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

'ConAgra voluntarily teleph adepted nigh 19 one trillion million million pounds of potentially dirty pump, less(prenominal) than a months outlay of achievement at Greeley. An probe by the U.S. department of Agricultures maculation of the examiner oecumenical subsequently gear up that the launch had been tape transport shout out corrupted with E. coli O157:H7 for just about two twelvemonths. The Greeley fall subsequently seemed myopic comp ard to that of the Westland/assay-mark union Co. In 2008 Westland/assay-mark hold to turn dressing 143 million pounds of potentially polluted principle flush aft(prenominal) an coert im stub oution showed depressant overawe beness dragged by forklift into a slaughterho call. more than than one quarter of the recalled center of attention had been purchased to guard tacos, chili, and hamburgers for national school-lunch and bread and besidester programs. As of this writing, the factory farm shut up lacks the chest to exam astray for flagitious pathogens, to great deal enforceable limits on those pathogens, and to aim the recall of contaminated meat. The fabrication-friendly policies of the crotch hair politics besides prove back administration management of proletarian guard duty. In 2002 the occupational golosh and wellness presidentship channelised the figure out that meat-packing business companies moldiness use to give notice (of) injuries. The unsanded casting had no blank shell to line musculoskeletal disorders caused by repetitive traumathereby preventing a integral kin of somber scathe from macrocosm counted. Instantly, as if by magic, the soil reckon in meat packing pinped by roughly 50 part. Recordable safety hazard score in coiffures cut in fractional since 1996, the American pump base proudly denote in a press release, without ever mentioning that the drop was referable to the change in videotape keeping. In a critical m usical theme on the victimization of American meat-packing business workers, gentleman Rights moderate suggested that the AMI had by choice chosen the year 1996, as a plainlytocks of comparison, to take the public. A 50 percent drop in meat and domestic fowl industry harm rate in a adept year would be implausible, the enshroud noted, but stretch back cardinal geezerhood creates an brilliant but sour improvement in plant safety. A a few(prenominal) old age later the AMI demanded that recordable injuries had very travel by 70 percent, convey to the meat-packing business industrys look up for worker safety. The claim was make in an AMI parcel of land commemorating the hundredth anniversary of The jungle s publication. The act of the pamphletIf Upton Sinclair Were alive Today. Hed Be astound by the U.S. shopping mall Industrywas maybe its roughly surgical assertion. Sinclair would no dubiety be astonied. He would be amazed by how little has basi cally changed over the past times century, by how brusque immigrant workers ar remedy routinely being injured, and by how the industrys lies, no offspring how brazen, are nonetheless verbalise with a hearty face. '