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A food safety inspector’s warning about chemicals and bacteria under USDA’s proposed poultry inspection “modernization”
Posted by The Pump Handle on February 19, 2013
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After nearly three decades as a USDA food safety inspector, Stan Painter tells me he now feels like “window dressing standing at the end of the line as product whizzes by.”
The Hands that Feed Us: Most food industry workers earn low or poverty-level wages
Posted by The Pump Handle on August 29, 2012 A Food Chain Worker Alliance survey of food industry workers — including agricultural and farmworkers, food processing and slaughterhouse employees, and those working in food distribution and retail — found that 86% earned low or poverty wages.