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You’ve never seen this company’s name on a package of ground beef or steak.

That’s because the world’s largest beef producer
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But U.S. consumers buy millions of pounds of JBS beef every year, under brand
names like Cedar River Farms, Swift Black Angus, 5 Star Reserve and others, in
stores like Costco, Walmart and Kroger, to name a few.

Consumers also unknowingly support JBS when they buy burgers at fast food chains
like McDonald’s and Burger King, and at other restaurants supplied by the meat
giant.

JBS supplies Sysco, the world’s largest food distributor, which supplies
hundreds of restaurants, hospitals, government agencies, nursing homes, schools
and hotels.

Sysco, in turn, wholesales JBS meat and other food products to Aramark and
Sodexo, food distribution companies that also supply institutions like schools,
hospitals, government agencies, prisons and more.

JBS is big. It's the biggest of the world’s Big Meat
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According to this July 2019 report
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“When it comes to scandals, you can take your pick — during its rapid rise to
become the world’s biggest meatpacker, JBS and its network of subsidiaries have
been linked to allegations of high-level corruption, modern-day “slave labour”
practices, illegal deforestation, animal welfare violations and major hygiene
breaches. In 2017 its holding company agreed to pay one of the biggest fines in
global corporate history—$3.2bn—after admitting bribing hundreds of politicians.
Yet the company’s products remain on supermarket shelves across the world, and
its global dominance only looks set to grow further.”

This week, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported
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highlights the meat giant’s role in burning down [[link removed]] the Amazon Rainforest, the “lungs of the planet.”

Given how far JBS’s tentacles reach, you may think it’s impossible to avoid
supporting the company, no matter how corrupt, exploitative and destructive its
practices.

But you can. By making it a point to find out where your steak and burgers come
from. And by aligning your meat purchase with your values.

Read 'Big Beef: You May Not Recognize the Name. But This Bad Actor’s Meat Is
Sold Everywhere—Except by Your Local Grass-Fed Farmer or Rancher.'
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SIGN THE PETITION: It’s Time for Radical Reform: No More Factory Farms!
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MILLIONS AGAINST MONSANTORIGHT TO KNOW

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The years-long campaign to require labels on genetically engineered food and
food ingredients ended badly about four years ago, on August 1, 2016.

That’s when when then-President Obama caved
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GMO.

This week, a coalition of retailers and nonprofits launched a lawsuit
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“nullified and then revised.”

The successful hijacking of the legislative process by Monsanto and Big Food
lobbyists desperate to avoid transparency about products and production
processes wasn’t new four years ago, and hasn’t changed since.

Today, Congress is enabling Big Food by allowing Big Meat to do everything from suppress data
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Our job, as consumers, honest retailers, organic
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doing everything we can to hold big corporations and the politicians they’ve
captured accountable.

Meanwhile, check out this analysis
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consumers in the dark.

Read the lawsuit
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Read ‘GMO Labeling: USDA ‘Bioengineered’ Labeling Rules Are Unlawful, Argues
Lawsuit’
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COVID-19FOOD FIRST

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In April, when we were still grappling with the mere idea of a pandemic,
Mercola.com published an article on how best to defeat the coronavirus: Fix your
health, by fixing your diet.

Last week the Federal Nutrition Research Advisory Group published a white paper
[[link removed]] echoing that advice, and going so far as to conclude that Americans’ diets are
so poor, they threaten U.S. security:

“Stark national nutrition challenges were identified. More Americans are sick
than are healthy, largely from rising diet-related illnesses. These conditions
create tremendous strains on productivity, health care costs, health
disparities, government budgets, US economic competitiveness, and military
readiness. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has further laid
bare these strains, including food insecurity, major diet-related comorbidities
for poor outcomes from COVID-19 such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity, and
insufficient surveillance on and coordination of our food system and national
security.”

The Mercola article
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conditions like heart disease and diabetes are linked to “poorer clinical
outcomes,” such as admission to an intensive care unit (ICU), a need for
invasive ventilation or death.

As the pandemic rolls on, and new studies emerge, some early observations remain
just as relevant four months later: Diabetes in particular puts patients at high
risk for infection and poor outcomes.

If ever there were a time to take control of your health, to address your
diabetes or other diet-related health problems, now would be that time. This article
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Read ‘Want to Defeat Coronavirus? Address Diabetes and Hypertension’
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SIGN THE PETITION: Stop the Genetic Engineering of Viruses! Shut Down All
Biowarfare Labs Now!
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MORE ON COVID-19

Watch ‘Bret Weinstein and Yuri Deigin: Did Covid-19 leak From a Lab?’
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Read ‘Lab-Made? SARS-CoV-2 Genealogy Through the Lens of Gain-of-Function
Research’
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Read ‘SARS-CoV-2 — A Biological Warfare Weapon?’
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“The longer and harder the status quo is maintained, the greater the system
contorts. Eventually, it breaks and reforms. The question is how.” — Chris
Oestereich, author of “Pandemic Capitalism”

If you’ve been following our work around ending factory farming and
transitioning to an organic regenerative food and farming system, you know we’ve
been calling for “radical systems change.”

We just don’t think making small “improvements” to a fundamentally corrupt and
broken system, a system built on the exploitation of humans, animals and nature,
is a solution.

In his book, “Pandemic Capitalism,” Chris Oestereich makes the case that our
“current flavor of ‘no holds barred’ capitalism,” designed to exploit the many
for the benefit of the few, is at the breaking point.

Writing about his book, Oestereich points to the recent failures of the
industrial food system as a perfect example of how our “brittle” economic system
is collapsing in the face of the coronavirus pandemic:

“By late April 2020, 5,000 workers had tested positive and dozens of plants had
closed. Millions of animals were led to slaughter with no intent of feeding
people. Instead, they were killed in service of mitigating financial losses. At
a time when hunger was rife, we learned that a system built for efficiency was
indifferent to challenges beyond its balance sheets.”

Oestereich says the current system is dying, but says it won’t go quietly:

"We can allow it to continue thrashing about and possibly give rise to something
even darker, or we can fight to build something better.”

We’re fighting for something better.

Please join us, either by engaging with us on social media, by signing petitions
and contacting lawmakers, sharing our work widely with family and friends . . . or if you are able, please make a financial contribution. Thank you.

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Next time you think to yourself, “I’m dying for cheeseburger,” think about this:
There are slaughterhouse workers actually dying so Big Meat
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chains.

According to the Food & Environmental Reporting Network’s latest numbers
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Who’s responsible? Five, huge, billionaire-owned companies—and the politicians
they’ve bought off
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As the Union of Concerned Scientists reported
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politicians looking out for Big Meat, not workers:

“Secretary Perdue’s alignment with big corporate interests over the public
interest has been clear for a while. But his knee-jerk reaction to this case,
along with related pending actions at his USDA, suggests that he is willing to
throw workers, farmers, rural residents, consumers, and clean air and water
overboard to protect Big Pork’s bottom line.”

Meatpacking workers should be protected, no question. But the real solution is
to transition those workers to better paying, safer jobs in an organic
regenerative food and farming system, or some other industry.

Meanwhile, how can consumers help?

#BoycottBigMeat
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network of smaller, more humane (for animals and workers) processing facilities.

And stay away from McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King and the like.

Watch ‘Behind Closed Doors . . . in America’s Meat Processing Plants’
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CHECK THIS OUT: Find grass-fed and pasture-raised meat and animal products near
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Gates Foundation’s ‘Failing’ Green Revolution in Africa: New Report
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Meat Industry Campaign Cash Flows to Officials Seeking to Quash COVID-19
Lawsuits
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A Skeptical Farmer’s Monster Message on Profitability
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How COVID-19 Made It Easier to Talk About Climate Change
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Willie Nelson Backs Regenerative Agriculture on His 500-Acre Luck Ranch
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Consumers Hold the Key to Building a Better Meat System
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