The workers do not touch the meat with their bare hands; they have on one hand a steel hook and the other a knife. In the very cold room that the meat is kept hung cattle’s on chains from their hind legs is also where the workers stay to cut up the meat so it doesn’t rotten they most sustain the cold. In my opinion both articles are based in different time zones meaning that The Most Dangerous Job is in more of the 2oth century while The Jungle is more of the 1940. Now when we look back on the olden time of how meat was processed we have come to realize the mistakes and with the advancement of technology we have gained a much better understanding on how meatpacking works and how we showed preserve the meat better to not cause harm to the people and to the manufactures. In the Jungle they had very few explores who they traded meat with and did not have the technology created yet to help them take better care of their merchandise and the only way they could still approach buys into their product was through schemes and manipulation of the product. They would change the spoilt meat odor by injecting borax and glycerin into the meat to change the color and smell which is a cheating way to serves the …show more content…
It is a common injury suffered by meatpackers who stab themselves or their coworkers. In The Most Dangerous Job it talks about much risk of a person being traumatized by the actions of how meatpacking is composed and with this job there is always muscle problems and danger as well. Today the procedure on how meatpacking in a slaughterhouse has increased with the technology advancement. In the Most Dangerous Job it states that the workers’ wages are nothing more than a few pennies a pound, a fast pace means higher profits. Some of The meat packing is performed by illegal immigrates, they are paid one-third lower than the regular amount. Working in a slaughterhouse is something that requires attention to small details and instructions or one could easily end up hurting themselves. Both articles consist of how meat is packaged in different ways, with the many differences still has similarities. Like the fact that the meat that is made is distributed to the public, if the product is bad then the manufactures are affecting the people and spreading dieses and poor health which no one would want both been bad for consumers and produces. The meatpacking industry would lose costumes and money and they would go