Source https://www.foodpolitics.com/2020/09/corporate-capture-in-action-e-mails-illustrate-the-meat-industrys-role-in-keeping-plants-open-despite-covid-19/
I’ve written previously (see this one, for example) about the meat industry’s role in keeping plants open despite worker illnesses, but much about the industry’s pressures on government has been based on conjecture. No more.
In another example of the value of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), two groups have obtained e-mails documenting these pressures.
FROM PRO PUBLICA, September 14, 2020: “Emails Show the Meatpacking Industry Drafted an Executive Order to Keep Plants Open: Hundreds of emails offer a rare look at the meat industry’s influence and access to the highest levels of government. The draft was submitted a week before Trump’s executive order, which bore striking simil…
Source https://www.foodpolitics.com/2020/09/corporate-capture-in-action-e-mails-illustrate-the-meat-industrys-role-in-keeping-plants-open-despite-covid-19/
I’ve written previously (see this one, for example) about the meat industry’s role in keeping plants open despite worker illnesses, but much about the industry’s pressures on government has been based on conjecture. No more.
In another example of the value of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), two groups have obtained e-mails documenting these pressures.
FROM PRO PUBLICA, September 14, 2020: “Emails Show the Meatpacking Industry Drafted an Executive Order to Keep Plants Open: Hundreds of emails offer a rare look at the meat industry’s influence and access to the highest levels of government. The draft was submitted a week before Trump’s executive order, which bore striking simil…
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