poultry industry

The Party of Law and Order

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 12, 2024

Republicans always respect the law, right? It's all about legality. That must be why Oklahoma has preemptively pardoned the state's entire poultry industry from water pollution laws. Governor Kevin Stitt has now signed into law a measure that gives poultry farmers/companies “immunity” for polluting Oklahoma...

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Have We Learned Anything about the Connections between Work and Pandemics?

By Erik Loomis

On May 13, 2024

Ha ha, of course not, free market baby! Even as it has become increasingly clear that the bird flu outbreak on the nation’s dairy farms began months earlier — and.

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The Food Industry Murders More Workers

By Erik Loomis

On January 29, 2021

The meat industry is absolutely reprehensible. Its treatment of workers has been horrible ever since it and the Eisenhower administration busted the unions in the 50s in order to lower.

O’Malley

By Erik Loomis

In General

On May 16, 2012

It's totally absurd to be thinking about who the Democrats will nominate for the presidency in 2016, yet for politically-minded people, it's almost inevitable. That includes me. I've spent way too much time thinking about the different possibilities and who I would support among them...