Maine's top vegan news stories of 2020 - Portland Press Herald
Maine’s top vegan news stories of 2020 While animal-based food processors experienced problems, vegan options abounded on local menus. By Avery Yale Kamila Share The Tyson Foods chicken-processing plant, wedged between Maine Medical Center and Mercy Hospital in Portland, experienced a COVID-19 outbreak in April and was shut for three days, mirroring infections at its other plants around the country. But arguably the biggest animal-based food story in Maine this year was when state investigators found that a dairy farm in Fairfield had contaminated the groundwater, its neighbors, its cows ...