The Hartysing Story on Foster Farms, the Chicken Packing Plant

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Hartysing is not his real name. He didn't want to use his real name because he worried it could effect the employment of his family members who work at foster farms, the chicken packing plant. For more on the story, please read a future article i wrote about it. We're going to put a link in the show.

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