Slow Down The Line Campaign

Slow Down The Line Campaign Help end systematic exploitation in the meat industry, sign the petition.

The Slow Down The Line Campaign is part of the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights Worker's Rights Project

When the pace of chicken production outgrows the ability to manage chicken waste you get environmental degradation.
08/05/2011

When the pace of chicken production outgrows the ability to manage chicken waste you get environmental degradation.

News Room - Pew Environment Group

AbUSed: The Postville Raid screening on August 4, 7:00 PM for the Uptown (Minneapolis) Summer Film Festival.
08/03/2011

AbUSed: The Postville Raid screening on August 4, 7:00 PM for the Uptown (Minneapolis) Summer Film Festival.

Take a break for some popcorn, movies, and lively discussion! The Unitarian Universalist Association has designated Immigration as the Congregational Study/Action topic for 2010-2014.

Poultry worker, Jimmy Bynum, killed at Pilgrim's Pride plant.
07/28/2011

Poultry worker, Jimmy Bynum, killed at Pilgrim's Pride plant.

MOUNT PLEASANT — A night-shift supervisor at a northeast Texas poultry plant is dead after he became pinned under the wheels of a truck backing into a loading dock.

Meat processing political contributions.
07/25/2011

Meat processing political contributions.

The meat processing and products industry is composed of companies that produce and sell meat and poultry, as well as processed meats. It does not include ranchers and those who actually raise the livestock.

Update regarding on the job death of Tyson meats worker reported in this link. Finney county prosecutor stated Wednesday...
07/22/2011

Update regarding on the job death of Tyson meats worker reported in this link. Finney county prosecutor stated Wednesday 7/20 that they have ruled out criminal charges against coworker, calling into question employer safety. This is most likely another example of Tyson's unrelenting pressure to keep up line speeds leading to serious injury and death.

The Garden City Telegram features local and national news, sports, business, local classifieds and obituaries.

Why it’s so hard to reform the food system, explained in one chart.
07/20/2011

Why it’s so hard to reform the food system, explained in one chart.

It's very hard to make change in the food system in an environment where wages are flat and couples (read: women) are working more hours.

07/18/2011

Disease causing strain of E. coli in food illegal by FDA, its time for the USDA to hold meat producers accountable too.

Feedstuffs Foodlink offers an all-perspectives view of key issues facing the modern food production industry. Our goal is that of broadening the conversation and providing perspective.

Meat-Packing Workers unite in support of worker after attack by a supervisor http://bit.ly/qsRKlD.
07/13/2011

Meat-Packing Workers unite in support of worker after attack by a supervisor http://bit.ly/qsRKlD.

As many of us know, immigrants are often exploited in the workplace, but many of us aren’t privy to the severe impunity, even physical violence, that their

David Schwimmer intends to direct an adaptation of The Jungle. Fitting as the industry has seemingly regressed back to t...
07/11/2011

David Schwimmer intends to direct an adaptation of The Jungle. Fitting as the industry has seemingly regressed back to the conditions of 1906.

David Schwimmer of Friends fame intends to adapt Upton Sinclair's classic novel, The Jungle.

07/08/2011

OSHA cites Texas-based meat processing factory for serious and easily preventable repeat violations.

2011 - 05/26/2011 - US Department of Labor's OSHA cites Corpus Christi, Texas-based meat processing facility for serious, repeat violations

07/05/2011

172 workers hospitalized on the job because of hazardous chlorine gas in Tyson poultry plant.

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - Ten workers remained hospitalized on Wednesday after chemical exposure this week at a Tyson Foods Inc. chicken processing plant in Springdale, Arkansas.On Monday, an

07/05/2011

Tyson refuses to implement safety measures. OSHA recently charged the meat-packing plant at Lexington, NE with eight safety violations. This is just days after a meatpacking worker dies on the job in Kansas: http://bit.ly/lMHyKF.

Tyson Fined for Safety Violations-The feed mill of Tyson Foods Inc. at Nashville, Ark., has been fined a sum of $70,000 by The Occupational Safety and Health Administration ('OSHA').

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