![]() The Ghost shows Tyson execs the homes and lives of the people that worked for them at that time. Tyson proclaiming to workers that people are the heart of the company. The Ghost brings them to the floor of one of their first plants in Springdale, where they find John W. ![]() John’s business is flourishing in Arkansas, he has brought new economic opportunity for many people in the state just as the US was coming out of the Great Depression. He provides a crucial market for Arkansas farmers who turned to poultry after the fruit market collapsed in the 1920s. Tyson, who founded Tyson Foods in 1935, paying plant workers a living wage. The Ghost of Christmas Past enters the Springdale, Arkansas, board room of Tyson Foods and without a sound, whisks away the current company CEO Donnie King and Members of the Board back in history to Tyson’s beginnings. He declares that three spirits will visit the company starting this evening. In my retelling, the ghost warns Tyson Foods that its mistreatment of workers and farmers, the price fixing, and the damage it has done to many communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, is not worth all the money in the world. After returning home from a busy day at the office with his apprentice Bob Cratchit, Scrooge turns in for the night and is visited by the ghost of his old business partner Jacob Marley, who laments about his eternity in chains, which he “forged in life” because of his avarice. Greedy just like Scrooge, all of Tyson Foods’ good fortune comes at a steep cost to others, especially to the company’s workers and their families, the proverbial Bob Cratchits of the Christmas Carol story. As our recent report found, Tyson Foods has a particularly tight grip on chicken markets, especially in its home state of Arkansas.Įven as the pandemic has turned supply chains upside down, Tyson and other big meat and poultry companies have raked in profits that exceed their pre-pandemic levels. Casting call: Tyson Foods as Ebenezer ScroogeĪs the largest company in the US meat and poultry industry, ranking 73 on the Fortune 500 list, Tyson pulled in $43 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2021. As in Dickens’ era, our society today is undergoing rapid change and many people are being hurt by corporate greed. Given how difficult this year has been for US workers, despite the record profits enjoyed by some of the country’s biggest companies, I decided another adaptation of this classic story was in order. But what you may not know about A Christmas Carol is that Dickens was inspired to write it after learning about child labor exploitation during the Industrial Revolution in England. ![]() The story A Christmas Carol has been adapted hundreds of times since its original writing in 1843 by the Muppets, Disney characters, and most recently Jim Carrey. Charles Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge is an iconic and well-known anti-hero.
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