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How America’s Largest Meat Company Leverages Palantir’s Surveillance Tech
November 13, 2025
America’s largest meat company, Tyson Foods, became an early commercial adopter of the software in 2020, establishing a blueprint for how large food corporations can leverage Palantir’s surveillance technology.
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Trump’s Tariffs Have U.S. Soybean Farmers Looking for Buyers
October 20, 2025
President Trump’s trade war has hit America’s biggest agricultural export.
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Police Bodycams Reveal Pattern of Deference to Meat Industry
October 10, 2025
State troopers cited concerns about animal rights activists as justification for blocking journalists from livestock crash sites.
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In the Arizona Desert, Where Your Neighbor Is an Alfalfa Farm
October 06, 2025
Water resource “hedge funds” and corporate farms are running the desert dry.
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Analysis: 96.2% of Climate News Stories Don’t Cover Animal Agriculture as a Pollution Source
September 26, 2025
Sentient Media set out to analyze how often climate news reports animal agriculture as a cause of climate change.
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EPA Drops Proposed Rules to Limit Slaughterhouse Waste Pollution
September 11, 2025
Livestock operations in the U.S. produce 1.4 billion tons of manure and other waste, much of which is stored until it can be applied to crop fields, where mis- and overapplication can lead to the leaching of nutrients into nearby waterways.
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Water Pollution Fight in Iowa Hits a Snag as EPA Removes Rivers from ‘Impaired’ List
September 02, 2025
High nitrate concentrations are driven in part by agriculture in Iowa, where livestock operations produce 109 billion pounds of manure each year. Fertilizer runoff from both synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and livestock manure washes excess nitrogen into rivers, streams and groundwater.
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In Rural Pennsylvania, a Free-Range Chicken Farm and Solar Project Is Not What It Seems
August 18, 2025
At a township hearing, a developer revealed the 350,000 chickens would be kept mostly separate from the solar panels and probably “don’t go outside much.”
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In Immokalee, Community Groups Plant With Extreme Heat and Farmworker Neighbors in Mind
August 12, 2025
Volunteers keep an eye out for ICE while others grow and distribute plants like cactus and jute mallow.
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Hundreds of Iowa Meatpacking Employee Visas Revoked
July 22, 2025
200 JBS employees from four countries are losing their U.S. work authorization.
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At an Iowa Pork Plant, Piles of Dead Pigs and Wafting Sulphur Dioxide
July 21, 2025
When climate technology breaks down, the results can be deadly.
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How Georgia Residents Hope to Protect Their River From an Industrial Poultry Farm
July 09, 2025
A proposed 60-house poultry operation near the Satilla River has locals alarmed about pollution, health risks and the future of their water.
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In Vermont, Residents Are Fighting to Free Their Dairy Farmworker Neighbors
July 07, 2025
The dairy industry in Vermont relies heavily on immigrant hires, workers who are now being detained and deported. And sometimes freed.
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