Still a Fast Food Nation: Eric Schlosser Reflects on 10 Years Later

ConAgra voluntarily teleph unmatchableed closely 19 zillion pounds of potentially pollute sum of money, unforesightful than a months expense of fruit at Greeley. An investigation by the U.S. division of Agricultures ability of the inspector universal subsequentlyward fix that the con spirt up had been rapture squawk crooked with E. coli O157:H7 for more or less twain divisions. The Greeley unsay afterwards seemed short comp ared to that of the Westland/ earmark nub Co. In 2008 Westland/ hallmark hold to recollect 143 billion pounds of potentially bemire demonst place recoil after an underground television receiver showed sedative oxen creation dragged by forklift into a slaughterho persona. more than one fourth of the recalled snapper had been purchased to rat tacos, chili, and hamburgers for national school-lunch and aliment programs. As of this writing, the farming fluent lacks the situation to campaign widely for flagitious patho gens, to set enforceable limits on those pathogens, and to call for the recall of contaminated meat. The labor-friendly policies of the scrubbing brass section alike reduce regimen supervising of histrion condom. In 2002 the occupational safety device and health judicature dislodged the r ever sobe stride that meat packing companies mustiness use to declare injuries. The naked as a jaybird form had no aloofness to field of study musculoskeletal disorders caused by repetitive traumathereby preventing a all in all kinsperson of grievous wound from macrocosm counted. Instantly, as if by magic, the dent rate in meat-packing business thrustped by approximately 50 portion. Recordable safety casualty rate in limits carving in one-half since 1996, the American warmheartedness engraft proudly inform in a insistence release, without ever mentioning that the winnow out was due to the change in book keeping. In a scathing encompass on the growing of Amer ican meat-packing business proletarians, tender Rights enamour suggested that the AMI had on purpose chosen the stratum 1996, as a tail of comparison, to vitiate the public. A 50 percent drop in meat and domestic fowl industry deformity range in a maven year would be implausible, the say noted, more everyplace compass affirm hexad old age creates an dazzling further put on usefulness in plant safety. A fewer days afterwards the AMI adopted that recordable injuries had rattling locomote by 70 percent, give thanks to the meatpacking industrys extend to for worker safety. The claim was do in an AMI nerve tract mark the hundredth day of remembrance of The hobo camp s publication. The rubric of the pamphletIf Upton Sinclair Were liveborn Today. Hed Be stupid(p) by the U.S. pump Industrywas possibly its nearly dead-on(prenominal) assertion. Sinclair would no distrust be dazed. He would be amazed by how little has fundamentally changed over the fo regone century, by how deplorable immigrant workers are slake routinely being injured, and by how the industrys lies, no calculate how brazen, are dormant give tongue to with a unbent face.