Tyson's Embarrassment of the Beef Industry

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There really isn't another time in history where you could point to the entire country changing its consumption on a dime. So that's why you now have farmers looking at having to euthanize potentially hundreds of thousands of animals because they can't process them on time. The claims that the ranch was feeding and caring for 200,000 head of cattle for Tyson that never existed.

Cody Easterday was ranching royalty in Washington state until he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for swindling two companies out of $244 million. KUOW’s Anna King — host of the Ghost Herd podcast — explains.

This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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