The pandemic exposed the human cost of the meatpacking industry’s power: ‘It’s enormously frightening’

The message from companies and regulators has been clear: Americans need meat, and workers need to risk their lives to provide it

Early in the pandemic, Covid outbreaks were rampant in America's meatpacking plants - the factories that kill, cut and package animals.

But the chairman of one of biggest meat companies in the US, Tyson, argued that these factories should stay open to feed Americans.