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July 14, 2025

What Happened to America’s Meat Recalls? Pandemic-Era Dip Still Lingers.

Melissa Dai Investigate Midwest

The Food Safety and Inspection Service is responsible for monitoring the quality of U.S. meat that is eventually sold throughout the country.

The Trump administration eliminated two food safety committees: the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection and National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods, a warning that food safety is not a USDA priority.

August 3, 2020

Why Does Essential Work Pay So Little... And Cost So Much?

Rebecca Gordon TomDispatch

Students tend to measure fair compensation on two scales. How many years of training and/or dollars of tuition did a worker have to invest to become “qualified” for the job? And how important is that worker’s labor to the rest of society?

August 1, 2017

Meat Industry Blamed for Largest-Ever 'Dead Zone' in Gulf of Mexico

Oliver Milman The Guardian

A new report shows toxins from suppliers to companies like Tyson Foods are pouring into waterways, causing marine life to leave or die.

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