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Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic slaughterhouse pollutants into US rivers and lakes

From Amy Jones, SpeciesUnite.com
May 2024

Tyson released 87 billion gallons of wastewater, containing contaminants including blood, bacteria, and animal feces, directly affecting water sources relied upon for drinking, fishing, and recreation.

Tyson dumps wastewater

The biggest meat producer in the United States has dumped millions of pounds of pollutants into America’s rivers and lakes over the last five years, endangering wildlife and ecosystems, and potentially human health, a new investigation has revealed.

From 2018 to 2022, 41 Tyson slaughterhouses and mega processing plants were responsible for releasing 371m lb of pollutants, including nitrogen, phosphorus, chloride, oil and cyanide, into waterways, according to the investigation by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

According to the findings, published in a report titled Waste Deep: How Tyson Foods Pollutes US Waterways and Which States Bear the Brunt, Tyson released 87 billion gallons of wastewater into streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands. This wastewater contained contaminants mixed with blood, bacteria, and animal feces, directly impacting water sources used for drinking water, fishing, and recreation.

“As the nation’s largest meat and poultry producer, Tyson Foods plays a huge role in our food and agriculture system and has for decades exploited policies that allow big agribusiness corporations to pollute with impunity,” said Omanjana Goswami, co-author of the report and an interdisciplinary scientist with the Food and Environment Program at UCS. “In 2022, the latest year for which we have data, Tyson plants processed millions of cattle and pigs and billions of chickens, and discharged over 18.5 billion gallons of wastewater, enough to fill more than 37,000 Olympic swimming pools.”

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Posted on All-Creatures.org: May 18, 2024
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