Tyson Kills the Mulberry Fork

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Abstract

On 6 June 2019, a Tyson Farms, Inc. chicken rendering plant in Hanceville, Alabama, spilled approximately 220,000 gallons (around 832,900 liters) of anaerobic wastewater into the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River, killing a conservatively estimated two hundred thousand fish and flooding the river with dangerous bacteria. This article follows that spill, tracing it within the long disaster unfolding in Alabama between extractive industry and environmental welfare.

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Nicholas Tyler Reich, Vanderbilt University, USA

Nicholas Tyler Reich (he/they) is a doctoral student at Vanderbilt University’s Department of English, where he studies queer and trans* ecologies, literatures of the US Deep South and Appalachia, energy ontologies, film, and digital media. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, the upcoming edited collection The Anthropocene: Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities, and elsewhere.

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2021-04-23

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2021

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Spring

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