"And yet, as the United States consumes more meat, our country is engaging in the mass deportation of the workers who cut beef, pork, and chicken.
A poultry processing worker in Arkansas told me about the Trump administration, 'They eat out of our hands.' She noted that at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, meatpacking workers were considered essential and called heroes, but she said, 'Now they are throwing us out of the country.”