Chicken Country, North Carolina: Justice on the Factory Floor

On this episode of Living Downstream: The Environmental Justice
Podcast, Victoria Bouloubasis visits a rural county where the
multicultural workforce kept America fed during the pandemic.
We'll meet Esmeralda, who has become a community health worker,
and her mother Marta, who works in a poultry plant.


In the face of blatant mistreatment and inadequate protection,
food factory workers in North Carolina became sick, and died, in
unacceptably high numbers. This mother-daughter team stepped up
to protect the health of their neighbors and coworkers, efforts
they continue today.


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