EWG News Roundup (5/1): Despite COVID Outbreaks, Trump Forces Meat Processing Plants To Stay Open, Rethinking Beauty Routines at Home and More

[ad_1] On Tuesday President Trump signed an executive order that declared meat-processing facilities essential businesses during the pandemic, despite the growing number of COVID-19 outbreaks causing factory workers falling ill and dying. “Sending workers back to meat-processing plants without proper protection is tantamount to a death sentence,” said EWG senior vice president of government affairs […]

EWG: Without Worker Protections, Trump’s Planned Order To Keep Meat Plants Open During Pandemic Could Be a Death Sentence

[ad_1] WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed an executive order today declaring meat-processing plants essential infrastructure and allowing the Agriculture Department to use the Defense Production Act to force them to stay open during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the growing numbers of food and farm workers sickened by the virus, according to a report by Bloomberg […]