Pain, People, and Poultry: No Pain, No Gain

Factory farming is a practice that is used to keep up and sustain the supply and demand for different types of animal meat. A poultry factory farm that will be discussed is Perdue Farms. Perdue Farms is established and operated in the United States and has a processing facility where they raise and slaughter chickens. Perdue Farms is meeting the needs of the consumers by supplying and mass producing poultry for consumption. One may view this of being a success by having a well-established, profitable business that is fulfilling their responsibilities to the consumers. While that may be true, they are not fulfilling their ethical responsibility to the animals. These animals are in close quarters where they are nested in urine and feces. There can even be instances where they will be sitting on or near deceased chickens until their cage is chosen for slaughter. Since these animals are massively produced the use of hormones and antibiotics are used to sustain life and growth. On top of the poor, dirty living conditions these animals are also giving additives that will eventually make it to the consumer. The process has an impact on those employed by the corporation and those who purchase products from them.

In the book Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser talks about the working conditions of fast food meat slaughterhouses. In the chapter “The Most Dangerous Job,” one of the workers, who despised his job, gave Schlosser an opportunity to walk through a slaughterhouse. As the author was progressed backwards through the slaughterhouse, he noticed how all the workers were sitting very close to each other with steel protective vests and knives. The workers were mainly young Latina women, who worked swiftly, accurately, while trying not to fall behind. Eric Schlosser explains how working in the slaughterhouses is the most dangerous profession – these poor working conditions and horrible treatment of employees in the plants are beyond

It is indeed shocking that the world’s most industrialized, modern, advanced and powerful country, the United States of America, does not have specific standards when it comes to providing a healthy and safe work environment for workers in the meat and poultry industry. However this should not come as a surprise to anyone as OSHA does indeed have a very sorry history in maintaining, policing

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Reporting of Injuries,Diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations of 1995 requires the reporting of work-related accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences. The Act applies to all work related activities, but not to all work related incidents. The objective of the regulations is to enable the enforcing authorities to identify where and how risks arise and to investigate serious accidents so as to prevent them from occurring in the future and thus providing a safer work environment. The enforcing authorities can then help and advise you on preventive action to reduce injury, ill health and accidental loss,the main points of our own policy that relate to this are:

The fine was $480 for each man’s death.” (Schlosser). That any supervisor who loses a worker on the job has to only pay a compensation fee of $480 is impossible to justify. One especially sad anecdote is that of Kenny Dobbins, an uneducated man, who is repeatedly injured on the job, but keeps going back until he is crippled and permanently disabled. This story speaks the truth of how meat packaging corporations take their workers for granted by using them for everything they have, than discarding them like a dirty rag. Corporations like slaughterhouses do not care about employees getting injured because they know a majority of desperate immigrants would gladly have the morally degrading job.

The reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrence Regulations 1985.managment are to report occupational injuries, serious accidents or someone has died in a workplace setting. Fire Safety – is a set of procedures

Perhaps the most common misfortune involving slaughterhouse workers is on the job accidents. Many workers, according to the article, will "[agree] not to report an injury, [so that] a supervisor will...shift him

Conditions at America’s meatpacking plants have become more dangerous in part due to the federal government lack of enforcing health and safety laws. During the

Instead of these managers looking out for their workers, they try to hide the injuries, and will give injured employees easier jobs until they are healed, if they agree to not visit the doctor. They feel the need to hide minor injuries because "a supervisor must meet production goals, keep the number of recorded injuries low, and most importantly, keep the meat flowing down the line without interruption" (Schlosser 175). The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is responsible for inspecting meatpacking plants and making sure they are operating and functioning properly. The old OSHA policy was that, there were 1,300 inspectors and over 5 million workplaces to be looked at. The employers would expect an inspection about every 80 years (Schlosser 179). Now, for an inspection to even be done, the factories injury rate must be higher than the national average. There is a slim chance of that happening because the records are kept by the companies' officials, since the have direct control on the number of injury reports. Schlosser brings up an interesting statement about OSHA's policy when he says they "did indeed reduce the number of recorded injuries in meatpacking plants. It did not, however, reduce the number of people getting hurt. It merely encouraged companies, in the words of a subsequent congressional investigation, "to understate

The impact of workplace injury is wide reaching because when hazards of physical and psychological type affect a worker, the impact is not only on the person, but also on the life, the family and of course on the future plans,as well as high

If you are injured while on the clock but due to the negligence of a third-party, a professional and experienced law team can help you receive the maximum legal compensation for your pain and suffering. The responsible party is held accountable for your experience while workers' comp covers the medical expenses and your lost wages.

Each person is unique and does their jobs in different ways but, why doesn’t the companies see it this way. The company’s main goals are to make money and time means money. Expected speeds and the space between workers play a huge factor when it comes creating injuries. Employees are expected to work at speeds like 100 chickens per minute. Speeds are getting worse, The Department of Agriculture proposed changing this speed to an even more ridiculous speed like 175 birds per minute in 2012 which may come to play in

According to the Bureau of Labor, statistics indicate that more than 4.1 million people were hurt or injured on-the-job in 2006 and 5,488 were killed in 2007 (Gomez-Mejia, Balkin, & Cardy, 2010, p. 511). Laws and regulatory requirements are currently in place to standardize and promote workplace safety. Organizations with extensive safety programs have reduced number of accidents, decreased workers’ compensation claims and lawsuits and lesser accident-related expenditures (Gomez-Mejia, et al, 2010, p. 511). This paper discusses the effects of legal, safety and regulatory requirements in

Part of the employer’s responsibility is to control potential workplace hazard and correct hazardous conditions or practices as they occur or are recognized. If an employer effectively identifies these or other red flags, he should begin and keep accurate documentation of the incident, investigate the accident adequately, and provide safety and health training annually.