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Gainesville, Georgia, a medium-sized city north of Atlanta, bills itself as the Poultry Capital Of The World. Ever since shortly after World War II, Gainesville and its environs have relied on raising chickens and processing them which, as we ve learned since the beginning of the pandemic, is an industry uniquely negligent in regards to its underpaid and largely undocumented workforce. But if the virus had stayed wherever it came from, the industry still would be a wretched occupation for all concerned, as events this week in Gainesville have demonstrated. From the