It was a meat-packing plant that handles a significant portion of the beef processed in the whole country. Beef that we can't really export anymore because Trump thinks trade deficit is the same thing as a credit card and RFK is trying to kill us all.

Climate change may have had a hand in the drought, but the proximate cause for this is much more likely Trump's incompetent trade policy. If Tyson didn't see a recession coming, they'd likely retooled the plant to something else rather than scuttle the whole thing.

Carnism is a major cause of the climate apocalypse, not a result.

I've always thought that was from the old military expression, 2 in the chest, 1 in the head.

Ironically, a decent chunk of the most successful businesses out there actually did start in an economic downturn, however I suspect survivorship bias is playing a role there.

anyway

FYI, you're only displaying your own ignorance here.

Poverty and obesity go hand in hand

Yup yup, best find those bootstraps and start pullin', reaaal hard.

Oh what, you're obese and crippled and old and tired?

... did I stutter ...?

Tyson

they saw the profit in artificial scarity in beef prices, they are doing this on purpose.

Yeah, and i find it funny that these people voted for a party that consistently shits on climate change legislation and conservation efforts yet their entire livelihood is being wiped out due to drought condition caused by both climate change and lack of conservation.

Hey. Hey. Hey.

Shut the fuck up.

Conservatives have been laughing at, and gleefully promoting and participating in, the human suffering of gay people, black people, Asian people, poor people, veterans, working people, the handicapped, neurodivergant people, religious minorities, child slavery, victims of war, and women. (And more people, these are just folks I can't up with off of the dome)

Republicans actively push to fuck over all of the above constantly.

Anyone who isn't their idealized version of a Christian white male can get fucked as far as they care.

So when the people who want that, who vote for it, and get those people into power get fucked over, suddenly they cry out for empathy and if people even report about it they are being big ol meanies? When they were saying any Democrat or liberal or lefty is a pansy ass crybaby?

No, they can get fucked, because they only care about suffering if it happens to them. The tolerant left, which has historically tried to just make things better for everyone, including conservative dipshits, is starting to die out. Conservatives saying "oh well they are suffering too" has been bait conservatives have used to get the left to backtrack on any aggressive behavior, using empathy as a way to stop people from making progress, all while laughing at us.

That bait has rotted and no one is taking it anymore.

I have absolutely no sympathy for these people anymore, they knew exactly what they were voting for, didn't care who got fucked over because they wanted to own the libs, and now they have to deal with the bed they shat in.

So fuckem and fuck you.

Vote like a dipshit, suffer like a dipshit.

Weird how all these regions who have voted Republican for decades upon decades live like shit.

Question, do you ever have anything else but "libs" on your mind? They're all you ever talk about and it's concerning how much they live rent-free in your head.

Yeah, actually. If only trump voters hadn't spitefully tried to hurt anyone who they view as "other", they might not have ended up here. Tough shit. Better start tugging on those bootstraps.

the lack of self-awareness in your comment is fucking astonishing. 😆

Fuck off and preach at the persons CAUSING all this ! You know, Donny 2 Inches and his mates. You fucking both siders make me want to puke!