The Meat Packing Industry In America

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The Meat Packing Industry In America

• By Great Girl

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Topics that will be answered

• What were Meat Packing Plants like in the past?
• How does the Meat Packing Industry affect the
  obesity rate, peoples health, and food bourne
  illnesses.
• How do the Meat Packing Plants treat the
  animals?
• What hardships do the workers have to face?

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History of the Meat Packing Industry

• In the later half of the 19th century, most of
  the industry was localized. As Americas
  population urbanized, a great industry was born.
• A 100 billion dollar industry specifically
  created to capitalize a high turnover of cheap
  meat and migrant labor to increase profits.

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History of the Meat Packing Industry

• Following the invention of the refrigerated
  railcar in the 1860s large packing houses sprang
  up in cities such as Chicago, Omaha and Kansas.

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The Obesity Rate

• Americans consume almost a quarter of all the
  beef produced in the world.
• The Average American Consumes the meat of 7
  1,100 pound animals in his or her lifetime.

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Health Risks

• Cancers, autism and neurological disorders are
  associated with the use of pesticides.
• Meat packing plants are unsanitary from the time
  they receive the meat until they are processed.

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Food Bourne Illnesses

• School cafeteria meat has had traces of spinal
  cord (which is how mad cow disease spreads) bone
  and gristle .

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Animal Cruelty

• Animals killed for food are neglected, tortured,
  kept in filthy conditions, and often slaughtered
  in painful ways.
• Chickens and turkeys are selectively bred to grow
  so fast that many become crippled under their own
  weight.

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What the Animals are Fed

• Cattle are fed corn stalks, as well as manure
  scrapings from hogs and chickens
• Some feedlots have begun experimenting feeding
  cattle cement dust, cardboard, paper, and
  industrial oils and wastes.

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Workers Hardships

• Beef Industry workers are among the most
  exploited inhumanely treated workers in the
  United States.
• Meat packers suffer from one of the highest rates
  of injury, working conditions are often
  dehumanizing and primitive.

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What you can do to help

• You can help promote laws like Kevins Law
• You can spend extra money to get better meat.
• You can take meat out of your diet once a week or
  cut down your meat consumption
• Make a point and find out where your meat comes
  from

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My Best Sources
My best sources were Beyond Beef and Glass Walls
by Paul McCartney.
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If Slaughter Houses had glass walls then
everyone would be vegetarian