Meat

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  4/17/2023
  

  Why Meat and Masculinity are a New Culture War Front

  by Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg

  The recent embrace of conspiracy theories around food consumption—liberals want to make us eat insects!—show how a sense of imperiled masculinity is being used to stop necessary conversations about making the food system safe, sustainable, and humane. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1/6/2022
  

  Don’t Make Meat Cheaper. Make It Much More Expensive

  by Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg

  The Biden administration hopes to score political points by making the meat industry more competitive and lowering prices. This is ignoring the horrible costs of cheap meat. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/22/2020
  

  Immigrant Workers Have Borne the Brunt of COVID-19 Outbreaks at Meatpacking Plants

  by Anya Jabour

  The COVID-19 epidemic should remind us of the hazards faced by immigrant meatpacking workers a century ago, and the labor and industry reforms needed to secure their safety.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/1/2020
  

  Meatpacking Work has Become Less Safe. Now it Threatens Our Meat Supply

  by Chris Deutsch

  The modern food system rests on a thin reed of worker abuse and poor sanitation that covid-19 has finally broken.