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It was a meat-packing plant that handles a significant portion of the beef processed in the whole country. Beef that we can't really export anymore because Trump thinks trade deficit is the same thing as a credit card and RFK is trying to kill us all.
Climate change may have had a hand in the drought, but the proximate cause for this is much more likely Trump's incompetent trade policy. If Tyson didn't see a recession coming, they'd likely retooled the plant to something else rather than scuttle the whole thing.
I also read on another thread: many of the plant workers are immigrants and there's been increasing tension between the workers and the "native" townies. So there's a decent contingent of town folk who are happy the plant is closing, and think their communities will adjust to living without the plant workers spending their money locally.
"think" is a rather generous phrasing of what they're doing.
Please don't rain on this lib parade with a story of the actual victims.
Yeah, and growing crops uses up vast swathes of land and tons of water, so what? We're human and we need food, and we have to pay a price for that. The trick is to balance the benefit with the expense.
You aren't looking for a solution, you are only interested in promoting your personal agenda, which people here aren't interested in. If you don't want to eat meat, that's your free choice, but your self-righteousness is cringy.
If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares