Liberal America: I get it. You hate McDonald's and the Olive Garden. But if you truly hate the greed and destruction of corporate food giants, could we have a discussion about how to hold them accountable rather than demonizing people who eat at those places? https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1348702734900346882
Chains like McDonald's and Olive Garden source their beef, pork, & chicken from giant meatpackers like JBS, Cargill, Smithfield, and Tyson. As @leahjdouglas has painstakingly documented, these are the sites of some of our worst #COVID19 outbreaks in the US https://thefern.org/2020/04/mapping-covid-19-in-meat-and-food-processing-plants/
People eat this food because it's cheap and available. And it's cheap because of a long history of worker abuse in the food industry. And people can't afford better food because of depressed wages in other sectors. People are NOT bad because they can only afford McDonald's.
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