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Tyson Foods Is Dumping Millions Of Pounds Of Pollutants Into American Waterways
- grayhatter 2y agoI had to stop reading at about > The answer, as CleanTechnica readers who are all above average know, is the flaw in the capitalist model known as “untaxed externalities.” If corporations are able to put the burden of cleaning up the mess they make on the shoulders of the community at large, well then — à la peanut butter sandwiches! — that means there is more money to fatten the compensation packages of executives and pay dividends to shareholders. It’s a process frequently referred to as privatizing the profits and socializing the costs of doing business. Which is really disheartening. I would like to be informed, but I know myself well enough to know that I need less rage bait in my life. I need more clear and objective ideas, and less smoke blown up my ass about how smart I am... Anyone know if there's a measured version of this, that isn't just toxic, ego inflating ragebait?
- airstrike 2y agoAgreed. It may not even be wrong, but it's just so heavy handed I find it insulting "CleanTechnica readers who are all above average" lmao what is even this
- sschueller 2y agoThe article references the guardian article which should be less biased. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/30/tyson-foods-toxic-pollutants-lakes-rivers https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/30/tyson-fo...
- cowsandmilk 2y agoThe UCS report itself isn’t rage-free, but is better. https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/waste-deep#top https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/waste-deep#top
- salawat 2y agoMayhaps the rage is appropriate? Perhaps, objectively speaking, this should upset you. Emotions are not always wrong.
- greenie_beans 2y agofind the waterkeeper for your local watershed, and use their website as a starting point to learn about how companies pollute your watershed.
- jordanreger 2y agoI don't mean to detract from the point of the article but the phrase "according to Quora" made me wince. Even though it follows a relatively minor detail it still feels weird that people use it as a source of real information.
- lolinder 2y agoIn this case, "according to Quora" means "according to Jamil Ahmed, whose qualifications are that he's studying medicine and MBBS."
- deviantbit 2y agoHe isn't a hydrologist?
- CodeWriter23 2y agostudying != credentialed
- lolinder 2y agoI'm definitely aware of that. Nor does studying medicine make you a good source of information for how much a dump truck can carry. Alas, such is the state of Quora.
- sschueller 2y ago"vast majority of meat processing plants in the US are exempt from existing water regulation" Of course they are... Will this ever change? Maybe when every single person in the surroundings have cancer? I sadly somehow doubt it after the debacle I saw in Flint Michigan with lead. When do we finally realize that uncapped capitalism does not work?
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- lagniappe 2y agoThis has very little to do with capitalism and has a lot more to do with politics and bribes and money. Ask yourself when do we finally realize that unsupervised elected officials does not work
- BracketBuster 2y agoThis has EVERYTHING to do with capitalism. The pollution is motivated by the desire to maximize profits by cutting corners on disposal. Also, the industry has bought the politician and writes the legislation. That's capitalism, too, as it's motivated by pure greed.
- feverzsj 2y agoThe whole site feels AI generated.
- lolinder 2y agoNah, it feels like one of the low-quality content farms that were used to train LLMs. Even GPT-3 wouldn't have inserted a sentence like this one: > The answer, as CleanTechnica readers who are all above average know, is the flaw in the capitalist model known as “untaxed externalities.”
- richbell 2y agoBack in my day, this was called "blog spam."
- neilv 2y agoTitle problem: article title currently says "Millions Of Pounds", but HN title currently says only "Pounds", which I think is misleading. Article content supports the "millions of": > Now an investigation by the Union of Concerned Scientists reveals that Tyson Foods, one of the largest food processing companies in the world, has dumped 371 million pounds of pollutants — millions of pounds of toxic pollutants including nitrogen, phosphorus, chloride, oil, and cyanide — into American waterways in the past five years.
- gulced 2y agothanks, fixed.
- underseacables 2y agoYou think this is bad, absolutely DO NOT read about CAFOs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_animal_feeding_operation#:~:text=In%20animal%20husbandry%2C%20a%20concentrated,over%2045%20days%20a%20year https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_animal_feeding_....
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- Hizonner 2y agoDeadly nitrogen is being dumped into our atmosphere!