Chicken Dangerous Transformation
Chicken - The Dangerous Transformation of America 's Favorite Food
Chicken - The Dangerous Transformation of America 's Favorite Food.
"I used to eat chicken without much thought about where it came from, or how and by whom it was raised and processed. Life was much easier then." So states Steve Striffler at the beginning of his book Chicken, The Dangerous Transformation of America 's Favorite Food.
Similar thoughts are beginning to resonate in the minds of millions of people living in the developed world, who like Steve Striffler, have no particular interest in animal rights. In fact, Chicken, apparently the only recent book to deal exclusively with birds reared for the broiler industry, is just one response among many to the growing public interest in how their food is produced.
Striffler provides the reader with a fascinating account of today's broiler chicken industry. It lays bare the facts about how the highly processed, branded and elaborately packaged chicken products are produced and marketed as part of a fast food industry with an annual …show more content…
Automated lines carrying dead animals and their parts for disassembly move too fast for worker safety. .. They often receive little training .not always given the safety equipment they need. They are forced to work long overtime hours under pain of dismissal if they refuse. Meat and poultry industry employers set up the workplaces and practices that create these dangers, but they treat the resulting mayhem as a normal, natural part of the production process, not as what it is - repeated violations of international human rights
Chicken - The Dangerous Transformation of America 's Favorite Food.
"I used to eat chicken without much thought about where it came from, or how and by whom it was raised and processed. Life was much easier then." So states Steve Striffler at the beginning of his book Chicken, The Dangerous Transformation of America 's Favorite Food.
Similar thoughts are beginning to resonate in the minds of millions of people living in the developed world, who like Steve Striffler, have no particular interest in animal rights. In fact, Chicken, apparently the only recent book to deal exclusively with birds reared for the broiler industry, is just one response among many to the growing public interest in how their food is produced.
Striffler provides the reader with a fascinating account of today's broiler chicken industry. It lays bare the facts about how the highly processed, branded and elaborately packaged chicken products are produced and marketed as part of a fast food industry with an annual …show more content…
Automated lines carrying dead animals and their parts for disassembly move too fast for worker safety. .. They often receive little training .not always given the safety equipment they need. They are forced to work long overtime hours under pain of dismissal if they refuse. Meat and poultry industry employers set up the workplaces and practices that create these dangers, but they treat the resulting mayhem as a normal, natural part of the production process, not as what it is - repeated violations of international human rights