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The 'meat packing industry' is an industry that handles the slaughtering, processing and distribution of animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.
The industry is primarily focused on producing meat for human consumption, but it also yields a variety of by-products including hides, feathers, dried blood, and, through the process of rendering, fat such as tallow and protein meals such as meat & bone meal.
In the U.S. and some other countries the place where the meat packing is done is called a ''meat packing plant''; in New Zealand, where most of the produce is exported, it is called a ''freezing works''. An abattoir is a place where animals are slaughtered for food.
Because no two animals are the same, the meat packing industry has not been able to automate to the same extent that some other food processors have and remains very labor-intensive. The nature of the work is intolerable to many people and in many plants, fewer than one out of ten recruits remains beyond the probationary period. Workplace injuries are very common. [1]
Many meat packing plants in the developed world are unionized while those that are not are often prime targets for labor organizers. Relations between management and organized labor in meat packing plants can be strained at the best of times. Strikes and lockouts are fairly common occurrences in the meat packing industry. Because much of the work is relatively unskilled, it is possible to bring in replacement workers so long as such a workforce is available and the laws of the jurisdiction in question allow replacements to be hired. If management does attempt this route, the possibility for violence on the picket line can be great. All and all packing plants suffer from high turn-around, mainly hiring recent immigrants and having to hire 110% of the required staff for the day particularly in Alberta where abattoirs compete with oil for labor.
The United States meat packing industry held a prominent focus in the 1906 novel ''The Jungle'' by Upton Sinclair, which criticized the treatment of workers and the safety of the products themselves. A more modern exposé with a view of the current meat packing industry is ''Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal'' by Eric Schlosser.
★ Hinman, Robert B., Harris, Robert B. ''The Story of Meat''. Swift & Company, 1939.
★ Philip Danforth Armour
★ Gustavus Franklin Swift
★ Temple Grandin
★ NOW on PBS - ''Meatpacking in the U.S.: Still a Jungle Out There?''
The industry is primarily focused on producing meat for human consumption, but it also yields a variety of by-products including hides, feathers, dried blood, and, through the process of rendering, fat such as tallow and protein meals such as meat & bone meal.
In the U.S. and some other countries the place where the meat packing is done is called a ''meat packing plant''; in New Zealand, where most of the produce is exported, it is called a ''freezing works''. An abattoir is a place where animals are slaughtered for food.
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| Labor relations |
| References |
| See also |
| External links |
Labor relations
Because no two animals are the same, the meat packing industry has not been able to automate to the same extent that some other food processors have and remains very labor-intensive. The nature of the work is intolerable to many people and in many plants, fewer than one out of ten recruits remains beyond the probationary period. Workplace injuries are very common. [1]
Many meat packing plants in the developed world are unionized while those that are not are often prime targets for labor organizers. Relations between management and organized labor in meat packing plants can be strained at the best of times. Strikes and lockouts are fairly common occurrences in the meat packing industry. Because much of the work is relatively unskilled, it is possible to bring in replacement workers so long as such a workforce is available and the laws of the jurisdiction in question allow replacements to be hired. If management does attempt this route, the possibility for violence on the picket line can be great. All and all packing plants suffer from high turn-around, mainly hiring recent immigrants and having to hire 110% of the required staff for the day particularly in Alberta where abattoirs compete with oil for labor.
The United States meat packing industry held a prominent focus in the 1906 novel ''The Jungle'' by Upton Sinclair, which criticized the treatment of workers and the safety of the products themselves. A more modern exposé with a view of the current meat packing industry is ''Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal'' by Eric Schlosser.
References
★ Hinman, Robert B., Harris, Robert B. ''The Story of Meat''. Swift & Company, 1939.
See also
★ Philip Danforth Armour
★ Gustavus Franklin Swift
★ Temple Grandin
External links
★ NOW on PBS - ''Meatpacking in the U.S.: Still a Jungle Out There?''
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