{"id":3652,"date":"2020-10-19T12:49:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T12:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2020-10-19T12:49:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T12:49:05","slug":"how-chicken-plants-became-more-dangerous-places-to-work-than-coal-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3652","title":{"rendered":"How chicken plants became more dangerous places to work than coal mines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;because chickens and pigs (and cows and lambs and turkeys \u2026 ) are living things whose shapes and sizes vary, cutting and pulling breast meat from chickens, for example, can\u2019t be done with machines or robots. It has to be done by human beings, and to achieve the output that slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants want, it has to be done quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plants\u2019 practice of placing workers shoulder to shoulder, while doing exhausting work that leads to heavy breathing, has made them&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/5\/19\/21259000\/meat-shortage-meatpacking-plants-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">epicenters for the coronavirus outbreak<\/a>&nbsp;this year. The Trump administration has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/4\/30\/21241167\/meatpacking-workers-coronavirus-tyson-smithfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tried to keep the mostly low-income workers in these plants working<\/a>&nbsp;all the same out of fear of a \u201cmeat shortage,\u201d putting the workers at considerable risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s hardly the only risk, however, that workers in these plants face. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, workers in animal slaughter and production face\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/iif\/oshwc\/osh\/os\/summ1_00_2018.htm\" target=\"_blank\">higher rates of injury<\/a>\u00a0than coal miners or construction workers. Poultry processing in particular is the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/28820861\/\" target=\"_blank\">leading occupational cause of finger amputations<\/a>\u00a0in the US.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/21502225\/chicken-meatpacking-plant-future-perfect-podcast\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/21502225\/chicken-meatpacking-plant-future-perfect-podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;because chickens and pigs (and cows and lambs and turkeys \u2026 ) are living things whose shapes and sizes vary, cutting and pulling breast meat from chickens, for example, can\u2019t be done with machines or robots. It has to be done by human beings, and to achieve the output that slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants want, it has to be done quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The plants\u2019 practice of placing workers shoulder to shoulder, while doing exhausting work that leads to heavy breathing, has made them epicenters for the coronavirus outbreak this year. The Trump administration has tried to keep the mostly low-income workers in these plants working all the same out of fear of a \u201cmeat shortage,\u201d putting the workers at considerable risk.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s hardly the only risk, however, that workers in these plants face. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, workers in animal slaughter and production face higher rates of injury than coal miners or construction workers. Poultry processing in particular is the leading occupational cause of finger amputations in the US.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1027,1026,574],"class_list":["post-3652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-chicken","tag-safety","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3653,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions\/3653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}