OTHER PEOPLE GET THE MONEY, WE GET THE POLLUTION.. and INFECTION!
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
A coalition of worker, environmental, and animal activist groups are calling for a week of action against Tyson Foods for the conditions which have created rampant Covid infections in their slaughterhouses. Chloe Waterman from Friends of the Earth joins Thom to raise the alarm at the slow poisoning of our country by the meat industry.
And in the context of Covid spreading rapidly in the red states, what is Trump's endgame here? Will he drop out and keep over 900 million dollars in campaign funds? Why is Trump sending out SO MANY fundraising emails right now?? And what is up with his push to open the schools?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | Aline with this is Chloe Waterman, the program manager of Friends of the Earth. |
| 0:22.0 | FOE.org is the website. |
| 0:24.7 | FOE underscore US is their Twitter handle. |
| 0:27.5 | Chloe, welcome to the program. |
| 0:28.9 | I understand that Friends of the Earth is joining |
| 0:31.5 | with 120 other groups for specific actions, a week of action |
| 0:37.4 | against Tyson Foods. Tell us about this. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:42.0 | This is an exciting week to see so many allies across different sectors, |
| 0:47.0 | environmental groups, labor groups, animal welfare, band together to address the horrific |
| 0:52.2 | treatment of workers that Hystin has had during COVID-19. |
| 0:57.2 | The jobs in these slaughterhouses are, even before COVID are among the most dangerous jobs in the country, but during COVID are among the most dangerous jobs in the country. |
| 1:03.9 | But during COVID, it's just been a catastrophe. |
| 1:07.0 | As of today, I just checked and there's |
| 1:10.0 | 34,000 workers that meet packing plants who have tested positive for COVID, more than 140 people have died. |
| 1:17.4 | And Tyson is responsible for a large number of those double the rate of any other meat packing |
| 1:22.2 | companies, so they really need the public to |
| 1:24.4 | pay attention and call on them to create a safe workplace for employees. |
| 1:28.4 | When Trump invoked the Defense Production Act and basically forced workers to go back into these plants. |
| 1:35.6 | I know some of them were shut down, some of them were even trying to retrofit in ways that might |
| 1:40.3 | protect some of the workers and they abandoned that because Trump said you've got to go back now. |
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