Tyson Foods Accused of Dumping More Poison Into Waterways Than Exxon, Dow and Koch

[Judi Lynn]

Tyson Foods Accused of Dumping More Poison Into Waterways Than Exxon, Dow and Koch
Friday, 12 February 2016 00:00
By Emerson Urry, EnviroNews | Report

The environmental advocacy group Environment America has released an analysis that concludes meat manufacturer Tyson Foods is a bigger polluter of American waterways than Exxon, Dow, Koch and pretty much anyone else - with the sole exception of AK Steel Holding Corp (and AK Steel only wins by a hair).

The animal-slaughter mega-power is the world's biggest processor of chicken, beef and pork, and is said to be the second largest meat producer in the world. While Tyson Foods' website maintains it "works with thousands of family farmers every day to provide safe nutritious food for people all over the world," animal rights and environmental groups paint a different picture of the company entirely.

Environment America's summation notes that Tyson, like other behemoth polluters, is required to report certain emissions to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) program. When Environment America "crunched the numbers," it concluded the transnational meat marketer was responsible for "104 million pounds of pollutants into US waterways from 2010 to 2014" - and that's excluding emissions in Tyson's food-production footprint not required by the EPA for inclusion in TRI. Only its processing facilities are reported as part of the program. Environment America Analysis of EPA Toxic Inventory Release Program Environment America Analysis of EPA Toxic Inventory Release Program

"The company's pollution footprint includes manure from its contract growers' factory farm operations, fertilizer runoff from grain grown to feed the livestock it brings to market as meat, and waste from its processing plants," the analysis states. In 2014 alone, the company dumped 20 million pounds of toxins into US waterways - a number that remained fairly consistent over a five-year period.

More:
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34810-tyson-foods-accused-of-dumping-more-poison-to-waterways-than-exxon-dow-and-koch

[Wilms]

1. The Clintons.

Look up how Bill made it easier for Tyson to pollute.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. A long tradition at Tyson -- when they were mostly a chicken-farming operation ...

... they were known for dumping chicken poop into Arkansas's rivers.

Even some of their shareholders decided to take action.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Amazing how actions or

decisions by certain people come back to haunt someones campaign. Why to people do the Stupid and expect us to forget or cut them some slack. Geez!!