Even after being processed none of the original parts simply "disappear"; Meaning: The feces, bile, and hair are probably in every other cut of meat. ... The IBP plant was documented by an FDA inspector to have oil dripping into its hams from a misplaced pipe. ... Later IBP plant released a report saying that the oil was dripped on "unfinished hams" and that IBP is considered by many to have one of the cleanest plants in the country! ... The IBP plant was documented by an FDA inspector to have oil dripping into its hams from a misplaced pipe. ... Later IBP plant released a report sayin...

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Oddly enough Jurgis finds a job rather quickly from when they arrive in Chicago and starts working at the meat packing plant. ... The meat packing plant is very dark and dangerous. ... The health risks abound inside these plants with the bosses of these plants not worrying at all about his workers. ... The bosses would make the workers work over time without pay to be able to process bad or spoiled meat while the health inspector was gone. ... Sinclair tells how dead rats, droppings, spoiled meat, human body parts, and whatever would fall in would be processed into sausage to be eaten. ...

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Not only were there dangers at their job but in every section of the plant someone could get injured by a machine or by slipping on the floor. ... Sinclair also wrote about the quality of the meat and how sometimes they would reuse scraps of meat. ... Once this book was published and these supposed truths of the meat-packing plants and the fraud that was occurring in the came to the attention of the Food and Drug Administration there were new meat-packing laws devised, and quite and uproar with everyone the United States that this could on in a factory. Even though today there are certain re...

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Outside the packing plants, newly arrived immigrants men and women desperate for jobs offered to work for even lower wages. ... The packing plants were dangerous places--sites of accidents and sources of all kinds of diseases from pneumonia and blood poisoning to deadly tuberculosis. ... To survive, workers in the meat-packing plants were forced to take part in a horrendous fraud, one that affected nearly every American. ... On a number of occasions In the process to obtain profits, the dedicated worker that contributed many years of his life and talent to building the company is discard. ... ...

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It is a very simple process and has, based on your taste, good food. ... I never considered how someone's life was changed because of a meat packing plant accident, just so I could get my burger, how runoff from a growing metropolis is ruining grazing land in Colorado, or the poor small time farmers that can't make a living because of the huge potato farming corporations taking their business. ...

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