Anxieties are rising.

As you can see, Eugene is also very anxious.

Eugene is actually always very anxious.

That's the kind of cat he is.

He gets that for me.

And he's here to comfort us all, which is helpful.

And there's a lot.

There's a lot going on.

Most of it, I have a number of the stories that I wanted to talk about about immigration,

because I think immigration is the synergy between immigration and the meat industry is growing as issues that we really, really have to be paying attention to.

And I think it's just fascinating and extremely, extremely troubling.

All right, my first story is from the American prospect.

The escalating bloody exploitation of meat workers under Trump.

Conditions in meatpacking plants are set to return to scenes

from the jungle. Yeah, pretty strong. You know, most of the articles that I'm talking about today

are about the situation for the workers. And I think that it's a really important time for us to

recognize what a powerful issue this is for the animals as well. Not that it's not

important enough for the workers themselves. This article is mostly about the line speed increases.

And, you know, we've talked about them a little bit before, but this goes into a lot of detail.

Brooke Collins, who of course is the Secretary of Agriculture, announced in March that she would

be extending line speed

increased waivers granted to poultry and pork processing plants.

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