Stories I’ve heard lately are that the meat packing industry has been steadily slipping back on safety by repeatedly lobbying for and winning the right to run plants faster and faster, which has increased injury rates.
ProPublica has some consistently high-quality reporting on meatpacking as a an industry from all kinds of perspectives - the (mis)management of them during the pandemic, the hiring of children to work there, the horrid safety conditions, etc.
I'm not sure if ProPublica has a free, public dataset on meatpacking plants but they generally have datasets that you can purchase that pertain to particular areas of reporting: Medicare and Medicaid overbilling / fraud; repeated pollution violators who keep paying fines instead of stopping polluting; etc. If anyone knows of a dataset on meatpacking plants, health and/or safety violations, etc. please do share the link to the dataset.
Since the jungle was published, more recent research has been published to show that simply having a meatpacking or butcher factory in the community causes more violent crime, sexual assault, and drug addiction.
In case you've been living under a rock for the past several decades, it's because Republicans are trying as hard as they can to roll back the clock on safety, government regulation, civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, trans rights, unions, fair working conditions, health care, birth control, abortion, and equal pay.
Profit before human or worker rights? People working in these companies in Germany are fucked up because of all the killing and handling of dead animals.
And how do you need to be to want kids working in anything before they completed their education (minus a couple easy summer jobs). Some American legislators are scum.
alistairSH|3 years ago
Why do you think rolling back any of those hard-won regulations is a good idea?
SequoiaHope|3 years ago
John Oliver covered this two years ago: https://youtu.be/IhO1FcjDMV4
lobstersammich|3 years ago
https://www.propublica.org/search?qss=meatpacking
I'm not sure if ProPublica has a free, public dataset on meatpacking plants but they generally have datasets that you can purchase that pertain to particular areas of reporting: Medicare and Medicaid overbilling / fraud; repeated pollution violators who keep paying fines instead of stopping polluting; etc. If anyone knows of a dataset on meatpacking plants, health and/or safety violations, etc. please do share the link to the dataset.
FractalHQ|3 years ago
PuppyTailWags|3 years ago
Since the jungle was published, more recent research has been published to show that simply having a meatpacking or butcher factory in the community causes more violent crime, sexual assault, and drug addiction.
BlamSthzusa|3 years ago
DonHopkins|3 years ago
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myspy|3 years ago
And how do you need to be to want kids working in anything before they completed their education (minus a couple easy summer jobs). Some American legislators are scum.