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Saturday, February 13th, 2016

This Meat Company Dumps More Pollution Into Waterways Each Year Than ExxonMobil

Author:     Natasha Geiling
Source:     Think Progress
Publication Date:     Feb 8, 2016 3:18 pm
 Link: This Meat Company Dumps More Pollution Into Waterways Each Year Than ExxonMobil
Stephan:   Animal waste from industrial animal, fish, and fowl husbandry is an enormous problem. Where I grew up on the Chesapeake Bay and, particularly north up toward Maryland, it got so bad it was the killing the Bay's ecosystem. But even I, who follow this trend pretty closely, was not prepared for this report. Tyson Foods in my view is one of the Villain Corporations. We never buy any Tyson product.

Tyson Foods, one of the largest producers of meat in the world, is responsible for dumping more toxic pollution by volume into U.S. waters than companies like Exxon and Dow Chemical, according to a new analysis from environmental advocacy group Environment America.

The analysis, released last Wednesday, coincides with a decision by Tyson shareholders not to institute a new water policy that would have mandated the company keep better track of its water pollution both inside and outside of its direct facilities.

Water pollution from Tyson Foods comes from a variety of sources, from the fertilizer used by farmers to grow feed for animals to the manure produced by raising thousands of animals in factory farms. But those figures aren’t publicly available, as Tyson is only legally required to report pollution from its processing plants to the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory. According to those reports, Tyson dumped 104 million pounds of pollutants into U.S. waterways between 2010 and 2014 — the second highest volume of toxic discharges reported by any company, and higher than the discharges of companies like US Steel Corp, Koch Industries, and ExxonMobil.

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1 Comment

  1. Joan on Saturday, February 13, 2016 at 4:01 am

    The environmental degradation caused by Tyson is horrendous but is only a tiny speck in the bigger picture of what animal agriculture is doing to the planet. Please watch Cowspiracy. It is on Netflix now.