It is costly for meat packing plants to waste parts of a carcass and thus, the goal is to use every part of it. Both books give accounts of the animals being shackled and led to the slaughterhouse. There, they are met by a knocker who beats them unconscious. From there, they are led to another person whose job it is to slit their throats. Iowa Beef Packers' (IBP) Palestine slaughterhouse was shut down in 1999 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for inhumane slaughter. Employees work swiftly in prod

"...an industry molded to serve their needs to provide massive amounts of uniform ground beef so that all McDonalds' hamburgers would taste the same-has proved to be an extremely efficient system for spreading disease" (p. 196)

Before they are shipped off, the pre-cooked meat may be sprayed with chemicals to disguise the age of the meat. Sinclair stated,

The employees who do the dirty work are more likely to be immigrants because they are seen as expendable by the companies. Sinclair's novel gives fictional accounts of immigrants who went to work in factories. The immigrants did not speak English, if any, and it was easy for the company to cheat them on their salary. Sinclair's characters worked hard to receive cut wages and neither did they receive pay for partial hours. They are urged to work swiftly in order to keep up with the demands of meat. These workers are unskilled but still are given the job because of their cheap pay. The combination of the pace of the work and the unskilled employees leads to a bigger probability of injury. Like the characters of The Jungle, Schlosser gives the same testimony. The immigrants are under a lot of pressure because it is easy for them to be replaced. Due to the pressure, the employees choose not to report any incidents about their injuries. In addition, they are encouraged to work despite a handicap. The speed of their production lines influence the employees to use methamphetamines to keep up with the pace. It was not an unusual occurrence for these workers to have missing limbs or develop carpal tunnel syndrome. The most that the workers would receive would be a sabbatical. Immigrants are the ideal employee for these companies. They work cheaply, are incapable of reporting illegalities and are nonessential to their business and thus, there are no qualms to lay them off.

uction lines to cut the carcasses. These are passed through inspectors to check the meat for bacterium such as tuberculosis. Finally, the meat is divided up and sent to different places for processing. In The Jungle, meat was creatively labeled to attract consumers such as Number One Grade, boneless hams, California Hams, or skinned hams. These meats were most likely contaminated. Schlosser reports that most of the meat is shipped to the fast food chains, especially McDonald's, Burger King, and Jack In the Box. There is an need to make all American meat the same.

The meat industries of today have created new ways to prepare the meat. Through a process called irradiation, the meat is zapped with x-rays or gamma rays to pre

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