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From: Forward
Date: 20051223
Author:Peratis, Kathleen

Peratis, Kathleen
Forward
12-23-2005
Nauseating stories of what goes on in meatpacking plants -- from those in
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" in 1906 to Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food
Nation" in 2002--have caused us to pass up, if only temporarily, the
occasional steak or hot dog. One year, I even forwent turkey on
Thanksgiving.

But while our stomachs may have been turned by these stories, we have been
ignoring the mangled lives and ever-worsening pay and benefits of the
workers who kill and dismember the animals we eat. With little meat
processing competition from abroad, we can't blame this "race to ...

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