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The Tribune`s series on safety in meat processing is a compelling look into a world the public seldom sees.
It was 50 years ago, but I still remember a tour of the old Chicago Stock Yards, the slitting of pig throats while the animals hung alive by one foot;
the crushing blows to the skulls of live steers with sledge hammers. No technique was omitted which did not make all this indeed ”The Jungle,” as immortalized by Upton Sinclair.
As The Tribune reveals, the new Jungle has to do with frozen meat cuts, but blood is still the price-try 10,000 cuts a day by a conscientious worker.
Here`s to OSHA for refusing to go along with the meat moguls` baloney.
