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ARE AMERICAN WORKERS BEING REPLACED WITH MIGRANTS?

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Tyson Foods faces boycott calls for its hiring practices while we take a look at issues surrounding declining American farmland and foreign land ownership.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Last week we were reporting on you know a lot of these farmers you see farmer

0:05.7

protests throughout the world at this point and there's been really a negotiation

0:10.3

that they weren't at the table for and that is the farms are going to be gone and it's going to be replaced by what looks like

0:16.1

fake meat and insect protein. So along comes Tyson, Tyson foods, it's been a bad year for them.

0:23.2

We reported last week that they partnered with protects

0:26.2

to expand into the insect ingredient industry,

0:29.0

and then they started closing plants over this past year.

0:32.7

Here's one of the headlines.

0:33.5

Tyson is closing four plants,

0:34.9

his chicken sales slump.

0:36.4

You go into that is actually six total.

0:38.6

One of the most recent one is this one in Iowa.

0:41.3

Reuters is reporting it.

0:42.3

Tyson Foods to close Iowa Pork Plant with

0:44.6

1200 workers, just devastating that town. But last week as we're

0:48.9

reporting a report segment came out from Bloomberg regarding Tyson and it looked like this.

0:56.0

It already employs about 42,000 immigrants and refugees, but it sees this part of the workforce as a particularly good one for immigrants.

1:05.8

They like to stay.

1:06.8

They've often come from very difficult situations, and so the company is really investing

1:12.4

in a lot of services for them,

1:14.0

whether it's English language classes, certain child care services,

1:18.0

to try and convince them, you know, come stay,

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