By Dan Ferris
A CLEAR PATH TO SOCIETAL DEATH
The largest meat processor in the U.S. sounded the alarm last month... “ The food supply chain is breaking ,” warned John Tyson, chairman and CEO of Tyson Foods (TSN), in an open letter. Tyson spread his message through full-page ads in the New York Times , the Washington Post , and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette . But Tyson’s warning didn’t stop there. As he also cautioned... Farmers across the nation simply will not have anywhere to sell their livestock to be processed, when they could have fed the
nation. Millions of animals – chickens, pigs and cattle – will be depopulated because of the closure of our processing facilities. “Depopulated” is a fancy term that simply means “killed and wasted” instead of “killed and eaten” like we normally do across America. Eating animals means we value their lives. (Large industrial food operations’ cruelty to animals is a topic for another time and place.) I (Dan Ferris) have a soft spot for all animals... but I’m no vegetarian. Humans kill animals for food. Many other species do
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