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In Cherokee, Iowa, some six hundred workers at a plant manufacturing deli meats for tyson foods accepted a new contract in 2004 that slashed the starting wage for new employees from $10.69 to $9.00 an hour. As part of the deal, the union members agreed to start paying 25 percent of their medical costs, which before had been fully paid by Tyson. The workers also agreed to replace their pension plan with a 401 (k) retirement plan, a step taken by a growing number of American companies to save money on one type of employee benefit while they spent ever more on health care.

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Espy accepted a variety of favors from lobbyists for tyson foods, then the world's largest chicken-processing company (and now the largest producer of beef as well). Early in 1994, federal investigators accused Mr. Espy of violating the Meat Inspection Act by accepting—or permitting a companion to accept—airline travel, tickets to sporting events, a small scholarship, and other gifts worth about $12,000 from tyson foods, plus similar gifts from other meat and poultry companies. The results of that investigation forced Mr.

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Canada border in order to gain entry will be rounded up by volunteer bird watchers armed with high-powered binoculars and delivered to Tyson Foods' Guantanamo Bay Division for interrogation at the hands of experienced bird torturers. (Torture photos will be posted online by Dick Cheney.) Parrots that unquestioningly repeat everything they hear may be offered jobs as reporters covering the White House beat. Birds who attempt to impersonate chickens will be eaten by Morgan Spurlock.

Citizens caught harboring undocumented birds in undeclared bird houses will be deemed "enemy combatants" and subjected to the whims of tyson foods foul interrogators. All birds made of white meat are hereby requested to report to their nearest INS facility for processing into Chicken McNuggets. Questions about these policies should be directed to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's food pyramid website, which has the same answer for everyone: "Drink more milk." The Department of Homeland Insecurity, Multiplication Division Authored by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.

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FOOD ORGANIZATIONS CONTRIBUTING TO CCF (2001-2002)21 Applebee's International (restaurant chain—$15,000) Dean Foods Company (dairy—$5,000) Excel/Cargill (beef-$200,000) tyson foods (chicken—$200,000) Pilgrim's Pride (poultry—$100,000) Perdue Farms (chicken—$40,000) Coca-Cola Company ($200,000) Outback Steakhouse (restaurant chain—$164,600) Wendy's International ($200,000) The Center for Media and Democracy obtained this information about corporate donations through an insider whistleblower. Why It Matters You might be thinking, so what?

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Governor Clinton, Time said, showered "the largest chicken producer, tyson foods, with millions of dollars in tax breaks for expanding its plants and workforce," and provided other development incentives as well. What's more, state regulators under Clinton took a relaxed attitude toward enforcement of the state's environmental regulations, permitting the poultry industry to *The only entities producing more chicken than tyson foods are the countries of Brazil and China. pollute hundreds of miles of rivers, streams, and groundwater with chicken feces and contaminated water.

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If nothing else, it worked greatly to Tyson Foods' advantage to keep Mr. Espy preoccupied with responses to legal challenges from a special prosecutor. As if the political nature of this situation were not transparent enough, one of President Clinton's last acts in office was to grant presidential pardons to Mr. Blackley and six food company executives and lobbyists who had been convicted of attempting to corrupt Mr. Espy. Reportedly, the White House invited defense lawyers to request the pardons, and granted them just hours before George W. Bush took office as president in January 2001.

Espy of violating the Meat Inspection Act by accepting—or permitting a companion to accept—airline travel, tickets to sporting events, a small scholarship, and other gifts worth about $12,000 from tyson foods, plus similar gifts from other meat and poultry companies. The results of that investigation forced Mr. Espy to resign from his position as USDA secretary, and a later investigation by a special prosecutor led to his indictment by a federal grand jury. Eventually, Mr.

As a further example of such consolidation, tyson foods, "the world's largest fully integrated producer, processor and marketer of chicken and chicken-based convenience foods," merged with IBP, "the world's largest supplier of premium fresh beef and pork products," to create the world's largest provider of animal protein. This 2001 merger resulted in a company that controls about 28% of the world's beef, 25% of the chicken, and 18% of the pork.

Tyson Foods among them, said they would reduce use of enrofloxacin, and McDonald's said it had decided a year earlier not to use meat from animals treated with fluoroquinolone antibiotics.33 Anthrax is not yet resistant to cipro, but it is likely to become so if the drug is given indiscriminately to large numbers of people who do not need it and do not complete the full course of treatment. The continued use of the analogous drug in chickens will almost certainly increase the numbers and kinds of resistant bacteria.

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Circumstances surrounding the Espy controversy included: þA tyson foods executive was convicted of making illegal gifts to Espy. þTyson's chief lobbyist was found guilty of lying to the FBI about these favors. þTyson admitted guilt and paid $6 million in fines and costs. þA California agriculture cooperative was convicted in federal court of "showering" Espy with gifts, including fancy restaurant meals and an all-expenses-paid trip for Espy and his girlfriend to the U.S. Open tennis tournament.

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As noted earlier, tyson foods was then the largest producer of chickens in the world and was soon to become the largest producer of beef as well. Of the 25 million pounds of hamburger recalled, 10 million pounds were recovered, an amount significantly higher than for most recalls. For example, a late 1990s recall of E. coli 0157^7-contaminated hamburger from Beef America recovered only 400 of 443,656 pounds. Furthermore, the average percentage of product recovered in recalls fell from 40% in 1997 to 17% in 2000.

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Espy accepted a variety of favors from lobbyists for tyson foods, the world's largest chicken-processing company. Early in 1994, federal investigators began examining whether Mr. Espy had violated the Meat Inspection Act by accepting—or permitting a companion to accept—airline travel, tickets to sports events, a $1,200 scholarship, and other gifts worth about $12,000 from that company, and gifts of similar magnitude from other meat and poultry producers. This investigation resulted in Mr. Espy's forced resignation and the appointment of a special prosecutor.

The donation by tyson foods of tickets to sporting events demonstrated that even small favors are useful to companies if given at the right time—in this case, when the USDA was proposing to require poultry producers to test for Salmonella and other disease-causing microbial contaminants. At the very least, it was to Tyson's advantage to keep Mr. Espy preoccupied with responding to legal challenges from a special prosecutor.

Early estimates were that the settlement would involve more than $1 billion, but three-quarters of the nearly 300 companies participating in the class-action suit (among them huge companies such as tyson foods and Quaker Oats) decided to seek settlements on their own. The remaining settlement amounted to just $255 million.27 Although it might seem self-evident that price fixing harms the public by making foods cost more, at least one business economist argues otherwise.

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The added water weight provides tyson foods Inc., one of the nation's largest poultry companies, with $40 million in extra annual gross profits."14 How did the U.S. meat industry respond to Public Citizen's report? Not with a lot of appreciation. Dan Murphy, editor of Meat Marketing and Technology, evidently did not feel hampered from having a strong opinion of the report by the detail that he hadn't actually read most of it. He wrote, "The Public Citizen report ... is some of the worst, most turgid, most blatantly slanted pseudo-science I've ever encountered. Not that I made it past page six.

Only entities producing more chicken than Tyson Foods: The countries of China and Brazil18 U.S. turkey market controlled by the six largest processors: 50 percent19 U.S. beef market controlled by the four largest beef-packers: 81 percent20 U.S. hog slaughter controlled by four corporations: 50 percent21 In North Carolina there is a particular hog producer whose net worth in 1997 was more than $1 billion.22 His name is Wendell Murphy. Wendell Murphy accumulated much of his fortune while serving three terms in the North Carolina State House and two in the Senate.

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What's more, state regulators under Clinton took a relaxed attitude toward enforcement of the state's environmental regulations, permitting the poultry industry to *The only entities producing more chicken than tyson foods are the countries of Brazil and China. pollute hundreds of miles of rivers, streams, and groundwater with chicken feces and contaminated water. "The boom years for Tyson paralleled Clinton's time as a governor consumed with the cause of economic growth for his rural, impoverished state," said the Washington Post.

He now faces a year in prison on each of the two counts. tyson foods also pleaded guilty to providing illegal gratuities to Espy while the company had business before the USDA and was fined a total of $6 million. Espy's former chief of staff was convicted of lying to conceal payments from farming associates and sentenced to serve 27 months in prison. Another major agribusiness corporation was fined $1.

Don Tyson, the senior chairman of the board of tyson foods of Arkansas—the world's largest poultry processor* and one of the nation's leading seafood and pork producers— maintains close ties to the White House. In addition to being a longtime Clinton friend, Tyson was also the second-largest contributor to a $220,000 fund that Clinton used to pursue his Arkansas political agenda. During his governorship, Bill Clinton had courted the huge Arkansas poultry industry in an effort to create jobs for his state.

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