Tag: meatpacking
I’ve talked plenty about the impact of COVID-19 on food workers. Already some of the worst treated workers in America, no one cared about them until those conditions could affect consumers. And
The meat industry is bound and determined to change nothing about its horrid workplace safety practices, no matter how many workers die. It will act only at the force of the state and we know that the
Not only does meatpacking not have to be COVID-19’s favorite place to spread, but the other horrible conditions that define this industry don’t have to be that way either. In fact, they we
This is the grave of Philip Armour. Born in 1832 in Stockbridge, New York, Armour went to school at Cazenovia Academy in New York until he committed the unpardonable sin of taking a ride in buggy with
In this era of American ethnic cleansing, the roundup and deportation of Latin American migrants to a near certain fate of poverty and shockingly likely fates of violence and death to make white peopl
Our federal fascist force of ethnic cleansing sure is making American great again. Jessica Bailiff looked out at her class and saw empty desks where her students were supposed to be. The physics teach
Upton Sinclair wrote his 1906 famous book to expose the horrible lives of slaughterhouse workers. But, much to his disappointment, Americans focused upon the horrible meat they were ingesting and didn