Labor & Economic News Blog
Thursday, May 25, 2006
In Iowa Meat Plant, Kosher 'Jungle' Breeds Fear, Injury, Short Pay
In Iowa Meat Plant, Kosher 'Jungle' Breeds Fear, Injury, Short PaySource: Forward.com
The animals slaughtered here at the nation's largest kosher meat packing plant have been the object of nationwide sympathy since an animal rights group released videos from the kill floor in December 2004. But a tour of the mobile homes and cramped apartments just outside town, where AgriProcessors' immigrant workers live, quickly shifts a visitor's attention to a more striking concern: the impoverished humans who do the factory's dirty work.
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