Grey Moran

‘You Feel Like You’re Marked’: Salvadoran Workers at Tyson Foods Face Risks Due to Work Permit Delays Longtime poultry plant workers are left uncertain and fearing job loss amid Tyson Foods’ confusion over immigrant Temporary Protected Status — despite their legal right to work.

"They followed all the rules."

Salvadoran workers at Tyson's chicken processing plants in Arkansas have a legal right to work in the US. But Tyson is still leaving many workers in limbo.

@greymoran.bsky.social reports: sentientmedia.org/work-permit-...

‘You Feel Like You’re Marked’: Salvadoran Workers at Tyson Foods Face Risks Due to Work Permit Delays Longtime poultry plant workers are left uncertain and fearing job loss amid Tyson Foods’ confusion over immigrant Temporary Protected Status — despite their legal right to work.

Salvadorans with TPS status have the right to work in the U.S.
Yet they were told by Tyson Foods that they'd need to leave the company by March 9th, unless they presented work permits that many applied for a year ago but have yet to receive

sentientmedia.org/work-permit-...

wonderful opportunity for climate journalists!!
I always love reading all the winners, which ends up serving as an incredible collection of climate journalism from around the world

Tech company Palantir has made headlines for its lucrative contracts with the Trump administration. But did you know that Palantir is also used by Tyson Foods?

California’s Avian Flu Safety Rules Are Strong — Their Enforcement Isn’t. As H5N1 infects over 70% of the state’s dairy herds, exposed farmworkers are left without PPE or mitigation training in their native language. And some aren’t informed of an outbreak at all.

As avian flu surges again, advocates in California believe it’s imperative that farmworkers receive more protective gear and training on the virus in their primary language. @greymoran.bsky.social reports:

Food and Farming Journalism Network event: From Public Records Request to Story How to report stories from the records you get — and the ones you don’t. Featuring Sentient’s Nina B. Elkadi and Grey Moran Feb 6, 12:00 PM ET

Public records requests are an invaluable tool for reporters. But knowing how to use them can be challenging.

Join Sentient’s @ninaelkadi.com and @greymoran.bsky.social for this exclusive training by becoming a member of the Food and Farming Journalism Network: buff.ly/6UOsbbA

Dairy and Meat Industries Push for Access to H-2A Farmworkers While the Trump Administration Slashes Their Pay The H-2A visa program, which recruits farm laborers largely from Mexico, has been likened to indentured servitude. The dairy and meat industries want in.

Trump slashed H-2A farmworkers' wages roughly in half, in what's been called "one of the largest wealth transfers from workers to employers in US agricultural history."

The H-2A visa program was already prone to exploitation.

The dairy and meat industries want in.

@greymoran.bsky.social reports:

Dairy and Meat Industries Push for Access to H-2A Farmworkers While the Trump Administration Slashes Their Pay The H-2A visa program, which recruits farm laborers largely from Mexico, has been likened to indentured servitude. The dairy and meat industries want in.

The H-2A visa program, which recruits farm laborers largely from Mexico, has been likened to indentured servitude. The dairy and meat industries want in. @greymoran.bsky.social reports:

How U.S. Taxpayers Bailed Out the Poultry Industry, and Helped Entrench Avian Flu The U.S. has failed to contain bird flu. The $1.46 billion industry bailout is one reason why.

@greymoran.bsky.social: "There’s a common narrative that avian flu is decimating the poultry industry. This article revealed that the many of the largest poultry corporations are actually having bumper years, with the support of taxpayer-funded indemnity payments."
buff.ly/GQGRzG0

This should infuriate you.

A must-read from @monacharen.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4q2uGju

The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?

I spent months talking to many, many people for this long post-mortem of the Inflation Reduction Act: What forces were responsible for creating it, and how could it be gutted so unceremoniously? What might come next?

No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity
newrepublic.com/article/2027...

*351 injuries and illnesses in 2024, as reported to OSHA

Heat Exhaustion, Amputated Fingers, Crushed Limbs: The Hidden Cost of American Turkey Three charts reveal details of the 351 workplace injuries experienced by turkey industry workers in 2024, which include severed fingers, injured corneas and musculoskeletal disorders.

Turkey industry workers make around $18 per hour, at great risk to their health.
@miriamquick.bsky.social & I looked at the 351 injuries - from severed fingers to injured corneas - suffered by the workers who produce the turkey many will enjoy in the coming days

sentientmedia.org/the-hidden-c...

Heat Exhaustion, Amputated Fingers, Crushed Limbs: The Hidden Cost of American Turkey Three charts reveal details of the 351 workplace injuries experienced by turkey industry workers in 2024, which include severed fingers, injured corneas and musculoskeletal disorders.

Three charts reveal details of the 351 workplace injuries experienced by turkey industry workers in 2024, which include severed fingers, injured corneas and musculoskeletal disorders. @greymoran.bsky.social and @miriamquick.bsky.social report:

full article looking at injuries among workers in the turkey industry, including amputated fingers and injured corneas: sentientmedia.org/the-hidden-c...

a workers' compensation attorney told me that he has been pleading with his clients to go to the doctor when injured at work but they're concerned about being apprehended by ICE at the doctor's office
this includes his clients in the injury-prone meatpacking industry
@sentientmedia.org

How the Trump Administration Is Deepening Food Monopolies: A Q&A with Anti-Trust Expert Austin Frerick “The land is producing the most that’s ever produced, but none of that wealth is staying there. So we shouldn’t be shocked that we’re seeing the politics of rage fill that void.”

“The land is producing the most that it has ever produced, but none of that wealth is staying there,” antitrust expert @austinfrerick.bsky.social tells @greymoran.bsky.social. “So we shouldn’t be shocked that we’re seeing the politics of rage fill that void.”

thanks so much, Kayla!

A Congressional Select Subcommittee report (2022) found that Tyson’s legal department drafted the executive order Trump signed forcing meatpacking plants to stay open as Covid raged through plants.

Tyson claimed in court it was shielded from responsibility for the deaths by the executive order.

Some of the most heartbreaking calls I took at the COVID info hotline were from meatpacking workers who wanted to know how to protect themselves at work from getting sick.

this investigative report (by a House subcommittee) answers your questions in a lot of detail, but the short answer is yes. Tyson also lobbied against Covid-19 workplace protections coronavirus-democrats-oversight.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

How America’s Largest Meat Company Leverages Palantir's Surveillance Tech Palantir’s controversial software platform is capable of integrating vast amounts of data — but at what risk?

Full article on Tyson's use of Palantir's surveillance tech here: sentientmedia.org/tyson-foods-...

During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org

How America’s Largest Meat Company Leverages Palantir's Surveillance Tech Palantir’s controversial software platform is capable of integrating vast amounts of data — but at what risk?

America's largest meat company, Tyson Foods, was an early adopter of Palantir, establishing a blueprint for how large food corporations can leverage the surveillance technology. @greymoran.bsky.social reports:

USDA Deletes SNAP Emergency Funding Plan From Its Website The Trump administration’s USDA is refusing to release around $6 billion in contingency funds designated for a lapse in SNAP benefits.

BREAKING: A deleted plan from the USDA website suggests the Trump administration had intended to release contingency funds to keep SNAP running during a government shutdown

@greymoran.bsky.social has the story
sentientmedia.org/usda-deletes...

Police Bodycams Reveal Pattern of Deference to Meat Industry State troopers cited concerns about animal rights activists as justification for blocking journalists from livestock crash sites.

When livestock trucks crash, the results can be gruesome. Bodycam footage obtained by Animal Partisan reveals a pattern of deference to the meat industry, blocking journalists from reporting on the ground. Fascinating yet disturbing read by @greymoran.bsky.social: sentientmedia.org/police-bodyc...

must read reporting from @ninaelkadi.com

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Kansas Greenlights Mega Feedlot in “Sensitive” Water Area Despite community pushback over groundwater pollution and health risks, the 88,000-head feedlot will be one of the largest in the state.

When a realtor asked Merrill Cauble about selling his land to Innovative Livestock Services for their planned feedlot, he didn’t think about it: there was no way he would sell to the organizations he deems to be wreaking havoc on Kansas. @ninaelkadi.com reports:

In Tracking Avian Flu, Data Privacy Stymies Researchers Specific data about H5N1 outbreaks on farms has generally been deemed confidential by state and federal officials.

Glad to see this article about scientists struggling to obtain field-level avian flu data, which the U.S. government collects from farms, republished in @undark.org
It's one of the reasons why avian flu surveillance remains very limited

undark.org/2025/09/16/a...