Posted on 05/30/2022 8:02:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
People looking for ethical meat are inundated with reassuring labels. Those concerned about the treatment and conditions of animals might look for grass-fed or pasture-raised. Others might buy only antibiotics-free. Some focused on the environmental and climate effects of deforestation might buy local. But a shocking federal investigation has exposed an ethical concern for which there are no convenient labels: the treatment of workers doing the industry’s dirty, demanding and dangerous work.
On May 12, the House’s select subcommittee on the coronavirus released a scathing report that outlined how several of the country’s largest meatpacking companies worked with political appointees in the Trump administration to keep their workforces on the job — even as a deadly pandemic raged through the country. As meatpacking workers were publicly touted as essential to the country, the report found, they were treated as disposable by their employers.
All told, the virus has taken a significant toll on the hundreds of thousands of women and men who kill, cut, debone and package America’s meat. But the exhaustive investigation conducted by the House subcommittee reveals that it didn’t have to be this way.
Conscientious consumers may not have an easy way to tell that their meat comes from a company that treats its workers well. But the federal government has plenty of tools to uncover and prevent abusive working conditions in the industry. Federal regulators, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in particular, should better protect meatpacking workers by enacting rigorous workplace standards, conducting more frequent investigations into factory conditions and making it easier for workers to file complaints without fear of retaliation.
Above all, the U.S. government should ensure that meatpacking companies are no longer able to maximize production and minimize labor costs at the expense of their workers’ lives.
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You will eat ground insects and LIKE IT!
Within 25 years, eating meat will be as uncool as smoking. Count on the sheep to fall in line. Even conservatives give a face at a smoker. It’s going to happen with meat eaters too.
And here it is that I thought they might be looking into how a $1.60 per lb cow becomes $4.40/lb hamburger, $6.00/lb chuck roast and $16.00/lb rib eye.
Instead it is just more Trump bashing.
Both cannot be true. A handful of dem governors killed 50-80,000 in the first few months. 259 is less than 3-4% of just those people.
Meatpacking (cattle deconstructing) has never been a pleasant job. Boring, strenuous, repetitive, potentially dangerous work performed pretty much by unskilled labor. I believe much of it is now done by “recent arrivals” to our country. They may well be ‘essential workers’ since they are involved in our food supply, but they are still easily replaced. As said above, Congress looking for another reason to bash President Trump.
Upton Sinclair was disappointed that the public’s reaction to his book, The Jungle, wasn’t his hoped for anger at the plight of the meatpackers, but rather disgust at what might be in their food.
You will eat ground insects and LIKE IT!
Bull Butter! Not this old Texas gal.....I’ll cling to my steaks and guns........;)
Meatpacking (cattle deconstructing) has never been a pleasant job. Boring, strenuous, repetitive, potentially dangerous work performed pretty much by unskilled labor. I believe much of it is now done by “recent arrivals” to our country. They may well be ‘essential workers’ since they are involved in our food supply, but they are still easily replaced.
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Seems like an industry that would be ideal for robot automation.
What's old is new.
What's new is old.
Or at LEAST to agree completely with the concept!!
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is supposed to mean WHAT?
It’s a picture from the movie Porky’s. It still shows up for me.
oh, it showed up fine. i just didn’t understand the context
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