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Your Chicken Nuggets May Be Driving the Pandemic

Earlier this year, Tyson Foods, Inc., the biggest chicken and meat company in the United States (ranked fifth in the world), spent just over $2 billion to buy Keystone Foods, the company that makes every single chicken nugget that gets sold by McDonald’s. Keystone Foods is just the latest conquest to be added to Tyson’s […]

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