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Tyson Foods Sued In Latest Meatpacker ‘Greenwashing’ Claim

October 1, 2024 Andy Coyne, Just Food. Resist! Capitalism, climate crisis, greenwashing, Meat Industry, Tysons Foods

Tyson Foods is being sued by campaigners who claim the US meat major is making “unsubstantiated environmental claims” about its products – known colloquially as greenwashing. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) filed the suit under the District of Columbia Consumer Protection Procedures Act, or CPPA, in D.C. Superior Court. The US arm of Brazilian meat giant JBS was similarly sued earlier this year. Jimmy Dean and Hillshire Farm brands owner Tyson has been accused of “capitalising on consumers’ interest in purchasing climate-friendly foods by falsely claiming it will be net-zero by 2050 and marketing its industrial beef products as ‘climate-smart’”.

As Arkansas Tyson Plant Closes, Workers Strike Over Treatment

April 28, 2023 Rachell Sanchez-Smith and Olivia Paschal Labor Notes. Resist! Arkansas, Food and Agriculture, Tysons Foods, Worker Rights and Jobs

Striking workers gathered in front of a Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in Van Buren, Arkansas, earlier this month, holding protest signs reading “Justice for Workers” and chanting in Spanish “si se puede” (“yes we can”) and “juntos venceremos” (“together we’ll win”). A few weeks earlier, they received notice from Tyson—the multinational poultry and meat processing giant headquartered about an hour away in Springdale, Arkansas—that their plant would be shuttered on May 12. The Van Buren plant employs almost 1,000 workers, many of them immigrants from El Salvador, Mexico, and Laos, some of whom have worked there for decades.

Meatpacking Workers Say Tyson Foods Makes Them Fight To See The Doctor

April 27, 2023 Luis Feliz Leon, In These Times. Organize! Food and Agriculture, Health Care, Meat Packers, Tysons Foods, Worker Rights and Jobs

The open gash on his right arm oozed blood in a crimson arc, like a neat lipstick smear. It dripped down fast, breaking out into rivulets, so he pushed his arm away from his body. The blood settled in a pool on the floor. Andre Ngute sustained this painful injury in March 2022 at a Tyson Foods meatpacking plant in the tiny rural town of Columbus Junction, Iowa (population 2,132). He had been working elbow-to-elbow on the kill floor wielding sharp knives when one slipped and sliced him. (Ngute requested to use a pseudonym because he fears retaliation.) Nurses in Tyson’s on-site infirmary wrapped his arm in brightly colored bandages.

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