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Haneen Zoabi

(Excerpt from Sista Resister: Bios of 50 Radical Women of Color Activists Resisting Sexism, Colonialism & Racism by m seenarine. Xpyr Press.)

Introduction: Zionism and Feminism

The overwhelming majority of people affected by divisive patriarchal ideologies such as racism, casteism, Zionism and Islamophobia are women and children. The survivors of thousands of years of misogynist authority and religion are also mostly women and children. Jews in the apartheid state of Israel consider themselves an integral part of the Anglo-sphere, and for over seven decades, Zionists have practiced some of the worse forms of Eurocentric oppression in the world against Indigenous Palestinians.

The 1947 UN Partition Plan for Palestine advocated for independent Arab and Jewish states, and a neutral Jerusalem. The UN Plan was rejected by Arab leaders, but the 1948 Arab–Jewish War led to the establishment of Israel over the former British territory. As tens of thousands of Eastern European Jews, Persian Jews, and other Jewish communities from across the globe migrated to colonize Palestine, they displaced millions of Indigenous Arabs, Christians, Druze and other local populations.

The West Bank and Gaza remained under Arab control, but the colonization continues with Zionist military occupation, illegal Jewish settlements, walled-in Palestinian ghettos, and the killings and imprisonment of Palestinians. As of 2013, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has condemned Israel in 45 resolutions. And, the UN General Assembly has adopted numerous resolutions saying that the strategic relationship between Israel and the USA encourages Israel to pursue aggressive and expansionist policies and practices.

Amira Hass, a Jewish female journalist argues, Israeli feminism has a dangerous mutation, namely the demand for an increasing number of women to assume “combat” roles. 

We do not know whether some day they will have to defend the homeland from a foreign army. Meanwhile, they – like the male soldiers – are maintaining the military occupation and defending its trophies: the outposts and the settlements, all of them illegal. The female soldiers, like the men, whether or not they are combat soldiers, are sent to defend the observance of the Jewish mitzvah to abuse, to rob, to expel.(156)

Yet, patriarchal hegemony, including Jewish variants, is never complete, and the feminist agency of Palestinian women like Haneen Zoabi is a model of resistance for struggles in the Global South.

Haneen's Biography

Haneen Zoabi (born May 23rd 1969) is a Palestinian educator, activist and politician. In 2009, Zoabi became the first woman elected from an Arab party to the Israeli Knesset, a parliament increasingly dominated by right-wing Jewish men. Haneen was born in Nazareth to a Muslim family. Nazareth, known as "the Arab capital of Israel," is the largest city in the Northern District. The population in the childhood home of Jesus is around 77,000, mostly Arab citizens of Israel, of whom 70 percent are Muslim and 30 percent Christian.

Sista Haneen described her parents as liberal Muslims, 

My parents are Muslims. They pray, they fast, they have been to Mecca, but they raised their children to think and feel as liberal, open-minded people.(157)

The Nazarene child grew up in a home where academic achievement was extolled. Her brother is an economist, with a degree from Tel Aviv University and one sister is an Arabic language instructor. Haneen earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and psychology, and a Master of Arts in communications. She became the first Arab citizen of Israel to graduate in media studies, and she established the first media classes in Arab schools.

After university, Nazareth's native daughter worked as a mathematics teacher and school inspector for the Ministry of Education. In 2003, Haneen co-founded an NGO to expose Israeli media bias. And in 2009, she resigned to focus on her political career. Zoabi decided to go into politics because of her family's commitment to public service, and her "desire to effect even small positive change for my people."

Zoabi joined the Balad party in 2001 and entered the Knesset after the Arab party won three seats in the 2009 elections. The female Arab Parliamentarian served as a member of the Israeli Knesset until 2019. Haneen is a fierce advocate for Palestinian, Arab, women and non-Jewish rights in the Zionist state. She comments, "I was not elected to keep silent or sit at the table and clap."

Like Jesus in his time, this female Nazarene is not afraid of speaking truth to power. Haneen's courageous voice interrupts the false narrative of Jewish Holocaust victims living peacefully in West Asia's only 'democratic' state. For example, the female Arab leader notes the hypocrisy of the Zionist state,

The state treats all Jews and Palestinians differently. Israel doesn't recognize us as the owners of this homeland. The theory is that we have equal civil rights, but the practice is very far from this.(158)

In May 2010, the Parliamentarian participated in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla to deliver aid to the besieged Palestinian territory. The female Parliamentarian was on board the Turkish ship, MV Mavi Marmara, when Israeli commandos attacked and killed nine activists.

Zoabi was arrested, and she accused the Jewish authorities of acting criminally after her release,

It was clear from the size of the force that boarded the ship that the purpose was not only to stop this sail, but to cause the largest possible number of fatalities in order to stop such initiatives in the future.(159)

On July 13th, 2010, the Israeli Knesset voted to strip the female Arab parliamentarian of the right to hold a diplomatic passport, to participate in Knesset discussions, and to vote in parliamentary committees. Asked to describe what is it like being a Palestinian in Israel, the Nazarene politician responded,

Israel did everything it could to make us forget our history: controlling education and the media, putting us in a ghetto, preventing us from having normal relations with the Arab world and visiting our families in Syria and Lebanon.(160)

Zoabi is opposed to any form of mandatory national service for Israel's second-class Arab citizens. In 2009, she characterized right-wing Israeli politicians like Avigdor Lieberman, Tzipi Livni, and Benjamin Netanyahu as "a bunch of fascists pure and simple."

However, Zoabi observed that Israeli president Netanyahu is "much more dangerous" than Lieberman, because he, "shares Lieberman's fascist views but takes care to sugarcoat his message for the international media. My anger is real, not a joke for the TV cameras. I will not shake the hands of these men."(161)

On July 29th, 2014, Zoabi was suspended again from the Knesset for six months. Of the parliament’s 120 members, at least 65 are part of the Zionist right and far-right. Nazareth's daughter regards the two-state solution as politically unrealistic, and the idea that Israel is a Jewish state as inherently racist. Instead, the Palestinian parliamentarian advocates a single state shared by Jews and Palestinian Arabs alike, with full equality and rights for all national and religious groups. Palestinians have advocated for this political solution ever since they rejected the 1947 UN Plan. 

The Arab educator and activist explains her reasoning, 

The reality of Israel's actions shows us that it's unrealistic to have a real sovereign state in the West Bank and Gaza with Jerusalem as the capital. The more realistic solution is one state with full national equality for both national groups.(162)

Zoabi argues that rejection of the Jewish state concept is the only way to combat right-wing Jewish leaders' demand that all Israeli citizens take loyalty oaths. She contends that it is Jewish right-wing leaders like Lieberman who should take an oath of loyalty. "He is an immigrant from Moldova. I was born here, as were my ancestors. He's the outsider, not me."

Despite facing the wrath of the Israeli parliament and state, Haneen remains firm in her Indigenous views. Rejecting the 'Jewish state' concept, the Arab parliamentarian argues, is the only idea that can remove Lieberman from the circle of political and moral legitimacy... When you agree with the 'Jewish state' idea, you necessarily agree with the idea of loyalty to this state. Rejecting the 'Jewish state' concept will block the road for anyone who demands our loyalty to such a state.(163)

The former Palestinian teacher explains the source of her activism and courage,

We didn't expect an easy struggle. I chose to be involved in politics because I was born in a racist context. I will continue using all the democratic tools that are available. I ask Israel not to push us into undesirable activities... We do not want to throw Jews into the sea. We are not against Jews. We are against Israeli policies and the definition of Israel as a Jewish state.(164)

Haneen continued,

I have a vision of our rights as indigenous people. We didn't migrate to Israel; it is Israel that migrated to us.


Chapter 22. Haneen Zoabi (Nazareth, Israel)

Livestock Triangle

Meat Society: Number 23 in a series exploring issues related to curbing demand for animal products, an important climate change solution for individuals and nations alike, especially in Western states where meat and diary consumption dwarfs other regions.

Excerpt from Meat Climate Change: The 2nd Leading Cause of Global Warming by Moses Seenarine, (2016). Xpyr Press, 348 pages ISBN: 0692641157 http://amzn.to/2yn7XrC


There is a “triangle of industrial animal agriculture” that connects the world’s biggest players in the food animal and feed industries: the US, China, and Brazil. The three nations form three points of a triangle, with the US serving as a major exporter of mature, industrialized, livestock production chains.(514)

The US is one of the world’s top cow flesh producer and the second largest pig flesh producer, comprising 18.6 percent and 9.4 percent of world production, respectively.(515) Between 2002 and 2012, the number of animals on the biggest US factory farms swelled by 20 percent. Both US livestock exports and domestic consumption are projected to grow throughout the next decade.(516)

China is a rapidly growing economy with a huge appetite for livestock products and a major market for US production. China became the world’s largest importer of soybeans, used for livestock feed, in 2000, and the top animal carcass producer in 2009.(517) The rapid expansion of intensive animal farming facilities is part of an effort to catch up with the livestock production model now standard in industrialized countries. In 2014, China produced 56.7 million metric tons of pig and 6.9 million metric tons of cow flesh, representing 51.3 percent and 11.5 percent of world production, respectively.

Despite this, with restricted natural resources domestically, especially water, to meet the demand for livestock, China is heavily importing food animal carcass and live animals from other countries as well. Together, China and Hong Kong in 2014 were the top importers of cow and pig flesh. During the first half of 2013, Hong Kong became the largest export market for Brazilian food animal carcass.(518)

Brazil is the world’s largest chicken flesh and soybean trader, the second largest cow carcass exporter, and the fourth largest pig flesh dealer. Brazil is a country with intensifying conflicts between the economic returns of spreading livestock- and feed-centered agricultural production and the need to protect some of Earth’s most ecologically critical ecosystems.

Currently, upwards of 40 percent of Brazil’s soybean harvest is crushed domestically to create soybean meal, half of which is used in the country as food animal feed. Most of the rest are exported. A large percentage of the products of intensive agriculture in Brazil, like pig carcass, chicken flesh, and food animal feed, is exported. In contrast, China only exports a small fraction of these products.

Turning farms into factories has helped the US achieve huge agricultural yields, producing at low cost and high “efficiency” with regard to time, if not energy or environmental efficiencies. As the small players drop out or merge with the big players through vertical or horizontal integration, concentration in the food animal industry is exacerbated. As with energy, transport, communications, health and other vital sectors, the food system is increasingly controlled by fewer, larger transnational food corporations (TFCs).

With broadening market strength and dominance, food integrators are able to influence policy-making and policy implementation in favor of their bottom lines. Subsidies are a key case in point. In 2012, US government subsidies for livestock, soybeans, and corn were US$ 58.7 million, $1.5 billion and $2.7 billion, respectively.(519)

The US model of integration easily found a place in Brazil and has thrived there. Although the export of this model to China has encountered some obstacles, construction of large facilities by national and international agribusinesses is mounting with government policy support.

But this triangle of industrial animal agriculture is not sustainable, and is self-destructive for humans. The externalized costs of factory farming will put progressively heavier burdens on consumers, producers, and even on those who choose not to produce or consume factory farmed products or any food animal products at all.


Chapter 14: DIET OR POPULATION? page 138

Hidden Population: Obesity

Meat Society: Number 22 in a series exploring issues related to curbing demand for animal products, an important climate change solution for individuals and nations alike, especially in Western states where meat and diary consumption dwarfs other regions.

Excerpt from Meat Climate Change: The 2nd Leading Cause of Global Warming by Moses Seenarine, (2016). Xpyr Press, 348 pages ISBN: 0692641157 http://amzn.to/2yn7XrC


Considerable scientific attention is given to calculating the number of people and rate of population growth, but much less effort is expended on estimating average human mass. This disparity exists despite evidence that average body mass is climbing at a sharp pace. Weight is measured using body mass index (BMI). The overweight have a BMI over 25, and the obese have a BMI above 30.

For the first time in human history obese people outnumber underweight people. Almost 11 percent of men and 15 percent of women worldwide are obese, while under 9 percent of men and 10 percent of women are underweight, defined by a BMI of under 18.5. Severe and morbid obesity are associated with highly elevated risks of adverse health outcomes.(509)

Due to the rapid expansion in animal domesticates population and carnism in both industrialized and industrializing countries, human body weight is becoming a serious public health concern. Moreover, excess human population mass could have the same implications for world food energy demands as an extra half a billion people living on the earth. Obese populations need more food to support their extra mass, and thereby amplify climate-altering gases discharged from food production. Overweight bodies also need more fossil fuel to transport them in cars and planes. So maintenance of a healthy weight has crucial health and environmental benefits. Globally, BMI for both men and women have climbed sharply for four decades. 

In 1975, men had a BMI of 21.7 and women had a 22.1 BMI. In 2014, those figures ware 24.2 for men and 24.4 for women. This means that the average person became 1.5 kg (3.3 pounds) heavier each decade. If present trends continue more women will be severely obese than underweight by 2025. 

According to the CDC, in 1960, the average American male weighed 166.3 pounds, which is the same as the average mass for American women in 2010 at 166.2 pounds. The average weight for women in 1960 was 140 pounds, so there was an 18.5 percent gain for females over half a century.(510)

In 2010, the average weight for men jumped to 195.5 pounds, adding almost 30 pounds, a 17.6 percent gain in 50 years. Over 35 percent of American females and males over the age of 20 are obese. An astonishing 70 percent of American adults, who are over 20 years of age, are either overweight or obese. On top of this, around 20 percent of American children between six to 19 years old are obese. 

In 2012, the US came in third, following the Pacific island nations Micronesia and Tonga, for having the highest average weight in the world. By comparison, Americans are 33 pounds heavier than the French, and 70 pounds bigger than the average Bangladeshi.(511)

In 2005, global adult human biomass was 287 million tonnes, of which 15 million tonnes came from being overweight. This extra mass is equivalent to that of 242 million people of average body mass, or five percent of global human biomass. Biomass from obesity was 3.5 million tonnes, the equivalent of 56 million people of average body mass.

North America has 6 percent of the world population but 34 percent of biomass from obesity. In contrast, Asia has 61 percent of the world population and 13 percent of biomass from obesity. One tonne of human biomass corresponds to 12 adults in North America and 17 adults in Asia. 

If all countries of the world had the same BMI distribution as the US, the added human biomass of 58 million tonnes would be equivalent to an extra 935 million people of average body mass. Further, they will have energy requirements equivalent to that of 473 million adults.

Compared with a normal population distribution of BMI, a population that is 40 percent obese requires almost 20 percent more food energy. In a population of one billion, the greenhouse gasses (GHGs) from food production and car travel due to increases in obesity is around 0.4 Giga tonnes (GT) and 1.0 GT of CO2e per year. This is equivalent to between 1 and 2 percent of the recent emissions from the total human population.(512)

A reduction of average weight by 5 kg (11 lb) could reduce transport CO2 discharges in the 34 high-income OECD countries by more than 10 million t. GHG pollution could be diminished another 4 million t through reduction of associated food waste in OECD countries. And, while the shift from cow flesh to other forms of animal flesh in industrialized and countries in transition has lead to food animal lifecycle emissions savings of 20 million t CO2e between 1990 and 2005, GHG releases due to obesity-promoting foodstuffs have increased by more than 400 million t CO2e in advanced developing countries.(513)

Overweight Americans and others in the global North are causing far more planetary heating than people with average body mass. Dietary changes are essential to reversing this dangerous trend. However, this issue is tricky to address since 'fat-shaming' can be a counter-productive strategy.


Chapter 14: DIET OR POPULATION? page 137

Press News 012021

We published several articles in the fall of 2020, including:

"Repression of Anti-Racist Organic Intellectuals and Social Movements." Critical Mass Bulletin, Newsletter of the Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association, Volume 45 (4) Special Issue Fall 2020

"Moses Seenarine - Scholar/Activist Profiles." Critical Mass Bulletin, Newsletter of the Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association, Volume 45 (4) Special Issue Fall 2020

"Is Critical Race Theory Divisive? Politics and Curriculum in the Trump Era." Teaching/Learning Matters, American Sociological Association, Section on Teaching and Learning. Volume 51, Issue 4. Fall 2020

"Deconstructing ‘Race’ and ‘Whiteness’ in Critical Animal Studies." Mobilizing Ideas, Center for the Study of Social Movements, University of Notre Dame, Oct. 30 

Over-Consumption and GHGs

Meat Society: Number 16 in a series exploring issues related to curbing demand for animal products, an important climate change solution for individuals and nations alike, especially in Western states where meat and diary consumption dwarfs other regions.

Excerpt from Meat Climate Change: The 2nd Leading Cause of Global Warming by Moses Seenarine, (2016). Xpyr Press, 348 pages ISBN: 0692641157 http://amzn.to/2yn7XrC


The stuff humans consume, like food, gadgets, toys and accessories, is responsible for up to 60 percent of global greenhouse gases (GHGs), and around 50 to 80 percent of total land, material, and water use. Between 60 to 80 percent of the impacts on the planet come from household consumption.(476)

However, human shoe sizes are not identical, and it is the same with ecological footprints. Consumerism is much higher in developed countries than in poor countries. Those with the highest rates of consumerism have up to 5.5 times the environmental impact as the world average. The US have the highest per capita emissions with 18.6 tonnes CO2e. Luxembourg had 18.5 tonnes, and Australia came in third with 17.7 tonnes. The world average, for comparison, was 3.4 tonnes, and China had just 1.8 tonnes.

Lifestyle and consumption impacts are highly unequal within and between countries. For example, the carbon footprints of citizens in G20 developing countries like Brazil and India are far lower than those of their counterparts in the rich OECD nations like Germany and the UK. On top of that, there are significant differences in the consumption effects caused by rich and poor citizens in developed countries like the USA.

Overall, the world's rich are largely responsible for causing climate chaos. Moreover, climate warming is inextricably linked to economic inequality. A natural disaster crisis driven by climate-altering gases generated by the ‘haves,’ is affecting the ‘have-nots’ the hardest. 

Fifty percent of the world’s carbon outflows are produced by the world’s richest 10 percent, while the poorest half, 3.5 billion people, are responsible for a mere 10 percent of CO2 emission. Further exaggerated, the wealthiest one (1) percent of the world’s population emit 30 times the pollution of the poorest 50 percent, and 175 times the volume of carbon of those living in the bottom 10 percent.(477) 

The average GHG footprint of a person in the poorest half of the global population is just 1.57 tCO2. This amount is 11 times less than the average footprint of someone in the richest 10 percent of the world. The average emissions of someone in the poorest 10 percent of the global population is 60 times less that of someone in the richest 10 percent of the world.

The vast majority of the world’s wealthiest 10 percent are high emitters who live in developed 37 OECD countries, although this is slowly changing. In South Africa, the richest 10 percent of citizens already have average lifestyle consumption footprints ten times higher than the poorest half of the population. In Brazil, it is eight times as high. Still, around a third of the world’s richest 10 percent are from the US.

The per capita GHG footprints from the wealthiest 10 percent of Indian citizens are one-quarter of the poorest 50 percent of those from the US. The poorest 50 percent of Indians have a carbon footprint that is one-twentieth of the poorest 50 percent in the US. And, the poorest half of Indians, around 600m people, has a total emissions footprint about the same as the richest 10 percent of citizens in Japan, around 12m people.

While the total climate-altering gases produced in China divided on a per capita basis have now surpassed those of the European Union, the per capita lifestyle consumption footprint of the wealthiest 10 percent of Chinese citizens are considerably lower than the richest of their OECD counterparts. This is because a large share of China’s emissions is from the production of goods consumed in developed countries. The poorest half of the Chinese population, over 600m people, have a total GHG footprint that is one-third that of the wealthiest 10 percent of US citizens, around 30m people.

The richest citizens in the Global North and Global South can and should cut their GHG footprints through lifestyle modifications. Still and all, they cannot solve the climate crisis alone. Effectual solutions require reduced footprints from the vast majority of citizens in the Global North, who are distinctly part of the over-consumption problem.

One author, Oppenlander, argues, “Our civilization displays a curious instinct when confronted with a problem related to overconsumption - we simply find a way to produce more of what it is we are consuming, instead of limiting or stopping that consumption.”(478) This is certainly true for food animals, due to the combined efforts of governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) like the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), and transnational corporations (TFCs).

For decades, the consumption of goods and services has risen steadily in industrial nations, by virtually any measure: (i) amount of household expenditures, (ii) number of consumers, or (iii) by extraction of raw materials. And, consumption is growing rapidly in many developing countries as well.

An emerging body of research is examining environmentally significant consumption, a broad term used to encompass consumption practices that have particularly serious environmental consequences. Stern notes that “(consumption) is not solely a social or economic activity but a human-environment transaction. Its causes are largely economic and social, at least in advanced societies, but its effects are biophysical.”(479)

Consumption is the result of social, economic, technological, political, and psychological forces. Global, private consumption expenditures - the total spent on goods and services at the household level - topped $20 trillion in 2000, a four-fold spread over 1960 (in 1995 dollars).(480)

There are in excess of 1.7 billion members of 'the consumer class' and nearly half of them are in the developing world. An over-consumption lifestyle and culture that became common in Europe, North America, Japan, and a few other pockets of the world in the 20th century, is going global in the 21st century.

Around 12 percent of the world’s population that lives in North America and Western Europe are responsible for 60 percent of private consumption spending. In comparison, the 33 percent of the global population living in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa accounts for only 3.2 percent of private consumption.

US consumers are leaders in over-consumption. With less than 5 percent of the global population, Americans use about a quarter of the world’s fossil fuel resources - 25 percent of the coal, 26 percent of the oil, and 27 percent of the world’s natural gas. On top of that, the UNEP calculated that 33 percent of the average US household's carbon footprint in 2010 was due to emissions caused abroad from the production of goods imported into the US market.

As of 2003, the US had a larger number of private cars than licensed drivers, and gas-guzzling sport utility trucks were among the best-selling vehicles. New houses in the US were 38 percent bigger in 2002 than in 1975, despite having fewer people per household on average.

China and India make up 20 percent of the global consumer class, with a combined population of 362 million. Notably, this Asian middle class is bigger than all of Western Europe. All the same, the average Chinese or Indian member consumes substantially less than the average European.

China and India’s large consumer class constitutes only 16 percent of the region’s population, whereas, in Europe the figure is 89 percent. This suggests that there is considerable room for growth in the developing world, and a vast opportunity to reduce over-consumption in Europe and the Global North.

Chapter 13: OVER-CONSUMPTION CLASS, pages 127-8


'Race' and 'Whiteness' in Academia

As I write this article at the end of August 2020, socially defined “minority” communities across the country are protesting yet another police shooting of an African American, that of 29-year old Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Earlier in the year, there were weeks of activism over the strangulation of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man in Minneapolis, Minnesota; the shooting of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African American female emergency medical technician in Louisville, Kentucky; the killing of Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old African American man in Atlanta, Georgia; the strangulation of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old African American massage therapist in Aurora, Colorado; and the death of many others at the hands of the police.

Although it is not readily apparent, discrimination against “minorities” is relevant to critical animal studies, and there are many ways in which “race” and “whiteness” intersect in the field. I saw this first-hand one summer when I attended a protest at a factory farm in Los Angeles. A deep racial division was evident at the demonstration, as most of the animal advocates outside the gates were middle-class European Americans, while the majority of workers inside the slaughterhouse were disadvantaged Latinas/os, African Americans, and Asians. Horrified by the stench of the place, I became even more aghast when the European American activists started calling workers “murderers.” And, when I queried the protesters outside if their pets were plant-based, some grew defensive, arguing that dogs and cats are natural carnivores and have to eat flesh. Ironically, cognitive dissonance allowed European American vegans to scream “murderer” at marginalized meat plant workers while continuing to support factory farms by buying animal flesh for their own pets.

Interestingly, the COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to bridge this divide between activists and workers. Since the pandemic began, tens of thousands of “minority” and immigrant meat plant employees have become infected with the virus while working on animal slaughtering and disassembly lines. Deemed as “essential workers,” over a hundred meat plant employees have died from COVID-19. As a result, marginalized workers, their families and unions are calling for the closure of meat plants, along with doctors and health advocates. Animal advocates can help by campaigning alongside factory farm workers in resisting the livestock industry. The intersection of “race,” workers in meat plants, and the pandemic, is an important one for critical animal scholars to explore. 

The are other ways in which “race” and “whiteness” intersect with critical animal studies. Educational institutions are not insulated from the effects of structural racism and the power of “whiteness” operating within the larger society. Universities and academic discourses reflect Eurocentrism and fortify structural racism, and scholars should examine how these larger social forces shape our disciplines. Despite claims of scientific objectivity and unbiased inquiry, there are several critical questions that remain largely unexplored in sociology and other disciplines.

For instance, why is there a lack of ethnic diversity in academia, generally, and more particularly, in our field? How does the lack of ethnic diversity in departments, in the academic literature, and in the use of citations, serve to reinforce Eurocentrism in our discipline? What are the consequences for a field of inquiry that is dominated by people with European heritage? Whose voices are included in the standard curriculum and knowledge base, which ones are excluded, and who decides? How do European ethnicity and cultural capital become entrenched as part of the discipline? And, how do European heritage and privilege bear upon the framing of research, the issues that are explored, the inclusion and exclusion of various voices, factors, social contexts, and so on?

There are other theoretical and material issues around “race” and “whiteness” that lack elaboration in critical animal studies. For instance, how does higher consumption of animal-based protein intersect with claims of Eurocentric supremacy and countries with majority European populations? How are over-consumption behaviors, and massive carbon footprints among a small middle-class in the Global North, subsidized by the impoverished masses in the Global South? How does the Western framing of individual “rights” for nonhuman animals conflict and contradict Indigenous notions of the “interconnectedness” of species? How are issues of representation, consent and objectification in the graphic imagery of animals and nature from the Global South, negotiated or ignored in animal studies and by nonhuman animal advocates and environmental organizations in the Global North? How do “conservation” campaigns in the Global North lead to corruption and dispossession in the Global South? And how does the promotion of ecotourism in the Global South for Westerners lead to trafficking, male violence and other problems for local women?

Although important first steps, the deconstruction of “race” and “whiteness” in our field will have limited outcomes if they are not accompanied by a decentering of Eurocentric theory and theorists, along with a centering of the work of socially defined “non-whites” — Indigenous, African American, Latina/o, Asian, and other. It is the responsibility of departments and academic fields to decenter Eurocentrism and increase ethnic diversity among scholars, scholarship, and the curriculum. Objectivity and transparency also oblige individual scholars to acknowledge ethnic privileges and to discuss how racial advantages may have influenced their career and research choices. 

It is equally important for Western scholars to examine how their theoretical framing reflects perspectives in the Global North, and how these may differ from those of “minority” scholars and theories emanating from the Global South. Addressing the social influence of “race” and “whiteness” in our personal lives and careers is an important part of the process of deconstructing and decentering “whiteness” in our own scholarship, and in transforming the discipline in which we operate. The racist violence against Jacob Blake, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, Elijah McClain, and the deaths of hundreds of “minority” meat plant workers from COVID-19, should inspire academics and their departments to do more in the cause of social justice for human and nonhuman animals alike.


Reprinted from:

Seenarine, Moses. 2020. "Intersection of 'Race' and 'Whiteness' in Academia," American Sociological Association (ASA), The Animals & Society Section Newsletter, Fall, pages 7-8.

About The Author
Dr. Moses Seenarine is the father of Jad and longterm ethical vegan. Seenarine immigrated with his family from South America to the USA in the late 1970s, and he is among the first generation to be college educated. His books include Meat Climate Change: The 2nd Leading Cause of Global Warming (2016); and Cyborgs Versus the Earth Goddess: Men’s Domestication of Women and Animals, and Female Resistance (2017). Seenarine has written dozens of articles on women, race, caste, migration, the environment, animals, and climate change. His work has been cited by the FAO, UNESCO, Human Rights Watch, Anti-Slavery International, the Institute for the Study of Labor, World Council of Churches, and many others.

social realist

the long-standing tension 

between integration 

and separation

is part of many social movements

and marginalized discourses


from radical feminists

to critical 'race' theorists

brave activists have faced reality

to counter endless positivism


with a dark social realism 

based on crystal-clear recognition 

of the solidity of the status quo

and lack of structural change


social realist 

imagining a future 

in which sexism and racism 

casteism and colonialism

patriarchy and eurocentric supremacy

not only continues

but strives and intensifies


for female and racialized activists

indigenous and dalit reformers

marginalized change-makers everywhere

the choice is clear

integration has mostly been in vain


therefore aspects of separation 

have to become part of change

from de-centering and de-coupling

to reservations and quotas

affirmative action and reparations 

until social bias is over




COVID-19 Meat Pandemic Bibliography


Categorized Listing of Online News and Reports (March to June, 2020)

CATEGORIES:
CAUSE: Environment
CAUSE: Factory Farms & Meat Plants
CAUSE: Diet
CAUSE: Future Pandemics
CAUSE: Reform
GLOBAL: Brazil
GLOBAL: China
GLOBAL: Germany
GOVERNMENT: Response
INDUSTRY: Response
POLITICS:
RESISTANCE: Lawsuits
RESISTANCE: Protests
RESISTANCE: Unions & Advocacy
SOCIAL STRUCTURE: Immigration Status
SOCIAL STRUCTURE: Racism
SPREAD: National
SPREAD: Los Angeles
WORKERS: Meat Plant
WORKERS: Produce
WORKERS: Seafood



CAUSE: Environment

Pandemics result from destruction of nature, say UN and WHO
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/17/pandemics-destruction-nature-un-who-legislation-trade-green-recovery?

Biodiversity and human health: Less biodiversity, more infectious diseases?
https://arctic-council.org/en/news/biodiversity-and-human-health-less-biodiversity-more-infectious-diseases/?

Coronavirus: Pandemics will be worse and more frequent unless we stop exploiting Earth and animals, top scientists warn
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/coronavirus-pandemic-virus-disease-wildlife-environment-farming-infectious-a9487926.html?

Halt destruction of nature or suffer even worse pandemics, say world’s top scientists
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/halt-destruction-nature-worse-pandemics-top-scientists?

It’s Big Livestock versus the Planet: whose side are we on?
https://feedbackglobal.org/its-big-livestock-versus-the-planet-whos-side-are-we-on/?

The Pandemic Is Not a Natural Disaster
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-pandemic-is-not-a-natural-disaster?



CAUSE: Factory Farms & Meat Plants

Coronavirus: world treating symptoms, not cause of pandemics, says UN
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/06/coronavirus-world-treating-symptoms-not-cause-pandemics-un-report?

How Humanity Unleashed a Flood of New Diseases
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/magazine/animal-disease-covid.html?

Industrial farming of livestock a ticking pathogen bomb, scientists say
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3087055/industrial-farming-livestock-ticking-pathogen-bomb-scientists?

The next pandemic might come from a factory farm in China or the US. Is the world prepared?
https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3086633/next-pandemic-might-come-factory-farm-china-or-us-world-prepared?

Why Experts Warn Factory Farms Could Cause Another Pandemic
https://thebeet.com/why-experts-warn-factory-farms-could-cause-another-pandemic/?

OPINION: A Zoonotic Heaven
https://m.styleweekly.com/richmond/opinion-a-zoonotic-heaven/Content?

How slaughterhouses became breeding grounds for coronavirus
https://www.ft.com/content/de2ca3f6-cd63-486a-a727-069762ca4a2a?

Cheap chicken, beef came at a cost. How American meat plants bred coronavirus hot spots.
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/05/21/coronavirus-american-chicken-beef-industry-vulnerable-despite-trump/3107636001/?

It's time to shut down industrial animal farming
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/500997-its-time-to-shut-down-industrial-animal-farming?

End to slaughterhouses would benefit workers, consumers — but it's unlikely even COVID-19 will force change
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-slaughterhouse-covid-19-1.5599837?

OPINION: Will Coronavirus Be What Finally Kills Factory Farming? | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/will-coronavirus-what-finally-kills-factory-farming-opinion-1505818?

The real scandal isn’t what China did to us. It’s what we did to ourselves.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-real-scandal-isnt-what-china-did-to-us-its-what-we-did-to-ourselves/2020/05/07/70b4e0ea-9097-11ea-9e23-6914ee410a5f_story.html?

Cheap chicken, beef came at a cost
https://www.courier-tribune.com/news/20200524/cheap-chicken-beef-came-at-cost?

The Sickness in Our Food Supply
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/06/11/covid-19-sickness-food-supply/?

Cheap chicken, beef came at a cost. How American meat plants bred coronavirus hot spots.
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/05/21/coronavirus-american-chicken-beef-industry-vulnerable-despite-trump/3107636001/?

LETTER: Keeping meat processing plants open endangers us all
https://www.fredericksburg.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/letter-keeping-meat-processing-plants-open-endangers-us-all/article_b961d98e-7463-5105-9d7b-533fea3bed9c.html?

Why meatpacking plants have become coronavirus hot spots
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/19/21259000/meat-shortage-meatpacking-plants-coronavirus?

The Human Cost of ‘Culling’ Livestock and ‘Depopulating’ Farms
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/coronavirus-pandemic-human-cost-of-culling-livestock-depopulating-farms/?

COVID-19 Isn’t the Only Sickness Spreading Through Meat Plants
https://sentientmedia.org/covid-19-isnt-the-only-sickness-spreading-through-meat-plants/?

For America’s Meatpacking Workers, the Danger Is Real
https://www.eater.com/2020/5/13/21252510/america-meatpacking-industry-coronavirus-workers-at-risk-covid-19-impact?

Coronavirus: Industrial animal farming has caused most new infectious diseases and risks more pandemics, experts warn
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/coronavirus-meat-animal-farming-pandemic-disease-wet-markets-a9505626.html?

Return of 'The Jungle': Risking Death to Maximize Profits
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/05/05/return-jungle-risking-death-maximize-profits?

Surely the link between abusing animals and the world's health is now clear
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/11/surely-the-link-between-abusing-animals-and-the-worlds-health-is-now-clear?

More giant factory farms will inevitably mean we will create more deadly pandemics
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8490351/More-giant-factory-farms-inevitably-mean-create-deadly-pandemics.html?

Revealed: why meat processing plants are the ideal incubator of the coronavirus
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/revealed-meat-processing-plants-ideal-incubator-coronavirus/? 

U.S. Meat Plants Are Deadly as Ever, With No Incentive to Change
https://www.bloombergquint.com/businessweek/how-meat-plants-were-allowed-to-become-coronavirus-hot-spots

Impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the Meat Industry and Food Safety
https://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/enewsletter/impact-of-sars-cov-2-on-the-meat-industry-and-food-safety/? 

Why U.S. meatpacking workers are vulnerable to coronavirus, and why the industry won't easily change
https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/money/2020/05/06/covid-19-meat-industry-consumer-demand-large-scale-production-worker-safety/3048935001/?

America's factory farms are just as bad as we think any wet market is. We can't point fingers.
https://scoop.upworthy.com/our-factory-farms-are-just-as-bad-as-we-think-any-wet-market-is-we-cant-point-fingers?

Cold, Crowded, Deadly: How U.S. Meat Plants Became a Virus Breeding Ground
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-05-07/coronavirus-closes-meat-plants-threatens-food-supply?

A Pork Panic Won't Save Our Bacon
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-30/reopening-pork-plants-will-only-compound-a-covid-19-meat-shortage?

NEW SHOCKING VIDEO OF WET MARKETS... Animal Rights Group Demands Shutdown
https://www.tmz.com/2020/04/27/animal-rights-nyclass-danger-wet-market-slaughter-new-york/?

‘This isn’t essential’: Dog treat factory employees plead with Tyson to shut down plant after Covid-19 death
https://myfox8.com/news/this-isnt-essential-dog-treat-factory-employees-plead-with-tyson-to-shut-down-plant-after-covid-19-death/?

As they rushed to maintain U.S. meat supply, big processors saw plants become covid-19 hot spots, worker 
WashingtonPost.com

Stopping virus a huge challenge at crowded US meat plants
https://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/stopping-virus-a-huge-challenge-at-crowded-us-meat-plants/article_00f28918-fb69-59c0-a193-aa771cd67eac.html?

Meatpacking plants at center of many North America COVID-19 outbreaks
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/24/meat-a24.html?

Severe coronavirus outbreaks stagger some meat-packing plants in Washington
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/meat-plant-work-takes-a-toll-in-southeastern-washington-where-tyson-plant-halts-work-after-90-plus-coronavirus-cases-1-worker-death/?

The meat we eat is a pandemic risk, too
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/4/22/21228158/coronavirus-pandemic-risk-factory-farming-meat?

Corrupt billionaire brothers’ meat plants are riddled with coronavirus
https://nypost.com/2020/04/18/billionaire-brothers-meat-plants-riddled-with-coronavirus/?

Coronavirus at Smithfield pork plant: The untold story of America's biggest outbreak
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52311877?

Not Just China, New York Too Has Over 80 ‘Wet Markets’ That Sell & Slaughter Live Animals
https://www.india.com/news/world/not-just-china-new-york-too-has-over-80-wet-markets-that-sell-slaughter-live-animals-3989281/?


CAUSE: Diet

Obesity and Covid-19: Junk food industry ‘shares the blame’, some experts say
https://www.health24.com/Medical/Infectious-diseases/Coronavirus/obesity-and-covid-19-junk-food-industry-shares-the-blame-some-experts-say-20200614-3?

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/food-industry-shares-the-blame-for-severity-of-covid-19-argue-experts?

What do we know about the relationship between our gut microbiota and COVID-19
https://www.gutmicrobiotaforhealth.com/what-do-we-know-about-the-relationship-between-our-gut-microbiota-and-covid-19/?

Cold air may be the culprit of massive coronavirus outbreaks in meatpacking plants across the US in a worrying sign that cases may surge this winter
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8447461/Cold-air-fuel-coronaviruss-spread-meatpacking-plants.html?

The End of Meat Is Here
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/opinion/coronavirus-meat-vegetarianism.html?

Opinion | Jonathan Safran Foer: Meat is not essential. Why are we killing for it?
WashingtonPost.com

The moral cost of America’s meat-supply obsession
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/5/1/21243300/meat-supply-coronavirus-plant-shortage-food-chain?

NYU scientists: Largest US study of COVID-19 finds obesity the single biggest 'chronic' factor in New York City's hospitalizations
https://www.zdnet.com/article/nyu-scientists-largest-u-s-study-of-covid-19-finds-obesity-the-single-biggest-factor-in-new-york-critical-cases/?



CAUSE: Future Pandemics

As COVID-19 spreads, researchers track an influenza virus nervously
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/as-covid-19-spreads-researchers-tracking-an-influenza-virus-nervously/?

Coronavirus: This is not the last pandemic
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52775386?

New strain of flu found in China has potential to become a pandemic, scientists warn
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/30/new-strain-of-flu-in-china-has-pandemic-potential-scientists-warns.html? 

Dr. Anthony Fauci says new virus in China has traits of 2009 swine flu and 1918 pandemic flu
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/30/dr-anthony-fauci-says-new-virus-in-china-has-traits-of-2009-h1n1-and-1918-pandemic-flu.html?

Environmental Destruction Brought Us COVID-19. What It Brings Next Could Be Far Worse.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/emerging-disease-environmental-destruction_n_5e9db58fc5b63c5b58723afd?



CAUSE: Reform

Solidarity Across Species | Dissent Magazine
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/solidarity-across-species?

Overthrowing the Food System’s Plantation Paradigm
https://civileats.com/2020/06/19/op-ed-overthrowing-the-food-systems-plantation-paradigm/? 

Racial Injustice: The Truth about Industrial Agriculture
https://www.foodwhistleblower.org/racial-injustice-the-truth-about-industrial-agriculture/? 

How Red Meat Became the Red Pill for the Alt-Right
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/beef-red-pill-right/?

The Jungle and the Pandemic: The Meat Industry, Coronavirus, and an Economy in Crisis
https://theintercept.com/2020/05/20/the-jungle-and-the-pandemic-the-meat-industry-coronavirus-and-an-economy-in-crisis/?

We’re Still Living and Dying in the Slaveholders’ Republic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/what-freedom-means-trump/611083/?

The Writing of “Silent Spring”: Rachel Carson and the Culture-Shifting Courage to Speak Inconvenient Truth to Power
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/01/27/rachel-carson-silent-spring-dorothy-freeman/?

Let's Rebuild the Broken Meat Industry—Without Animals
https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-lets-rebuild-the-broken-meat-industry-without-animals/?

3 Ways To Fix The Meat Industry’s Empathy Problem
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hankcardello/2020/06/18/3-ways-to-fix-the-meat-industrys-empathy-problem/? 

There's no such thing as humane meat or eggs. Stop kidding yourself
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/nov/16/theres-no-such-thing-as-humane-meat-or-eggs-stop-kidding-yourself?

As coronavirus threatens meat supply, we should embrace healthier alternatives
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/05/21/coronavirus-gives-us-chance-try-healthier-alternatives-meat-column/5227040002/?

Plant-based diets could prevent a future pandemic say doctors 
https://www.euronews.com/living/2020/06/30/uk-doctors-claim-a-plant-based-diet-could-prevent-future-pandemics

WHO Adviser on Meat Plants: If We’re at War, the Weapons We Need Are Tests and PPE, Not Pork
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/30/lawrence_gostin_covid_19?



GLOBAL: Brazil

Brazil Stalks U.S. Fatalities After Virus Cases Tops 1 Million
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-19/brazil-blows-past-1-million-infections-with-no-peak-in-sight?

Brazil issues new guidelines for meatpackers as coronavirus pandemic ravages plants
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-meat/brazil-issues-new-guidelines-for-meatpackers-as-coronavirus-pandemic-ravages-plants-idUSKBN23Q3AY? 

Outbreaks of COVID-19 in Brazil’s meat processing plants and mines
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/17/bras-j17.html? 

Brazil Government Aide Says COVID-19's Toll on Elderly Will Reduce Pension Deficit As Country's Outbreak Escalates
https://www.newsweek.com/brazil-government-aide-says-covid-19s-toll-elderly-will-reduce-pension-deficit-countrys-1506830? 

Nine meat plants in southern Brazil face COVID-19 outbreaks
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-meatpackers/nine-meat-plants-in-southern-brazil-face-covid-19-outbreaks-idUSKBN22C2J8?



GLOBAL: China

China finds heavy coronavirus traces in seafood, meat sections of Beijing food market
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-seafood/china-finds-heavy-coronavirus-traces-in-seafood-meat-sections-of-beijing-food-market-idUSKBN23P20T? 

Coronavirus: China suspends poultry imports from Tyson Foods plant after workers test positive
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3089995/coronavirus-china-suspends-poultry-imports-tyson-foods-plant?



GLOBAL: Germany

Coronavirus outbreak at a meatpacking plant exposes weakness in Germany’s covid-19 response
WashingtonPost.com

Germany: Coronavirus exposes meat workers' plight
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coronavirus-exposes-meat-workers-plight/a-53902174? 

Meat plant must be held to account for Covid-19 outbreak, says German minister
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/22/meat-plant-must-be-held-to-account-covid-19-outbreak-germany? 

Meat plant must be held to account for Covid-19 outbreak, says German minister
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/22/meat-plant-must-be-held-to-account-covid-19-outbreak-germany? 

Coronavirus: Gütersloh mayor Henning Schulz slams Tönnies meat producer after massive outbreak forces lockdown
https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-g%C3%BCtersloh-mayor-henning-schulz-slams-t%C3%B6nnies-meat-producer-after-massive-outbreak-forces-lockdown/a-53932101? 

'I am angry': Germans back in lockdown demand accountability
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/24/west-germany-district-re-enters-lockdown-after-new-covid-19-outbreak? 

Coronavirus R rate rockets in Germany after factory outbreak
https://www.theweek.co.uk/107313/coronavirus-r-rate-rockets-in-germany? 

'These clusters will continue to occur': Can Germany keep on top of new coronavirus outbreaks?
https://www.thelocal.de/20200624/these-clusters-will-continue-to-occur-can-germany-control-new-coronavirus-outbreaks? 

How did Europe avoid the Covid-19 catastrophe ravaging U.S. meatpacking plants?
https://thefern.org/2020/06/how-did-europe-manage-to-avoid-the-covid-19-catastrophe-ravaging-u-s-meatpacking-plants/



GOVERNMENT: Response

N.C. not doing enough to protect immigrant farmworkers from coronavirus, advocates say
https://www.greensboro.com/news/state/n-c-not-doing-enough-to-protect-immigrant-farmworkers-from-coronavirus-advocates-say/article_fa9c9469-dbba-598f-bad7-1be560ff6b66.html?

Trump administration uses faulty data to speed up meatpacking production
https://www.salon.com/2020/07/06/trump-administration-uses-faulty-data-to-speed-up-meatpacking-production_partner/?

‘All smoke and mirrors’: How Trump’s meatpacking order has failed to keep workers safe
https://www.aberdeennews.com/farm_forum/all-smoke-and-mirrors-how-trump-s-meatpacking-order-has-failed-to-keep-workers-safe/article_cd1cf5e4-b37d-11ea-9081-838b126f5b94.html? 

Covid-19 Is Rampant Near Meatpacking Plants, But N.C. Won't Disclose All of the Data
https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/covid-19-meatpacking-plants/? 

Revealed: Covid-19 outbreaks at meat-processing plants in US being kept quiet
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/01/revealed-covid-19-outbreaks-meat-processing-plants-north-carolina? 

COVID-19 bill gives meat packing plants millions in relief, but worker safety isn’t included
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article243835277.html? 

CDC joining efforts to address northern Utah COVID-19 spike, assist immigrants and refugees
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/6/12/21288111/coronavirus-cdc-joins-efforts-cache-county-covid-19-spike-feed-reassure-affected-immigrants-refugees?

Emails Reveal Chaos as Meatpacking Companies Fought Health Agencies Over COVID-19 Outbreaks in Their Plants
https://www.propublica.org/article/emails-reveal-chaos-as-meatpacking-companies-fought-health-agencies-over-covid-19-outbreaks-in-their-plants?

The Feds Just Indicted Meatpacking Moguls for Driving Up the Price of Your Chicken
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/06/the-feds-just-indicted-meatpacking-moguls-for-driving-up-the-price-of-your-chicken/?

Gov. Reynolds won’t ‘second guess’ Tyson’s decision to penalize workers for missing shifts due to illness, as another 694 cases of COVID-19 are reported in Iowa
https://littlevillagemag.com/gov-reynolds-wont-second-guess-tysons-decision-to-penalize-workers-for-missing-shifts-due-to-illness-as-another-694-cases-of-covid-19-are-reported-in-iowa/?

OSHA fines Kuna meat-rendering plant where employee died
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/article243269091.html?

N.C. House bill would provide $25M for meat-packing plants. Proposal would add capacity, doesn't take up worker safety.
https://www.journalnow.com/business/n-c-house-bill-would-provide-25m-for-meat-packing-plants-proposal-would-add-capacity/article_9c9e2bee-1e07-5051-9b7d-195425fefaed.html?

Letter to the editor: In Maine, across U.S., meat workers get no federal protection
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/05/24/letter-to-the-editor-in-maine-across-u-s-meat-workers-get-no-federal-protection/?

Meat plant safety counsel is largely unenforceable
https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Meat-plant-safety-counsel-is-largely-unenforceable-15287233.php?

With Trump Executive Order, Are Meat and Poultry Plants a COVID-19 Ticking Time Bomb?
https://blog.ucsusa.org/rebecca-boehm/with-trump-executive-order-are-meat-and-poultry-plants-a-covid-19-ticking-time-bomb?

Kansas altered meatpacking guidance to let possibly exposed workers stay on the job
https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article242852011.html?

‘What are you hiding?’: Health officials stop reporting growing number of coronavirus cases at Nebraska meatpacking plants
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-us-nebraska-new-cases-meatpacking-plants-official-figures-a9511966.html?

Most meat plants will be on line this week despite coronavirus, says Perdue
https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/most-meat-plants-will-be-on-line-this-week-despite-coronavirus-says-perdue?

Iowa workers who don’t return to meat plants are ineligible for benefits
https://www.msnbc.com/stephanie-ruhle/watch/iowa-workers-who-don-t-return-to-meat-plants-are-ineligible-for-benefits-82812485952?

Nebraska Governor Defends Decision To Hide COVID-19 Stats At Specific Meatpacking Plants
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rachel-maddow-pete-ricketts-nebraska-meatpacking-plants-coronavirus_n_5eb5ef86c5b69c4b317a69d1?

Trump's health secretary blames meat plant outbreaks on "home and social" lives of workers
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/05/republicans-keep-blaming-workers-for-coronavirus-outbreaks-at-meat-plants/?

Chief justice: COVID-19 spread at meatpacking plant not affecting 'regular folks'
https://www.wisn.com/article/coronavirus-chief-justice-spread-at-meatpacking-plant-not-affecting-regular-folks/32393991?

Trump bows to Big Meat: The president’s outrageous use of the Defense Production Act to shield slaughterhouses
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-trump-bows-to-big-meat-20200504-gvblme2tsnbxpn6ajvlyoljyde-story.html?

A Death Sentence for Meatpackers
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/29/death-sentence-meatpackers?

Former OSHA Officials Voice Alarm as Trump Tells Corporations They Don't Have to Record Coronavirus Cases Among Their Workers
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/12/former-osha-officials-voice-alarm-trump-tells-corporations-they-dont-have-record?

Wisconsin meat processing plants, closed after COVID-19 outbreaks, forced to re-open after Pres. Trump order
https://www.cbs58.com/news/wisconsin-meat-processing-plants-closed-after-covid-19-outbreaks-forced-to-reopen-after-trump-order?

The real reason Trump treats meatpacking workers as disposable
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/opinions/trump-treats-meatpacking-workers-as-disposable-reyes/index.html

EWG: Without Worker Protections, Trump’s Planned Order To Keep Meat Plants Open During Pandemic Could Be a Death Sentence
https://www.ewg.org/release/ewg-without-worker-protections-trump-s-planned-order-keep-meat-plants-open-during-pandemic?

Trump rapidly uses wartime power for meat, hesitates to use it for ventilators
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-rapidly-uses-wartime-power-for-meat-hesitates-to-use-it-for-ventilators-82720837584?

Trump Is Ready to Let Tyson Foods Work People to Death
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/trumps-latest-salvo-on-workers-could-be-deadly.html?

Analysis | Prisons and meat processors are hotbeds of coronavirus. One can’t close. The other won’t be allowed 
WashingtonPost.com

Trump orders meat processing plants to stay open
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/politics/defense-production-act-executive-order-food-supply/index.html?

White House Seeks To Lower Farmworker Pay To Help Agriculture Industry
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/10/832076074/white-house-seeks-to-lower-farmworker-pay-to-help-agriculture-industry?

Rule Barring Immigrants From Social Programs Risks Worsening Coronavirus Spread
https://www.wsj.com/articles/rule-barring-immigrants-from-social-programs-risks-worsening-coronavirus-spread-11585137602?



INDUSTRY: Response

Smithfield, Tysons Said Their Plants Had to Stay Open to Feed America. They Shipped Meat To China Instead.
https://vadogwood.com/2020/06/17/smithfield-tysons-said-their-plants-had-to-stay-open-to-feed-america-they-shipped-meat-to-china-instead/? 

Tyson returns to pre-COVID absentee policy
https://www.farmprogress.com/business/tyson-returns-pre-covid-absentee-policy?

Iowa JBS meatpacking employees warned of 'excessive absenteeism' as pandemic continues
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2020/06/17/covid-19-iowa-letter-warns-meatpacking-workers-excess-absences/3202317001/? 

USDA Allows Poultry Plants To Raise Line Speeds, Exacerbating Risk of Covid-19 Outbreaks and Injury
https://www.nelp.org/publication/usda-allows-poultry-plants-raise-line-speeds-exacerbating-risk-covid-19-outbreaks-injury/? 

As Company Seeks Solutions, Tyson Workers Still Crowd Into Vans at Plant With COVID-19 Cases
https://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/as-company-seeks-solutions-tyson-workers-still-crowd-into-vans-at-plant-with-covid-19-cases/2386541/?

Tyson Foods Introduces Social Distancing Monitors as New Outbreaks Occur At Its Plants
https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/06/01/tyson-foods-deals-with-an-analyst-downgrade-anothe.aspx?

As Employees Continue to Battle COVID-19 to Make Meat, Smithfield Rewards Essential Workers with Free Hot Dogs
https://vegnews.com/2020/7/as-employees-continue-to-battle-covid-19-to-make-meat-smithfield-rewards-essential-workers-with-free-hot-dogs?

A Utah meat plant is staying open even after 287 workers got coronavirus
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/6/11/21286840/meat-plant-covid-19-utah-coronavirus?

Coronavirus hit meat plants just as workers were being asked to speed up
WashingtonPost.com

Meat industry is trying to get back to normal, but workers are still getting sick
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/big-meat-processors-saw-plants-become-covid-19-hot-spots-worker-illnesses-spike/

As Meatpacking Plants Reopen, Data About Worker Illness Remains Elusive
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/business/coronavirus-meatpacking-plants-cases.html

The meat industry is trying to get back to normal. But workers are still getting sick — and shortages may get worse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/25/meat-industry-is-trying-get-back-normal-workers-are-still-getting-sick-shortages-may-get-worse/

Workers Worry Over Enforcement of Meatpacking Plant Safety Recommendations
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2020/05/22/569716.htm?

Middle and high school students to process lobster after temporary foreign worker ban
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/covid-19-seafood-processing-temporary-foreign-workers-local-hiring-1.5570176?

JBS meat plant in Michigan sends home older workers as it ramps up production
https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2020/05/jbs-meat-plant-in-michigan-sends-home-older-workers-as-it-ramps-up-production.html?

Texas meatpacking plant reverses course, will allow state to test workers
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/13/texas-jbs-meatpacking-plant-rejects-state-efforts-coronavirus-test/?

'What's the cost of a human life?': U.S. meat-plant changes signal end of the 99-cent chicken
https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/agriculture/u-s-meat-plant-changes-signal-end-of-the-99-cent-chicken?

Some blame meatpacking workers, not plants, for virus spread
https://www.klkntv.com/some-blame-meatpacking-workers-not-plants-for-virus-spread/?

At least 4,500 Tyson workers have caught COVID-19, with 18 deaths. The meat giant still doesn't offer paid sick leave, as the industry blames workers for outbreaks.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tyson-4500-covid-19-cases-as-meat-industry-blames-workers-2020-5?

Pork Chops vs. People: Battling Coronavirus in an Iowa Meat Plant
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/business/economy/coronavirus-tyson-plant-iowa.html?

JBS Kept Colorado Beef Plant Open for Weeks During Pandemic. Now 3 Workers Are Dead
https://sentientmedia.org/jbs-kept-colorado-beef-plant-open-for-weeks-during-pandemic-now-3-workers-are-dead/?

Fremont chicken plant worker dies; plants in Madison, Schuyler to close temporarily
https://www.omaha.com/news/state_and_regional/fremont-chicken-plant-worker-dies-plants-in-madison-schuyler-to-close-temporarily/article_0791f20a-f47f-5c0e-9c9a-ede2ab0fd0a2.html?

Tens of Thousands of Healthy Pigs Being Killed Daily Amid COVID-19 Meatpacking Backlog
Time.com

As slaughterhouses shut down across the country, animals are at risk of on farm mass slaughter
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/494999-as-slaughterhouses-shut-down-across-the-country-animals-are-at?

2 million chickens to be killed because there aren’t enough workers to kill them
https://www.macon.com/news/coronavirus/article242304336.html?

Smithfield Pork Plant Offered $500 Bonus for Showing Up to Work During Coronavirus Outbreak
https://www.thedailybeast.com/smithfield-pork-plant-in-sioux-falls-offered-dollar500-bonus-for-showing-up-to-work-during-coronavirus-outbreak?

Workers at US meat plants blame coronavirus outbreaks on company policies
https://nypost.com/2020/04/26/major-us-meat-plants-are-coronavirus-hotspots-report/?

Pork producers slowly bring back workers with partitions, temperature tests
https://nypost.com/2020/05/04/pork-producers-slowly-bring-back-workers-after-coronavirus-outbreak/

Fears grow for the nation's food supply as Tyson shuts its largest pork processing plant as meat packing factories become coronavirus hotspots - and workers at Smithfield say they were given hair nets to wear as face masks

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8245503/Fears-grow-food-supply-Tyson-halts-operations-processing-plants-coronavirus-hotspots.html?



POLITICS:

Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Wendy's franchisee gives $200K more to Trump reelection campaign
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/wendys-james-bodenstedt-400k-trump?

Booker renews push to phase out factory farming by 2040 after pandemic hits meatpacking plants
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/496661-booker-renews-push-to-phase-out-factory-farming-by-2040-after-pandemic-hits?

Cash Cows: Meatpacking and the specter of Coronapolitics
https://thebaffler.com/latest/cash-cows-specht?

Iowa Poll: Nearly half say meatpacking plants have adequate oversight to protect workers
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2020/06/19/iowa-poll-meat-packing-oversight-adequate-workers-tyson-covid-19/3199521001/? 

Pork packing saved Milan, Mo. Now some see plant as a threat
https://www.stltoday.com/business/local/pork-packing-saved-milan-mo-now-some-see-plant-as-a-threat/article_b63bc291-a7b5-599e-a70c-8471d50a8cef.html?



RESISTANCE: Lawsuits

Tyson Hit With Another COVID-19 Death Suit In Texas
https://www.law360.com/articles/1283346/tyson-hit-with-another-covid-19-death-suit-in-texas? 

Iowa families of 3 dead meat plant workers sue Tyson Foods
https://www.phillytrib.com/iowa-families-of-3-dead-meat-plant-workers-sue-tyson-foods/article_06cb7d3c-fa95-52a7-ba03-717119600c73.html? 

Latino group says $5 million gift to Iowa cities should go to workers who have gotten sick
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2020/06/24/latino-group-workers-coronavirus-need-money-donated-cities/3250695001/? 

Family seeks workers compensation payment from Tyson after Iowa man dies of COVID-19
https://www.thehawkeye.com/news/20200611/family-seeks-workers-compensation-payment-from-tyson-after-iowa-man-dies-of-covid-19?

Tyson Foods Was Slapped With a Federal Wrongful Death Lawsuit. It's About Time.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/05/28/tyson-foods-was-slapped-with-a-federal-wrongful-de.aspx?

McDonald’s hit with two class-action suits over COVID-19 worker safety
https://nypost.com/2020/05/19/mcdonalds-hit-with-chicago-and-california-class-action-suits-over-covid-19-safety/

Workers Are Dying at Meatpacking Plants, and Investors Need to Take Note
https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/05/13/workers-are-dying-at-meat-packing-plants-companies.aspx?



RESISTANCE: Protests

Tell Tyson: Workers deserve paid sick leave now!
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/tell-tyson-workers-deserve-paid-sick-leave-now? 

Doctors posting billboards urging Reynolds to embrace alternatives to coronavirus-plagued meatpacking industry
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2020/06/23/anti-meat-billboard-iowa-governor-mansion-terrace-hill-coronavirus-outbreak-packing-plants/3245219001/? 

Car vigil held in South Omaha for packing plant safety awareness
https://www.3newsnow.com/news/local-news/car-vigil-held-in-south-omaha-for-packing-plant-safety-awareness? 

Multiple organizations joined Solidarity with Meatpacking Plant Workers for drive-in vigil
https://nebraska.tv/news/local/multiple-organizations-joined-solidarity-with-meatpacking-plant-workers-for-drive-in-vigil? 

Animal advocates protest JBS, call on plant to protect workers, switch to meat alternatives
https://www.hjnews.com/news/local/animal-advocates-protest-jbs-call-on-plant-to-protect-workers-switch-to-meat-alternatives/article_b46b6041-36f3-506a-a7a4-62c046f73dfc.html? 

Meatpacking workers oppose forced return to work through protests and mass absenteeism
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/16/meat-j16.html

Meatpacking workers often absent after order to reopen
https://nypost.com/2020/06/15/meatpacking-workers-often-absent-after-trump-order-to-reopen/

Workers protest against Utah meatpacking plant amid outbreak — ‘It’s not safe,’ says one
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/06/09/meatpacking-workers/?

She's Advocating For Her Meat Plant Worker Parents
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/06/871536123/shes-advocating-for-her-meat-plant-worker-parents?

Protesters hold vigil outside Perdue Farms in Perry, questioning conditions inside
https://41nbc.com/2020/06/04/rural-americas-workforce-feeling-impact-coronavirus-protesters-fight-slaughterhouse-workers/?

Group protests outside Morganton chicken plant amid COVID-19 outbreak
https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/group-protests-outside-morganton-chicken-plant-amid-covid-19-outbreak/BTY34JGC3NEFRBUYFGCNDSHV7I/?

Coronavirus cases at Arkansas meat plants rise, draw protests
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/may/30/coronavirus-cases-at-meat-plants-rise-d/?

Activists protest outside Cargill Meat Solutions, call for closure of meatpacking plants in Wisconsin
https://www.cbs58.com/news/activists-protest-outside-cargill-meat-solutions-call-for-closure-of-meatpacking-plants-in-wisconsin?

Hispanic leaders call on Ricketts to support meatpackers, sterilize plants
https://www.theindependent.com/news/local/hispanic-leaders-call-on-ricketts-to-support-meat-packers-sterilize-plants/article_509e47e8-9ba9-11ea-aaf2-0f82f321eb82.html?

Tyson roadside vigil honors 3 Tri-Cities workers who died of COVID-19
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article242763281.html?

Demonstrators gather outside Smithfield Foods, urging meat processing companies to shut down
https://www.wtkr.com/news/demonstrators-to-gather-outside-smithfield-foods-urging-meat-processing-companies-to-shut-down?

Protesters take a second stand at the Smithfield Foods meat factory
https://www.klkntv.com/protesters-take-a-second-stand-at-the-smithfield-foods-meat-factory/?

Meatless May? Latino civil rights group launches meat boycott as coronavirus hits plant workers
https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/health/meatless-may-latino-civil-rights-group-lulac-launches-meat-boycott-as-coronavirus-hits-plant-workers-20200501?

Uproar Among Workers Supplying the World’s Meat Is Spreading
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/under-siege-from-virus-meat-workers-want-more-safety-measures?

How a Somali community took on a Minnesota meatpacking plant to contain a Covid-19 outbreak
https://qz.com/africa/1871345/somalis-took-on-a-minnesota-meatpacking-plant-to-stop-covid-19/? 

Somali chicken plant workers take on Pilgrim’s Pride, and win
https://thecounter.org/meatpacking-covid-19-somali-chicken-pilgrims-pride-strike/? 



RESISTANCE: Unions and Advocacy

What is it like to work for Tyson Foods during COVID-19?
https://www.workingattyson.com/?

Poor conditions in meat plants fuel Covid-19 outbreaks, say unions
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/22/poor-conditions-in-meat-plants-fuel-covid-19-outbreaks-say-unions? 

Union Unveils Billboards In Memory Of 6 JBS Workers Who Died From COVID-19
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/06/19/greeley-billboards-jbs-workers-coronavirus-union/? 

99 Slaughterhouse Worker COVID-19 Deaths Provoke Coalition To Urge #boycottmeat
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/99-slaughterhouse-worker-covid-19-deaths-provoke-coalition-to-urge-boycottmeat-301083435.html?

LULAC Iowa Wed am news conference: new #BOYCOTTMEAT coalition to protect slaughterhouse workers.
https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/520164296/lulac-iowa-wed-am-news-conference-new-boycottmeat-coalition-to-protect-slaughterhouse-workers? 

18 groups petition Gov. Cooper for more COVID-19 data transparency, especially from meat-packing plants
http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2020/06/17/18-groups-petition-gov-cooper-for-more-covid-19-data-transparency-especially-from-meat-packing-plants/? 

Meting out misery - coronavirus outbreaks and the meat industry
https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/50285/Meting+out+misery+++coronavirus+outbreaks+and+the+meat+industry? 

More should be done to protect meat packing workers
https://siouxcityjournal.com/opinion/columnists/the-regulars-more-should-be-done-to-protect-meat-packing-workers/article_549729ce-4c81-561d-9bbd-8eb696da1df7.html? 

'A serious mistake': Union president criticizes Tyson Foods over attendance policy
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2020/06/04/a-serous-mistake-ufcw-president-criticizes-tyson-foods/3144004001/?

Labor leader: 'Ham sandwich' not worth the lives of meat workers
https://www.msnbc.com/hallie-jackson/watch/labor-leader-ham-sandwich-not-worth-the-lives-of-meat-workers-83964485935?

At least 44 meatpacking workers have died from coronavirus, union says
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/at-least-44-meatpacking-workers-have-died-from-coronavirus-union-says-2020-05-28?

Meatpacking union: 44 COVID-19 deaths among workers
https://hayspost.com/posts/5ed0319febfb13423b26653c?

US union demands closure of LA meat processing plant
https://thepigsite.com/news/2020/05/us-union-demands-closure-of-la-meat-processing-plant?

Letters to the Editor: Meat processing plants mistreated their workers long before the coronavirus started
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-04/meat-processing-plants-mistreated-their-workers-long-before-the-coronavirus?

America’s Slaughterhouses Aren’t Just Killing Animals
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/essentials-meatpeacking-coronavirus/611437/?

N.C. not doing enough to protect immigrant farmworkers from coronavirus, advocates say
https://www.greensboro.com/news/state/n-c-not-doing-enough-to-protect-immigrant-farmworkers-from-coronavirus-advocates-say/article_fa9c9469-dbba-598f-bad7-1be560ff6b66.html?

Washington Farmworkers Become Covid-19 Guinea Pigs
https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2020/05/washington-farmworkers-become-covid-19.html?

Meats vs. worker safety — it's a false dichotomy
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/498735-meats-versus-worker-safety-its-a-false-dichotomy

The Coronavirus Wouldn’t Be Decimating Meatpacking Plants If Company Bosses Hadn’t Busted the Unions
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/05/iowa-upwa-meat-processing-unons-packinghouse-coronavirus?

What Would Justice For Packing Plant Workers Look Like?
https://iowastartingline.com/2020/05/19/what-would-justice-for-packing-plant-workers-look-like/?

Risking workers lives for meat on the table
https://www.660citynews.com/2020/05/15/risking-workers-lives-for-meat-on-the-table/?

Coronavirus Spreading in Meat Plants Puts Workers’ Lives at Risk
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/coronavirus-meat-industry?

Advocates slam Trump order to keep meatpacking plants open
https://thefern.org/ag_insider/advocates-slam-trump-order-to-keep-meatpacking-plants-open/?

It’s Workers Who Should Determine When Their Workplace Is Safe
https://prospect.org/labor/its-workers-who-should-determine-when-their-workplace-is-safe/?

U.S. Workplace Safety Rules Missing In The Pandemic
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/01/849212026/it-s-the-wild-west-u-s-workplace-safety-rules-missing-in-the-pandemic?

The Essential Workers America Treats as Disposable
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/04/27/the-essential-workers-america-treats-as-disposable/?

800 Workers at a Pork Plant Get Covid-19: The Company Is Responsible
https://www.leftvoice.org/800-workers-at-a-pork-plant-get-covid-19-the-company-is-responsible?



SOCIAL STRUCTURE: Immigration Status

Undocumented workers are essential. Let’s treat them like it.
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/15/guest-post-undocumented-workers-essential-daca/? 

Florida gov blames coronavirus rise on ‘overwhelmingly Hispanic’ workers
https://nypost.com/2020/06/19/desantis-blames-covid-spike-on-overwhelmingly-hispanic-laborers/? 

'Employees are not to blame' for coronavirus outbreaks
https://www.dw.com/en/employees-are-not-to-blame-for-coronavirus-outbreaks/a-53877321? 

Brown County's Latino community 'terrorized' by coronavirus, and the numbers show why
https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2020/06/30/coronavirus-brown-county-hispanics-hit-hard-virus-outbreaks/5266090002/? 

Tyson Foods worker dies as virus cripples Buena Vista county
https://kwwl.com/2020/06/10/tyson-foods-worker-dies-as-virus-cripples-buena-vista-county/?

Who Had To Die For Your Dinner?
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/albertsamaha/july-4th-barbecue-food-coronavirus?

Worker shortage concerns loom in immigrant-heavy meatpacking
https://apnews.com/db42b45724befc83b2371450f149c711?

Latinos Make up Nearly 50% of COVID-19 Deaths in CA; New ‘Safer at Home’ Order Is Not Enough to Change That
https://remezcla.com/culture/coronavirus-california-safer-at-home-order-essential-workers/

Latino workers face discrimination over spread of coronavirus in meat plants
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/25/latino-workers-coronavirus-discrimination-meat-plants?

Fake IDs, Covid-19 deaths: Dallas meat plant tells tale of U.S. immigration breakdown
https://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/editorials/article243291001.html?

'The disease is ripping through': why coronavirus is devastating California's Pacific Islanders
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/22/pacific-islanders-california-coronavirus-death-rate?

Filipinos in Canada meat plant being scapegoated for Covid spread
https://usa.inquirer.net/55211/filipinos-in-canada-meat-plant-being-scapegoated-for-covid-spread?

The price of being 'essential': Latino service workers bear brunt of coronavirus
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-17/latino-essential-workers-coronavirus?

Families of essential workers killed by COVID-19 face loss of health care
https://www.salon.com/2020/05/17/families-of-essential-workers-killed-by-covid-19-face-loss-of-health-care/?

The pandemic is just the latest threat faced by refugee food workers in Texas
https://thefern.org/2020/06/the-pandemic-is-just-the-latest-threat-faced-by-refugee-food-workers-in-texas/

Opinion: In About-Face, Trump Finds Immigrant Meat Packing Workers Essential
https://timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2020/05/16/in-about-face-trump-finds-immigrant-meat-packing-workers-essential/?

Coronavirus Case Rates and Death Rates for Latinos in the United States
https://salud-america.org/coronavirus-case-rates-and-death-rates-for-latinos-in-the-united-states/?

For Latinos and Covid-19, Doctors Are Seeing an ‘Alarming’ Disparity
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/coronavirus-latinos-disparity.html?

'Essential workers': Just another piece of meat in the food supply chain | POCHO
https://www.pocho.com/essential-workers-are-another-piece-of-meat-in-the-food-supply-chain/?

Coronavirus cases skyrocketing in Chicago’s Latino community
https://wgntv.com/news/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases-skyrocketing-in-chicagos-latino-community/?

Latinos' coronavirus deaths at meat processing plant raise alarms about worker safety
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latinos-coronavirus-deaths-meat-processing-plant-raise-alarms-about-worker-n1183916?

Iowa Immigrants Face Nightmare At Meat Packing Plants
https://iowastartingline.com/2020/04/21/iowa-immigrants-face-nightmare-at-meat-packing-plants1/?

'We all stay home': no work and no stimulus checks for undocumented family in U.S.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-california-family/we-all-stay-home-no-work-and-no-stimulus-checks-for-undocumented-family-in-u-s-idUSKBN21Y3AT?

Want to See an American Hero? Go to Your Bodega.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/want-to-see-an-american-hero-go-to-your-bodega?

The Irony of Being Essential, But Illegal
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/04/07/the-irony-of-being-essential-but-illegal/?

Migrant farmworkers feed America, and they’re at high risk for a coronavirus outbreak
https://thefern.org/2020/03/migrant-farmworkers-feed-america-and-theyre-at-high-risk-for-a-coronavirus-outbreak/?

Are Latinos More Exposed to Coronavirus? Left Out of Testing, Treatment, Social Distancing?
https://salud-america.org/latinos-more-exposed-to-coronavirus-left-out-of-testing-treatment/?

Farmworkers, Mostly Undocumented, Become ‘Essential’ During Pandemic
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-undocumented-immigrant-farmworkers-agriculture.html?

These Migrant Workers Did Not Suddenly Fall From the Sky
https://mailchi.mp/thetricontinental.org/these-migrant-workers-did-not-suddenly-fall-from-the-sky-the-fourteenth-newsletter-2020?

Reports: Latino Workers Are Hit Hardest by COVID-19 Pandemic
https://salud-america.org/latino-workers-are-hit-hardest-by-covid-19-pandemic/?

'I have a broken heart': Trump policy has immigrants backing away from healthcare amid crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/29/i-have-a-broken-heart-trump-policy-has-immigrants-backing-away-from-healthcare-amid-crisis?

Immigrants, People Of Color At Risk From Coronavirus, Experts Say
https://patch.com/california/sanmateo/immigrants-people-color-risk-coronavirus-experts-say?

Undocumented in US have few protections from virus fallout
https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/undocumented-protections-virus-fallout-200325165902316.html?



SOCIAL STRUCTURE: Racism

Housekeepers the 'hidden heroes' keeping patients, doctors safe during COVID-19 pandemic
https://www.wltx.com/article/news/hidden-heroes-of-covid-19/93-828b7451-67ef-4b5f-83af-ca571ce8561b?

Coronavirus Surge In Montgomery, Alabama Reveals Health Inequalities | NBC Nightly News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxUvXM_ZIx0

Why Racism, Not Race, Is a Risk Factor for Dying of COVID-19
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-racism-not-race-is-a-risk-factor-for-dying-of-covid-191/?

55% Of U.S. Coronavirus Cases In CDC Analysis Are Black And Hispanic
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/06/15/55-of-us-coronavirus-cases-in-cdc-analysis-are-black-and-hispanic/? 

Missing data veils coronavirus damage to minority communities
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/14/missing-data-veils-coronavirus-damage-to-minority-communities-316198?

Florida migrant towns become coronavirus hot spots in the United States
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-ne-ap-immokalee-coronavirus-hotspots-20200614-t4xnz5mkdzbxljgxu3c6pqhb3m-story.html?

'An alley without exit.' Experts worry COVID-19 among Latinos will get dire without support
https://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/an-alley-without-exit-experts-worry-covid-19-among-latinos-will-get-dire-without-support/article_f9e99a3d-395d-5516-9ee9-33e68ce9fd50.html? 

California Latino, Black residents hit even harder by coronavirus as white people see less danger
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-27/california-latinos-black-people-hit-even-harder-by-coronavirus? 

This Texas Town Is America’s COVID-19 Future
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/amarillo-texas-could-be-americas-covid-19-future?

Latinos’ risk of getting COVID doubles in states with meat processing plant outbreaks
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/coronavirus/article243393241.html?

The COVID-19 Response Is Fueled by Racial Hostility (OPINION)
https://www.latinorebels.com/2020/05/04/covidracialhostility/?

A bioethicist on why reopening states will kill more black people
https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/5/1/21242911/black-americans-coronavirus-opening-states?

When Blackness Is a Preexisting Condition
https://newrepublic.com/article/157537/blackness-preexisting-condition-coronavirus-katrina-disaster-relief?

Whose life matters more? A human or a hog?
https://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/staff-columnist/whose-life-matters-more-a-human-or-a-hog-20200421?

Coronavirus Case Rates and Death Rates for Latinos in the United States
https://salud-america.org/coronavirus-case-rates-and-death-rates-for-latinos-in-the-united-states/?

Smithfield Foods Is Blaming “Living Circumstances In Certain Cultures” For One Of America’s Largest COVID-19 Clusters
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/albertsamaha/smithfield-foods-coronavirus-outbreak?

COVID-19 may not discriminate based on race — but U.S. health care does
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/covid-19-may-not-discriminate-based-on-race-but-u-s-health-care-does?



SPREAD: National

Covid-19 Is Rampant Near Meatpacking Plants, But N.C. Won't Disclose All of the Data
https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/covid-19-meatpacking-plants/?

Meat processing plants spread the coronavirus in North Carolina
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/03/ncar-j03.html?

Workers at SC meat plants infected with COVID 19. Many cases are in the Midlands
https://www.thestate.com/news/coronavirus/article243904777.html?

Mapping Covid-19 in meat and food processing plants | Food and Environment Reporting Network
https://thefern.org/2020/04/mapping-covid-19-in-meat-and-food-processing-plants/?

Meat Plants Become Hotspots for Covid-19 Across the World
https://www.grainmart.in/news/meat-plants-become-hotspots-for-covid-19-across-the-world/? 

Virus Hotspots Grow in Meat Plants From Germany to Brazil
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-13/virus-hotspots-multiply-in-meat-plants-from-germany-to-brazil

At Tyson, 13% of workers infected
https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2020/jun/20/at-tyson-13-of-workers-infected/? 

Meat processing plants spread the coronavirus in North Carolina
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/03/ncar-j03.html?

Workers at SC meat plants infected with COVID 19. Many cases are in the Midlands
https://www.thestate.com/news/coronavirus/article243904777.html? 

Where COVID-19 is spreading fastest as U.S. cases rise 46% in past week
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-trends-graphic/where-covid-19-is-spreading-fastest-as-u-s-cases-rise-46-in-past-week-idUSKBN2411P4? 

COVID-19 has killed 93 meat plant workers across the US
WashingtonPost.com

COVID outbreaks at meatpacking plants keep growing. ZIP code data shows their spread.
https://www.thecattlesite.com/news/55513/covid19-has-killed-93-meat-plant-workers-across-the-us/? 

Risk up on Arkansas poultry lines
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/jun/13/risk-up-on-poultry-lines/?

Coronavirus has killed 5 poultry plant workers and infected more than 200 other employees on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-chicken-plant-cases-20200611-ck65omlurrd63anpoqiibitblm-story.html?

Utah's Spike In Coronavirus Cases Tied Mostly To Meat Plant In Hyrum
https://www.kuer.org/post/utahs-spike-coronavirus-cases-tied-mostly-meat-plant-hyrum?

Outbreaks at 60 US food plants raise specter of more shortages
https://norwalkreflector.com/news/261286/outbreaks-at-60-us-food-plants-raise-specter-of-more-shortages/?

Long Prairie beef processor among latest swept by COVID-19, despite significant prevention
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/06/10/long-prairie-beef-processor-among-latest-swept-by-covid19-despite-significant-prevention?

COVID- 19 Outbreaks in NC: Symptoms of a Sick System
https://www.foodwhistleblower.org/covid-19-outbreaks-in-nc-symptoms-of-a-sick-system/?

786 workers at Tyson's Dakota City plant have coronavirus; company says worst is over
https://www.kearneyhub.com/news/state/786-workers-at-tysons-dakota-city-plant-have-coronavirus-company-says-worst-is-over/article_dd961854-acaa-568f-af07-9d9288c0755c.html?

Columnist Claire Morenon: Coronavirus exposes bleak truths about the national meat industry
https://www.gazettenet.com/Columnist-Claire-Morenon-34526524?

Meatpacking workers risk returning to hot spots
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-agriculture/2020/06/01/meatpacking-workers-risk-returning-to-hot-spots-788067?

‘Is pork essential?’ In a Smithfield town, a coronavirus-stricken meat factory comes back to life
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-05-29/coronavirus-pork-smithfield-south-dakota?

Meatpacker took precautions. Workers still got sick.
https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2020/05/29/long-prairie-packing-covid-19-outbreak.html?

Iowa Health Official Says 555 Workers at Tyson Meat Plant Test Positive for COVID-19
https://www.theepochtimes.com/iowa-health-official-says-555-workers-at-tyson-meat-plant-test-positive-for-covid-19_3368250.html?

Cases of meat plant workers with coronavirus soars from 3,700 to more than 15,000 in a month - as experts warn meat supply could drop by a THIRD and prices could spike by 20%
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8357717/Cases-meat-plant-workers-coronavirus-triples-3-700-15-000-month.html?

Nearly 600 employees at North Carolina chicken processing plant test positive for coronavirus
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-tyson-chicken-processing-plant-test-positive-20200521-4tprlqcq2vfv3etqbe5nnsc5mu-story.html?

Grocery Workers Union Estimates 3,257 Members Infected With Coronavirus
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/22/859624421/grocery-workers-union-estimates-3-257-members-infected-with-coronavirus?

Regulatory gaps, missed opportunities allowed COVID-19 to spread in meatpacking plants
https://www.aberdeennews.com/covid19/regulatory-gaps-missed-opportunities-allowed-covid-19-to-spread-in-meatpacking-plants/article_24803d08-93e1-11ea-9394-b764e07acda7.html?

Meat plants still coronavirus hotspots after Tyson reveals quarter of NC plant tested positive
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/tyson-meat-plant-north-carolina-coronavirus?

Almost 12,000 meatpacking and food plant workers have reportedly contracted COVID-19. At least 48 have died.
https://www.businessinsider.com/meatpacking-plants-12000-coronavirus-cases-48-deaths-2020-5?

Virus infects 18% of workers at beef plant in Washington
https://www.capitalpress.com/ag_sectors/livestock/virus-infects-18-of-workers-at-beef-plant-in-washington/article_58a3dac4-96fa-11ea-898c-a3f0b666176d.html?

More than 120 workers test positive for Covid-19 at Cork meat plant
https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/More-than-120-workers-test-positive-for-Covid-19-at-Cork-meat-plant-40ef1c12-b321-49bf-92a8-d7fc32160d31-ds?

3 workers killed, 277 infected in coronavirus outbreak at E. Wash. beef plant
https://ktul.com/news/nation-world/3-workers-killed-277-infected-in-coronavirus-outbreak-at-e-wash-beef-plant?

US coronavirus hotspots linked to meat processing plants
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/us-coronavirus-meat-packing-plants-food?

Thirty Workers, Four USDA Inspectors Dead Amid Meat Plant Coronavirus Outbreaks
https://time.com/5836973/usda-inspector-meat-workers-dead-coronavirus/?

CDC: Nearly 5,000 Meat Processing Workers Infected With COVID-19
https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-05-01/cdc-nearly-5-000-meat-plant-workers-infected-by-coronavirus?

Second Wisconsin meatpacking worker dies of COVID-19; infections at food plants exceed 800
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/05/08/second-wisconsin-meatpacking-worker-dies-of-coronavirus-800-infected/3095122001/?

COVID Case Count At Reopened Tyson Meat Plant Doubles To More Than 1,000
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/covid-case-count-at-reopened-tyson-meat-plant-doubles-to-more-than-1000?

Meat plant workers make up 1/6 of COVID-19 cases in Nebraska
https://fox42kptm.com/news/local/omaha-meat-cases?

Pa. has more coronavirus cases among meat plant workers than any other state, CDC says
https://www.inquirer.com/business/retail/cdc-20200501.html?

58 percent of workers at Tyson meat factory in Iowa test positive for coronavirus
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/58-percent-workers-tyson-meat-factory-iowa-test-positive-coronavirus-n1200641?

As meat plants reopen, Iowa, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska are coronavirus leaders
https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/as-meat-plants-reopen-iowa-south-dakota-pennsylvania-and-nebraska-are-coronavirus?

Colorado Leads Nation For Most COVID-19 Deaths Connected To Meat Processing Plants, Sixth Greeley JBS Employee Dies
https://www.cpr.org/2020/05/01/colorado-leads-nation-for-most-covid-19-deaths-connected-to-meat-processing-plants-sixth-greeley-jbs-employee-dies/?

Testing at Tyson plant near Tri-Cities finds nearly 1 in 8 with coronavirus. 2 have died
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/coronavirus/article242465531.html?

CDC: Nearly 5,000 Meat Processing Workers Infected With COVID-19
https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-05-01/cdc-nearly-5-000-meat-plant-workers-infected-by-coronavirus?

Nearly 900 workers at Tyson meat plant in Indiana test positive for coronavirus
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/495564-nearly-900-workers-at-tyson-meat-plant-in-indiana-test-positive-for-coronavirus?

Hundreds of poultry workers fall ill to coronavirus as consumer demand spikes
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poultry-workers-sick-coronavirus-food-supply-meat-demand-spikes/

U.S. meat industry seen as source of most new COVID-19 hotspots
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-meat-industry-a-top-source-of-new-covid-19-hotspots/

13 U.S. meat industry workers have died of COVID-19, union says
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-meat-industry-workers-died-covid-19/?

'Catastrophic Harm' Feared as Trump Uses Emergency Powers to Keep Meat-Packing Plants Open
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/28/catastrophic-harm-feared-trump-uses-emergency-powers-keep-meat-packing-plants-open?

One Hundred U.S. Government Meat Inspectors Have Contracted Covid-19
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-23/one-hundred-usda-inspectors-have-tested-positive-for-covid-19?

Workers at Hanford meat packing plant infected with coronavirus
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/coronavirus/article242305656.html?

As they rushed to maintain U.S. meat supply, big processors saw plants become covid-19 hot spots, worker 
WashingtonPost.com

Coronavirus at meatpacking plants worse than first thought, USA TODAY investigation finds
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/04/22/meat-packing-plants-covid-may-force-choice-worker-health-food/2995232001/?

Poultry Worker’s Death Highlights Spread of Coronavirus in Meat Plants
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/us/coronavirus-chicken-meat-processing-plants-immigrants.html?

Hundreds of U.S. Meat Workers Have Now Tested Positive for Virus
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-10/worsening-outbreak-at-colorado-meat-plant-impacts-as-many-as-300?



SPREAD: Los Angeles

As COVID-19 surges, LA County hospitals running low on hospital beds, ICU space
https://abc7.com/coronavirus-covid-19-la-county-surge-dr-barbara-ferrer/6300610/?

California Disputes Record Coronavirus Case Count
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-07-06/california-records-highest-daily-coronavirus-case-count-of-any-state?

Some Meat Plant Workers Who Make Dodger Dogs Are Spreading COVID-19 to Their Families
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/some-meat-plant-workers-who-make-dodger-dogs-are-spreading-covid-19-to-their-families/2368919/?

Dodger Dog Meat Packing Facility Experiences Outbreak of COVID-19
https://www.dodgersnation.com/dodger-dog-meat-packing-facility-experiences-outbreak-of-covid-19/2020/05/23/?

Outbreak of COVID-19 cases reported at Farmer John meat processing facility in Vernon
https://abc7.com/6207742/?

Vernon has about as many coronavirus cases as residents. That worries its neighbors
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-14/vernon-coronavirus-cases-residents-farmer-john?

Why are coronavirus cases in East LA surging?
https://www.theeastsiderla.com/neighborhoods/east_los_angeles/why-are-coronavirus-cases-in-east-la-surging/article_ef3d48ca-b663-11ea-b9ea-b3e956bd1447.html? 

Racism and inequity fuel coronavirus-related death toll among L.A. County minorities, officials say
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-09/coronavirus-deaths-racism-blacks-latinos-pacific-islanders-inequity?

Southern California Supermarkets Rocked by COVID-19 Outbreaks
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/southern-california-supermarkets-rocked-by-covid-19-outbreaks/2355054/?

As Many Angelenos Stayed Home, LA County Saw A Spike In Coronavirus Among Latinos. Here's Why
https://laist.com/2020/06/09/los-angeles-county-coronavirus-latinos-esential-workers-spike-analysis.php?

Mis Ángeles: Existential Dread For DACA Recipients Working On The Pandemic's Frontlines
https://laist.com/2020/05/15/los-angeles-coronavirus-daca-grocery-worker.php?

The undocumented restaurant workers who fed us are being forgotten. This is their struggle
https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2020-05-15/undocumented-restaurant-workers-coronavirus?



WORKERS: Meat Plant

Who Had To Die For Your Dinner?
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/albertsamaha/july-4th-barbecue-food-coronavirus?

After covid-19, a poultry worker fears a return to work
https://www.chron.com/news/article/After-covid-19-a-poultry-worker-fears-a-return-15388425.php?

A Salvadoran immigrant worked at a Fort Morgan slaughterhouse for 24 years. Coronavirus killed him in 10 days.
https://coloradosun.com/2020/06/18/juan-marin-cargill-meatpacking-coronavirus-death/

Germany: Former abattoir worker 'heard colleagues crying at night
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-former-abattoir-worker-heard-colleagues-crying-at-night/a-53943595? 

Why these meatpacking workers fear for their health and safety amid COVID-19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw1uYdRnkU4

Pride turns to fear for Latino workers pressured to produce chicken at Bell & Evans
https://www.inquirer.com/business/health/a/coronavirus-bell-evans-chicken-plant-latino-workers-pa-20200615.html?

Opinion | We’re Feeding America, but We’re Sacrificing Ourselves
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/opinion/coronavirus-tyson-poultry.html?

‘That virus took my family away’: SoCal couple dies from COVID-19 one day apart, leaving behind 5 young children
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/that-virus-took-my-family-away-downey-couple-dies-one-day-apart-from-covid-19-leaving-behind-5-young-children/?

Worried about meat availability? Workers are worried about their lives
https://www.columbiamissourian.com/opinion/guest_commentaries/guest-commentary-worried-about-meat-availability-workers-are-worried-about-their-lives/article_531efccc-a4ed-11ea-b33a-6b5dc1577c91.html?

As meatpacking plants reopen, workers terrified of coronavirus risk
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/02/meatpacking-plants-reopen-coronavirus-294382?

Iowa workers are paying a high price for our meat. Our top politicians don't care
https://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/staff-columnist/iowa-workers-are-paying-a-high-price-for-our-meat-our-top-politicians-dont-care-20200531?

Undocumented Dallas plant workers say they rented fake IDs from temp agency. Then 2 died
https://www.star-telegram.com/article242932471.html

As COVID races through Mountaire Farms poultry plant, workers deemed vital feel dispensable
https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2020/05/28/as-covid-races-through-mountaire-farms-poultry-plant-workers-deemed-vital-feel-dispensable/?

Iowa meat plant worker dies after search to reunite him with his family
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-iowa-meat-worker-death-facebook-family-a9534496.html?

North Carolina hair salon declines to serve meat plant workers over coronavirus fears
https://thehill.com/regulation/labor/499454-north-carolina-hair-salon-declines-to-serve-meat-plant-workers-over?

Tyson meat plant employee dies of Covid-19 weeks after major outbreak
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/business/tyson-waterloo-plant-death/index.html?

JBS Meat Plant Clinic Told Eighth COVID-19 Victim She Had a ‘Normal Cold,’ Daughter Says
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jbs-meat-plant-clinic-told-eighth-covid-19-victim-she-had-a-normal-cold-daughter-says?

Special Report: In Oklahoma pork-packing town, COVID stirs fear, faith and sorrow
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-meat-plant-special/special-report-in-oklahoma-pork-packing-town-covid-stirs-fear-faith-and-sorrow-idUSKBN22Z0SK?

‘They could have done more’: Daughter of Marshalltown meatpacking plant worker blames JBS for his COVID-19 death
https://www.thehawkeye.com/news/20200521/they-could-have-done-more-daughter-of-marshalltown-meatpacking-plant-worker-blames-jbs-for-his-covid-19-death?

Scared and Sick, U.S. Meat Workers Crowd in Reopened Plants
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-21/scared-and-sick-u-s-meat-workers-crowd-into-reopened-plants

‘Like walking into a death trap:’ St. Joseph meat plant workers fear catching COVID-19
https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article242763271.html?

A week away from retirement, Marshalltown meatpacking worker dies from coronavirus
https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/meatpacking-worker-passes-away-a-week-before-retirement/524-486a80bc-c61e-4a37-851f-9ba64caf60ed?

Remembering Juan: Niece of Dakota City, NE Tyson worker speaks out after his death due to COVID-19
https://ktiv.com/2020/05/06/remembering-juan-niece-of-dakota-city-ne-tyson-worker-speaks-out-after-his-death/?

Eighth JBS Greeley worker dies amid coronavirus outbreak at meat plant
https://www.timescall.com/2020/05/18/jbs-greeley-coronavirus-covid-death/?

What the Arkansas meat plant workers I met want you to know
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/19/opinions/keep-meat-plant-and-farm-workers-safe-from-covid-19-driver/index.html?

Refugee Advocate: Workers Not Sure Who To Trust In Pandemic
https://iowastartingline.com/2020/05/17/refugee-advocate-workers-not-sure-who-to-trust-in-pandemic/?

“When We’re Dead and Buried, Our Bones Will Keep Hurting”
https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/09/04/when-were-dead-and-buried-our-bones-will-keep-hurting/workers-rights-under-threat?

‘Like walking into a death trap:’ St. Joseph meat plant workers fear catching COVID-19
https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article242763271.html?

'Everyone's on top of you, sneezing and coughing': life inside Ireland's meat plants
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/14/everyones-on-top-of-you-sneezing-and-coughing-life-inside-irelands-meat-plants-covid-19?

Mississippi poultry worker who died of COVID-19 pushed for better pay, conditions
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2020/05/11/forest-mississippi-poultry-worker-celso-mendoza-dies-coronavirus/3104375001/?

"How Am I Going To Survive?": A Costco Meatpacking Worker Speaks Of Her Fears As She And Others Labor To Keep Chicken In Stores
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/melissasegura/coronavirus-costco-meatpacking-workers-meat-shortage?

A Salisbury father and poultry plant worker died of COVID-19. Are plants putting products before workers?
https://www.delmarvanow.com/restricted/?

Workers in Iowa meat industry fear returning to processing plants
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/workers-iowa-meat-industry-fear-returning-work-200507230006106.html?

A work-while-sick culture and lack of safeguards at meat plants has employees fearing for their lives
https://www.businessinsider.com/few-safeguards-meat-plant-workers-live-in-fear-2020-5

‘I lost him because of that horrible place’: Smithfield worker dies from COVID-19
https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/crime/2020/04/15/smithfield-foods-sioux-falls-sd-worker-dies-coronavirus-hot-spot/2994502001/?

Opinion | Two of My Colleagues Died of Covid-19
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/opinion/coronavirus-worker-deaths.html?

'I am so, so sad': Husband, friends of Cargill worker who died from COVID-19 honour her in memorial
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/memorial-worker-cargill-hiep-bui-covid-death-alberta-1.5554765?

‘Essential worker just means you’re on the death track’
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2020/05/04/meat-packing-essential-worker-hogs-south-dakota-smithfield-food-chain-covid-19-coronavirus-inside/3064329001/?

3 USDA meat inspectors dead, about 145 diagnosed with COVID-19
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-usda-meat-inspectors-3-dead-covid-19/?

“The Workers Are Being Sacrificed”: As Cases Mounted, Meatpacker JBS Kept People on Crowded Factory Floors
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/05/meatpacking-coronavirus-workers-factory-jbs-tyson-smithfield-covid-crisis-sacrifice-outbreaks-beef/?

Listen to one Tyson employee's message to Donald Trump
https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/05/01/meat-poultry-plant-workers-tyson-coronavirus-pkg-marquez-nr-vpx.cnn

'We're modern slaves': How meat plant workers became the new frontline in Covid-19 war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/02/meat-plant-workers-us-coronavirus-war?

Washington Post investigates worker safety violations at meat processing plants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7F_nYFKJFk

Younger Latinos Fear For Their Parents At Meat Packing Plants
https://iowastartingline.com/2020/04/29/younger-latinos-fear-for-their-parents-at-meat-packing-plants/?

'Death is so real:' Immigrant group says meat workers afraid after plant closure
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/death-is-so-real-immigrant-group-says-meat-workers-afraid-after-plant-closure/ar-BB13bSct?

‘Are you ready to go back?’ After covid-19, a poultry worker fears a return to work.
WashingtonPost.com

Smithfield Foods workers say they aren’t allowed to cover mouths to sneeze
https://nypost.com/2020/04/24/smithfield-foods-workers-arent-allowed-to-cover-mouths-to-sneeze-lawsuit/?

USDA Inspector Reportedly Dies Amid Meat-Plant Viral Outbreaks
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-23/usda-inspector-reported-to-die-amid-meat-plant-viral-outbreaks?

“Terrified to Go to Work”: Hundreds of Workers in Meat & Poultry Plants Test Positive for COVID-19
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/14/us_meatpacking_facilities_coronavirus?



WORKERS: Produce

Farmworkers at Central California pistachio strike after dozens test positive for the coronavirus
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-25/farmworkers-at-central-california-pistachio-strike-after-dozens-test-positive-for-the-coronavirus?

Covid-19 is spreading among farmworkers, and it may get worse
https://thefern.org/2020/06/covid-19-is-spreading-among-farmworkers-and-it-may-get-worse/?

COVID-19 Infections Rising Among Vegetable Packing Workers in California
https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2020/06/11/covid-19-infections-rising-among-vegetable-packing-workers-in-california/?

Farmworkers are dying, COVID-19 cases are spiking, and the food system is in peril
https://www.salon.com/2020/05/31/farmworkers-are-dying-covid-19-cases-are-spiking-and-the-food-system-is-in-peril/?

Every Single Worker Has Covid at One U.S. Farm on Eve of Harvest
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-29/every-single-worker-has-covid-at-one-u-s-farm-on-eve-of-harvest?

COVID-Related Strikes Hit Washington’s Apple Sheds
https://capitalandmain.com/covid-related-strikes-hit-washingtons-apple-sheds-0514?

40 percent of positive COVID-19 cases in Monterey County are agricultural workers
https://kion546.com/health/coronavirus/2020/05/06/county-officials-more-than-a-third-of-positive-covid-19-cases-in-monterey-county-are-agricultural-workers/?

Opinion | I Harvest Your Food. Why Isn’t My Health ‘Essential’?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/opinion/covid-farmworkers-paid-leave.html?

Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: 'You can't pick strawberries over Zoom'
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-01/california-farmworkers-coronavirus?



WORKERS: Seafood

America's stay-at-home seafood binge now faces virus threat
https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/business/article/America-s-stay-at-home-seafood-binge-now-faces-15335364.php?

With thousands of seafood workers coming to Alaska, state tries to contain Covid-19
https://thefern.org/2020/06/with-thousands-of-fish-workers-coming-to-alaska-state-tries-to-contain-covid-19/?

About 75% of crew tests positive for coronavirus on seafood processing ship
https://www.fooddive.com/news/about-75-of-crew-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-on-seafood-processing-ship/579415/?

COVID-19 Outbreak In Pacific Northwest Seafood Industry As Season Ramps Up
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/05/870312092/pacific-northwest-seafood-industry-faces-covid-19-outbreak-as-season-ramps-up?

100 people at 3 Louisiana crawfish farms diagnosed with coronavirus in first workplace cluster
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/coronavirus/article_d5c9d8a6-995b-11ea-af6c-23c984f5e1b9.html?

US seafood workers fight unsafe job conditions amid pandemic
https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-07-06/us-seafood-workers-fight-unsafe-job-conditions-amid-pandemic?


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