Exposing the Toxic Underbelly of Tyson Foods

Food with Mark Bittman

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Reporter Alice Driver talks with Mark and Kate about her work with Arkansas-based Tyson employees – many of whom are immigrants and refugees – for her book, Life and Death of the American Worker. She explains why the number of injuries at the company is higher than reported; how employees feel gaslit; why support for meatpacking companies – and, by default, their cruel practices – is bipartisan; and the growing role of children in the industry.

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2:04.0	Search Zero with an ex because healthy business is beautiful business. Tyson Foods was founded in Springdale, Arkansas in 1935 and is still headquartered there.
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