The United States federal government allocates a staggering $38 billion annually to prop up the meat and dairy industries. These subsidies significantly reduce the price of meat products, including hamburgers. Research from 2015 reveals that these subsidies slash the price of a pound of hamburger meat from $30 to the $5 we see...
Free-Market Advocate, Elon Musk, Asks for U.S. Government to Put Tariffs on Chinese EV Imports (medium.com)
A Pound of Hamburger Meat Would Cost $30 Without Tax Payer Subsidies (medium.com)
The United States federal government allocates a staggering $38 billion annually to prop up the meat and dairy industries. These subsidies significantly reduce the price of meat products, including hamburgers. Research from 2015 reveals that these subsidies slash the price of a pound of hamburger meat from $30 to the $5 we see...
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TIL Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept the Feminist Movement From Discussing Class; only Gender (medium.com)
TIL: The Phrase “Death To America” Didn’t exist Before the CIA Overthrew the Iranian Government for Nationalizing their Oil in 1953 (medium.com)
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TIL Most Explosives used by Hamas Are Unexploded Israeli Bombs Dropped on Palestine (medium.com)
Report: Facebook Parent Company Meta has been Censoring and Shadow Banning Pro-Palestinian Accounts (medium.com)
Around 920,000 shelter animals are euthanized annually in the United States, with 390,000 of those being dogs (medium.com)
From 2017 to 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor recovered $3 billion in stolen wages from employers (medium.com)
Wage theft now outnumbers all other types of theft in the U.S., reaching $482 million (medium.com)
Elon Musk’s Boring Company has been cited for multiple safety violations with workers exposed to chemical sludge (medium.com)
hmmm (lemmy.world)
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85,000 Police Officers in the USA have been investigated or disciplined for misconduct over the past decade (medium.com)
How The New York Times Lied During the Red Scare in the 1950’s and Now They are Lying Again about Israel (medium.com)
The New York Times and the Great Red Scare: A Historical Examination
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Pesticide Use Has Increased by Over 80% since 1990, Causing Pollinator Declines and Water Contamination (medium.com)
Poll: Around 25% of young people in the lowest-income households feel “people like me don’t have much of a chance in life” (medium.com)
fack the cappers (lemmy.world)
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The number of Slaughterhouses in the UK has declined from 320 in 2003 to just 249 in 2018, a drop of over 20% in 15 years (medium.com)
Breaking: Samsung Pulls Out of Israel Amid Moral and Economic Decline (medium.com)
TIL: Benjamin Netanyahu’s Family Originally had the Surname Mileikowsky When They Came to Palestine from Poland in the 1920s (medium.com)