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Underreported Cause Of Covid-19 Deaths

by SNS
The filthiest places in any country are the slaughterhouses. Animals are defecating and urinating in terror. Their blood spills everywhere.
pigs_in_truck.jpg


The consumption of meat, fish, eggs and dairy products kills more people annually than smoking, alcohol, heroin and other drugs, traffic accidents, iatrogenic deaths. war, domestic violence, and guns combined.combined.

We know that smallpox was originally called cow pox or kine pox, that chicken pox is related to eating chickens, that swine flu is caused by eating pig flesh, that avian flu is caused by ingesting bird parts. There are hundreds of diseases imparted to humans by eating the flesh, fat, and other products of the meat, fish and dairy industries. Owen Parrett MD is one of many authors focusing on the problem. His book is Diseases Of Food Animals.

Yet we have not been warned about the dangers of eating meat, despite the incredibly high numbers of covid-19 deaths at slaughterhouses and the very brief shutdown of cow, pig and chicken slaughterhouses in the US.

Federal regulators failed to act in regards to 'dozens' of slaughterhouse hotspots for the virus.
https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/business/hundreds-of-covid-19-deaths-later-feds-fine-2-slaughterhouses-20200913

Tyson's Waterloo Iowa slaughterhouse had so many infections, the county sheriff advised shutting down the plant. The company ignored the request and more died.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55009228

The same situation happened with Tyson's slaughterhouse in Columbus Junction, Iowa.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2020/10/06/tyson-foods-sued-over-columbus-junction-workers-covid-19-death-iowa/3636300001/

Coronavirus at Smithfield pork plant: The untold story of America's biggest outbreak
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52311877

Smithfield began in Virginia. Smithfield expanded to Germany, Romania, Poland, Mexico, and the UK as well. It is the largest pig slaughtering company in the world and was bought by a Chinese company.
Smithfield-owned Farmer John in Vernon California was fined for failing to protect workers from the virus.
https://www.thepigsite.com/news/2020/11/smithfield-and-subcontractor-face-steep-fines-for-covid-19-violations-in-california

Smithfield pig-killing plant in Sioux Falls Iowa fined by OSHA for failure to protect workers
https://ktiv.com/2020/09/10/osha-fines-smithfield-foods-in-sioux-falls-for-failing-to-protect-employees-from-covid-19-exposure/

Smithfield slaughterhouse in Monmouth NJ had 188 cases.
https://www.aledotimesrecord.com/news/20201013/data-smithfield-plant-had-188-cases

America's largest slaughterhouse worker union says slaughterhouse owners did not protect workers.
http://www.ufcw.org/press-releases/americas-largest-meatpacking-union-condemns-trump-admin-for-failure-to-hold-smithfield-accountable-for-outbreak-of-covid-19-worker-deaths-and-infections/

Philadelphia slaughterhouse worker's family sues Brazilian JBS, largest
cowkilling company in the world, over their loved one's death
https://www.inquirer.com/business/law/jbs-death-pandemic-meat-plant-covid-philly-20200507.html

JBS in Colorado has denied benefits to families of workers who died from virus.
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-jbs-colorado/meatpackers-deny-workers-benefits-for-covid-19-deaths-illnesses-idINKBN26K334

Livingston California chicken slaughterhouse shut down .. Over 300 sickened by covid.
https://www.ehstoday.com/covid19/article/21140670/poultry-plant-closed-after-covid19-kills-8-sickens-392

Food chain's weakest link: slaughterhouses
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/business/coronavirus-meat-slaughterhouses.html

The administration during 2020 quickly reopened abbatoirs which were shut down. The above list is only a fraction of the slaughterhouses in which covid deaths have occurred in the US and around the world.. Because slaughterhouses are the most soul-hardening, violent, dangerous and dirty jobs, owners hire desperate immigrants and refugees.

There are hundreds of diseases imparted to humans by eating the flesh, fat, and other products of the meat, fish and dairy industries. Owen Parrett MD is one of many authors focusing on the problem. His book is Diseases Of Food Animals.

http://pcrm.org



§Owen Parrett has passed on. His work remains
by SNS
G B Shaw asked a man next to him at a dinner party why he had no meat on his plate. The man replied "I am a meat inspector."
by Speak Truth To Power
It is wrong for a hospital to keep a spouse looking in a window as his wife or her husband dies... a spouse should be able to suit up the way a nurse or doctor does
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