Investigations

A happy and healthy-looking worker in a clean and well-lit dairy. Photo credit: Vera Chang.

Absent Federal Oversight of Animal Agriculture Safety, States and Others Step Up for Change

By Christina Cooke

November 18, 2022

States are extending OSHA powers, overtime, and collective bargaining while labor-driven programs center workers.

Tyson Says Its Nurses Help Workers. Critics Charge They Stymie OSHA.

By Alice Driver

November 17, 2022

An anonymous worker, 48, from Guatemala, has worked at the Tyson in Green Forest, Arkansas, for 20 years. She needs carpal tunnel surgery in both arms, and Tyson doctors have confirmed that she needs it. However, Tyson has told her the company will not cover the cost of the surgery. Her husband, also a Tyson worker, died of COVID in 2020. (Photo by Jacky Muniello for Civil Eats)

Biogas Expansion May Compound Worker Risks

By Kari Lydersen

November 16, 2022

An overhead view of an anaerobic digester pond next to animal barns and a cornfield. (Photo credit: Maas Energy)

‘I Was Coughing So Hard I Would Throw Up’

By Gosia Wozniacka

November 15, 2022

An animal-ag worker carries two piglets in a CAFO.

Animal Agriculture Is Dangerous Work. The People Who Do It Have Few Protections.

By Christina Cooke

November 14, 2022

A dairy worker in a barn. (Photo courtesy of Migrant Justice)

Injured and Invisible: Our Methodology

By The Civil Eats Editors

November 14, 2022

A Milk with Dignity worker in a barn. (Photo courtesy of Migrant Justice)

New Evidence Shows Pesticides Contain PFAS, and the Scale of Contamination Is Unknown

By Lisa Held

November 7, 2022

Green plastic drums with chemicals set in the square

As Drought Hits Farms, Investors Lay Claim to Colorado Water

By Jennifer Oldham

August 10, 2022

illustration of a farmer with a no-RWR sticker on their tractor, in the San Luis valley of Colorado. Illustration by Sarah Gilman.

From Farmland to Frac Sand

By Lisa Held

July 19, 2022

$An overhead view of US Silica's frac sand mine in La Salle County, Illinois. This mine is in front of Diane and Phil Gassman's home. (Photo courtesy of Ted Auch)$

Inside the Effort to Unionize Square Roots, Kimbal Musk’s Vertical Farming Company

By Lucy dean stockton

June 1, 2022

a square roots worker packs basil inside the vertical farm company's facility in Brooklyn in 2018. (Photo by Preston Keres, USDA)

When Seeds Become Toxic Waste

By Lisa Held

April 5, 2022

Investigations

Today’s food system is complex.