The silence after the siren: food and agriculture in retreat

image generated via ChatGPT Tyson Foods is to close or divest three facilities, as a historic cattle shortage lays waste to the US meatpacking industry. {Reuters 13 August} https://www.agriculture.com/partners-tyson-foods-says-it-will-close-sell-three-sites-amid-u-s-cattle-shortage-12059640 This, alongside the Taylor Farms lettuce debacle and other food-safety concerns that have been in the news…