This is the grave of Oscar Mayer. Born in 1859 in Kösingen, Kingdom of Württemberg, Mayer’s father was a forester. But his father died in 1870 and his son Oscar moved in with family. He came t
This 1950 propaganda film by the American Meat Institute, a pure and beautiful example of meat industry propaganda, rides that fine line of both boring and awesome at the same. There’s no criter
Another day, another worker murdered by the meat industry. A Eufaula man was killed Tuesday afternoon in an industrial accident at the chicken processing plant in Baker Hill, according to Barbour Coun
I am simply shocked that the great people who run the meat industry would conspire to keep the immigrants they employ in poverty. Companies producing more than 90% of America’s chicken have conspire
It’s remarkable to me that basically no one cares about the lives of the people involved in producing our meat. I went into this in some detail in Out of Sight, but compared to the other issues
Good piece here that implicates everyday consumers and their desire for cheap meat in the broader immigration issue and how it helps exploit the poorest workers we have. Cheap meat is costly. At the S
This is a very interesting discussion about national standards within the global supply chain. Australia is actually shipping live cattle to Vietnam for slaughter and processing because it is cheaper
I talk all the time about horrible working conditions in the developing world. Many of those workers are producing goods for American companies, but usually through a supply chain. But American compan