Few to no Americans work in US slaughterhouses
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According to the New York Times who studied the Smithfield slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, NC, turnover in slaughterhouse jobs is 100 percent and even convicts given the right to leave their prison cells to work on the floor quit. Think about that.
In Big Meat's search for the lowest wage Hispanic workers replaced Eastern European workers decades ago. More recently, Somalis, Sudanese and Pacific Islanders are replacing Hispanic workers. Even as the Trump administration bans Muslim immigrants, the JBS Swift plants in Greeley, CO and Grand Island, NE, Pilgrim's Pride/Gold'n Plump plants in Cold Spring, MN and Arcadia, WI and Tyson Foods' Shelbyville, TN plant are largely populated by Muslim workers.
Nor does cheap meat do anyone any favors. Low priced meat enables Americans to eat meat more frequently putting them at risk for colorectal cancer, atherosclerosis, heart disease, stroke and type 2 (adult onset) diabetes.
Here is the story of how one slaughterhouse has continued to operate despite a history of egregious worker and safety violations.
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