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GRAPHIC: Poultry plants were already dangerous. Then came COVID-19.

By Sky Chadde, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | December 16, 2020

There had been about 8 deaths a year on average across the poultry industry — until this year.

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Investigate Midwest is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our mission is to serve the public interest by exposing dangerous and costly practices of influential agricultural corporations and institutions through in-depth and data-driven investigative journalism.

Database: Tracking Covid-19’s impact on meatpacking workers and industry

USDA photo by Preston Keres

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) meat inspectors and graders perform their mission.

INFECTED, EXHAUSTED, DISTRESSED : A YEAR OF COVID-19 IN MEATPACKING PLANTS

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  • OPINION: USDA just put meat packers on notice

    The CEO's of all the major meat packers have just collectively set their hair on fire and are likely calling internal company meetings RIGHT NOW about how to handle the industry's greatest threat in, like, forever. That's because the United States Department of Agriculture  announced this month that it will attempt to significantly strengthen enforcement […]

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