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Tonight: PBS Investigates the Poultry Industry

By sb admin on June 27, 2008.

Remember the excellent Charlotte Observer series on poultry workers? If you missed it the first time, it's well worth a read. After a 22-month investigation, reporters conveyed a grim picture: poultry-plant workers suffer high rates of crippling injuries, but fear losing their jobs if they complain; companies cover up the problems, and OSHA lets them off easy.

Tonight on PBS, Bill Moyers' Journal and Expose: America's Investigative Reports "go inside America's poultry industry, which employs almost a quarter million workers nationwide, to show the reality of working conditions and to investigate how official statistics showing a drop in workplace injuries may have been the result of deceptive reporting." 

DC folks can watch the show on WETA at 9pm tonight; others should check local listings.

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