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Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 10:07 AM Oct 2017

Do you eat chicken? repukes want to super-speed the so-called "inspections"

Gag me with a hyper-efficient rubber chicken...

NBC News:
The National Chicken Council has asked the USDA to allow poultry plants to operate "at any line speed" they can safely handle.

The Obama administration had established a 140 birds-per-minute limit for most plants. But the current republican administration is open to picking up the pace and letting corporations do their "inspections" of your factory food at a much faster face.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/Obama-Decision-Reversed-Food-Safety--451100993.html



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Do you eat chicken? repukes want to super-speed the so-called "inspections" (Original Post) Achilleaze Oct 2017 OP
Failing a change in practices, check your chickens when you buy them MineralMan Oct 2017 #1
This is very bad for the workers let alone those consuming lunasun Oct 2017 #2
Also my 1st thought mercuryblues Oct 2017 #3
repetitive motion disorders are epidemic for chicken factory workers Achilleaze Oct 2017 #4
Get your hand cutoff and that will take the problem away lunasun Oct 2017 #6
Remember in this movie( not this scene below ) when rancher kris kristofferson tells the reporter lunasun Oct 2017 #5

MineralMan

(146,284 posts)
1. Failing a change in practices, check your chickens when you buy them
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 10:10 AM
Oct 2017

and cook them properly. Do not rely on overworked inspectors to do the job.

Guard yourself and your families. Do not count on others to do it.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
5. Remember in this movie( not this scene below ) when rancher kris kristofferson tells the reporter
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 11:43 AM
Oct 2017

"They will kill people for an extra nickel and that it is nothing personal at all against the people
...it's all about the extra nickel "

Could not find the rancher scene this one is mention of worker harm and inspection lapses

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