, content, etc

    justinmcafee.com/posts/2024/yo

  7. From the filthy floors of Packingtown to Roosevelt’s reforms, learn about the dark side of the Gilded Age meatpacking industry. 🍖🔪 Explore my latest post: Blood on the Floor
    #History #FoodSafety #TheJungle #UptonSinclair #ProgressiveEra #Meatpacking forgottenfiles.substack.com/p/

  8. Some "decommissioned #CoalPlants — sites that still sit in the center of webs of power lines could onboard future clean power onto the grid while avoiding the roadblocks around permitting new transmission corridors.

    The Geomap researchers found that many of the West’s sites — #greenhouses, #meatpacking facilities, chemical plants and #DataCenters — sit atop heat that could be tapped directly, without needing to generate electricity, which is a cheaper proposition."

    thehill.com/policy/energy-envi

  9. 'As this bill made its way to the [Iowa] governor’s desk, 13 other states have introduced — and in some cases advanced — similar rule-loosening pieces of legislation.' ambrook.com/research/labor/chi #foodstudies #meatpacking #ChildLabour #agriculture #society

  10. There's a new bill in (Iowa) town and folks are none too pleased about its implications for #child #labor in #meatpacking and other dangerous professions. My latest for Ambrook Research
    ambrook.com/research/iowa-chil

  11. CW: Reposted with CW: Carnism, Child Labor

    100+ #children—some as young as 13—were employed in hazardous jobs cleaning equipment like skull splitters, brisket saws, & bone cutters in #meatpacking plants in 8 states over 3 yrs
    Children were employed by Packers Sanitation Services Inc., #Wisconsin-based staffing agency that fills open jobs in food-services & agricultural industries on contract basis. PSSI is owned by Blackstone Group, and paid $1.5 million in penalties for the violations
    time.com/6256728/meatpacking-c

  12. @GottaLaff Slave labor abusing underage kids in the country of Eleanor Roosevelt, the outspoken, brilliant proponent of the Declaration of Human Rights.
    It's disgraceful - for the abusers of underage children!

    #HumanRights #Humanity #HumanityMatters #SlaveLabor #MeatPacking

  13. 100+ #children—some as young as 13—were employed in hazardous jobs cleaning equipment like skull splitters, brisket saws, & bone cutters in #meatpacking plants in 8 states over 3 yrs

    Children were employed by Packers Sanitation Services Inc., #Wisconsin-based staffing agency that fills open jobs in food-services & agricultural industries on contract basis. PSSI is owned by Blackstone Group, and paid $1.5 million in penalties for the violations

    time.com/6256728/meatpacking-c

  14. Lauren Kaori Gurley: U.S. fines firm $1.5 million for hiring kids to clean #meatpacking plants: Packers Sanitation Services allegedly employed minors as young as 13 to use dangerous chemicals to clean razor-sharp saws and other equipment

    Corporations want to return us to the #libertarian #hellscape of child labor in dangerous occupations.

    #childlabor #packerssanitationservices
    washingtonpost.com/business/20