Tyson’s Hypocrisy Laid Bare: New Report Exposes Wokewashing, Abuse, and Exploitation
Fair Agriculture Council just released a landmark report—WokeTyson Exposed—that shines a spotlight on one of America’s most powerful and destructive food corporations. The report documents how Tyson Foods has exploited the language of diversity and inclusion to shield itself from scrutiny while inflicting widespread harm on workers, animals, communities, and the environment.
Our report was featured in The HighWire, which described it as a “bombshell” for exposing how Tyson touts Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) commitments while engaging in “child labor, price fixing, worker abuse, animal abuse, wage theft, pollution, bribery, and sexual harassment.” One of the report’s central findings: Tyson’s DEI efforts are a smokescreen—a way to launder its reputation without reforming its abusive core business practices.
“Tyson’s plants are rife with amputations, serious lacerations, chemical burns, and other gruesome injuries. Workers at Tyson plants have been decapitated, crushed, run over and killed or severely burned by fires and explosions,” The HighWire noted, citing language from the report.
For the farmers who contract with Tyson, the company’s promises of opportunity often end in debt and despair. Nearly three-quarters of poultry farmers who contract with Tyson Foods and other major meatpacking companies live below the poverty line. These farmers are locked into predatory contracts that give Tyson total control while leaving families financially ruined when Tyson pulls the plug.
Our report also exposes Tyson’s long history of animal abuse, including undercover investigations that documented animals left to die in filth, workers violently killing chickens, and inhumane slaughter methods that often leave animals conscious as they are electrocuted and boiled.
And while Tyson proudly promotes its internal LGBTQ+ groups and immigrant worker programs, it simultaneously funds anti-LGBTQ politicians, denies protections to vulnerable employees, and allows migrant children to work in dangerous conditions inside its plants.
In fact, Tyson has recently started scrubbing any trace of these supposed values from public view. An analysis of the company’s website found that since November, Tyson has deleted over 30 DEI-related blog posts—including content about George Floyd, Juneteenth, Pride Month, Black history, and more. The bulk of this deletion spree happened shortly after President Trump’s inauguration, a clear signal that Tyson’s commitment to inclusion was always more PR strategy than principle.
As The HighWire summarized, “The report criticizes Tyson Foods as a hypocrite for claiming to support minorities, immigrants, LGBTQ+, and DEI policies while actively causing harm to the communities it purports to care about.”
WokeTyson Exposed is more than a catalog of corporate hypocrisy—it’s a call to action. No corporation should be able to sanitize its abuses with rainbow logos or empty statements about equity. Tyson’s scale of harm demands national attention, real enforcement, and systemic change.
Read the full report here and follow us for updates as we continue exposing the companies that profit off exploitation while pretending to stand for justice.