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Expose details high cost of cheap pork
2014-10-22 12:50:34| Food - Topix.net
When the recession took hold six years ago and consumers stopped eating high on the hog, Hormel Foods began ratcheting up production to meet a surge in demand for Spam, its low-cost processed pork product. Taking a leaf from Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," the century-old expose of the meatpacking industry, author Ted Genoways details the effect of the production speedup on workers at Midwest plants, the damage to water and soil, and the immigration-related conflicts that have arisen where the industry holds sway.
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