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Picture this: the incessant growl of conveyor belts, the scent of blood laced with chemicals wafting through damp air. Employees standing shoulder-to-shoulder on greasy floors, gripping knives and scissors, some working while feverish because they are refused paid sick days, some wearing adult diapers because management denies them bathroom breaks.
And in the midst of it all, without pause, chicken carcasses are being relentlessly propelled down the factory line at the rate of 140 birds per minute.
These are the grim facts of life today for many of the United States’ some 250,000 poultry plant workers mostly Black, Latinx or undocumented immigrants who were dubbed essential and kept at their jobs as the devastating Covid-19 pandemic triggered worldwide shutdowns.
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Community raises concerns on hospital merger of Schenectady’s Ellis Hospital and Albany’s St. Peter’s
SCHENECTADY Amy Sarah LaMena had an ectopic scare several years ago. As a Catholic she knew she would have to choose between saving her life and continuing to be there for her other two children and having an abortion or continuing the pregnancy and possibly dying at the Catholic hospital where she sought care.
“As a Catholic the idea of abortion hurt, but not as much as the fear of my two young sons losing their mother,” part of her comment stated. “While I mercifully did not have to face that choice that day, I have thought about it a lot since. Catholic hospitals are only allowed to end a pregnancy through an ‘indirect’ abortion, via a salpingectomy (removal of the Fallopian tube). Will women have to choose to s
WBBJ TV
January 31, 2021
JACKSON, Tenn. –According to a press release, Madison Co. Solid waste convenience centers will have extended hours beginning Monday, February 1.
Per the release, the solid waste convenience centers will now stay open one hour later, remaining open until 6:00 P.M. during the months of February through October.
“We do this during the time change for the safety of citizens and attendants,” Environmental Health Program Director, Candy Overstreet said in the release.
The press release also stated, if more information is needed call the health department at (731) 423-3020, or visit their website.
47abc
December 16, 2020
DELMARVA – The United States Food and Drug Administration made a historic announcement: it’s funding a study that could lead to the removal of longtime restrictions around blood donations by gay or bisexual men.
“So we’re moving from stigma to science based now and I’m real excited but we’ve got a whole year to wait before this study comes to a final report. It’s involving the American Red Cross. It’s involving three or four companies that deal with blood donation or the technology,” says Salvatore Seeley, the Health & Wellness Program Director at CAMP Rehoboth. “I know the wheels of this go rather slowly because we’re talking about since the 80s there’s been this policy in place. So it takes time for people to evolve into different ways of thought.”