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The Weekend Desk ReportFor completists, there was no column on Friday. "A central Illinois pork-processing plant last year discharged more nitrogen from animal waste into waterways than any other slaughterhouse in the country, according to a report published Thursday," the Tribune reports. In an assessment of water pollution produced by 98 large meat-processing facilities across the United States, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project found that a plant in Beardstown, Ill., owned by meat-processing giant JBS released about 1,850 pounds of nitrogen on average each day into a tributary of the Illinois River. That's the amount contained in raw sewage produced daily by a city with the population roughly the size of Evanston, the report says. "At JBS USA and Pilgrim's, how we leave the planet in a better condition than which we found it is at the heart of each environmental, economic and social decision we make." * FYI, via Wikipedia: "BS USA Holdings, Inc. is an American food processing company and a wholly owned subsidiary of JBS S.A., a Brazilian company that is the world's largest processor of fresh beef and pork, with more than $50 billion in annual sales as of 2017. The subsidiary was created when JBS entered the U.S. market in 2007 with its purchase of Swift & Company . . . "JBS USA's operations can be traced back to 1855, when 16-year-old Gustavus Franklin Swift founded a butchering operation in Eastham, Massachusetts. Its early origins on Cape Cod, led to later Brighton, MA, Albany, NY, and Buffalo, NY locations, and in 1875 Swift and Company was incorporated in Chicago." * Interesting: "In December 2006, six of the company's meat-packing facilities in Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Iowa, and Minnesota were raided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, resulting in the apprehension of 1,282 undocumented immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Peru, Laos, Sudan, and Ethiopia, and nearly 200 of them were criminally charged after a ten-month investigation into identity theft." * Also, bribery investigations. * And: "The USDA has added more stores to the retail distribution list in the JBS Tolleson [a unit of JBS USA] ground beef Salmonella Newport outbreak. The case count still stands at 57 people sick in 16 states," Food Poisoning Bulletin reports. "More than 30% of those patients have been hospitalized because they are so ill. Almost 7 million pounds of ground beef and ground beef products have been recalled." * The USDA had previously complained of "egregious" practices at the Tolleson facility. * In July, the Cass County Gazette named JBS the Business of the Month. - New on the Beachwood . . . The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #221: Are The Blackhawks Back? * Conway Barbour And The Challenges Of The Black Middle Class In 19th-Century America * Recall! Malone's Pork Head Cheese - Weekend ChicagoReddit - Weekend ChicagoGram - Weekend ChicagoTube Sweet Home Chicago / Blues Club Art Tokyo - Weekend BeachBook "Bob Smith" Was A Black Lives Matter Sympathizer With Lots Of Facebook Friends. It Turned Out He Was A White Undercover Police Officer. * Avocados And Almonds Are Not Vegan. Is anything, really? * Chicago Man Makes 500th Blood Donation. - Weekend TweetWood
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- The Beachwood Tip Line: 20 percent. Posted on October 14, 2018 |
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