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  Workers Walk Out After Fourth Worker Death At Smithfield Meat Plant cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/53152091 Following an anonymous complaint in February, OSHA inspected the plant and fined Smithfield Foods $9,931.60 after observing workers’ exposure to “amputation hazards.” This was preceded by serious citations in 2021, 2023, and 2025. Working in a slaughterhouse is extremely dangerous. In the US, there are approximately two amputations per week, primarily due to the industry’s poor w...

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  New Zealand’s pasture based systems aren’t exactly the idealistic visions people have of them. Even just environmentally, their attempts to scale them up have required huge amounts of fertilizer and lead to huge amounts of pollution. For instance for their dairy production: The large footprint for milk in Canterbury indicates just how far the capacity of the environment has been overshot. To maintain that level of production and have healthy water would require either 12 times more rainfall i...

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  Continuing both the "this vegan shit easy" and bean trend on here

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  Someone couldn’t just be trying to be funny after they’ve gone vegan?

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  Not Our Gains

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  Accidental Environmentalist

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  The Logical Continuation of Where Things Are Going

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  In English, the word “milk” has been used to refer to “milk-like plant juices” since 1200 CE.[11] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_milk