Meat processing

2.0 Introduction This report has been commissioned by Australian meat processing company “Aussie Meat Processing” to analyze and evaluate the Internet’s ability to generate profits through international marketing activities in South Korea. Firstly, the meat industry in South Korea will be examined addressing current consumer trends. More specifically, how Internet influenced international consumer behavior in South Korea and the implications of this on exporting beef from Australia to a business

daily slaughter capacity (determined by head per day) are: Smithfield (115,000), JBS (89,800), Tyson Foods (IBP) (80,950), Hormel (36,800), and Triumph Foods (21,500) (U.S. Packing 2016). Pork processing can involve the before mentioned slaughter houses along with a firm that will further process the carcass meat. Many of these large packing plants also double as companies that will further utilize the pork into a processed pork product. For example Tyson Foods owns the brand name processed foods such

progressive reform movement soon grew out of the need to address the health and welfare of the American worker. In 1905, Upton Sinclair (1878–1968), a young socialist journalist and novelist, received a $500 advance to write a novel about abuses in the meat processing industry and spent seven weeks investigating the subject in Chicago. His novel, The Jungle (1906), shows the unsanitary and dangerous conditions in the plants, was an immediate best-seller and incited President Roosevelt to

the author Upton Sinclair uses ethos,pathos and imagery to expose the meat packing industry of its disgusting ways to the public’s eye. The first pathos the rhetorical device responsible for getting people into their feeling more than in their thoughtful minds. For example Mr. Sinclair takes full advantage of this when explains the meat packing plant products are not what you think they are. In this quote “there would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where workers

He recounts the agony of dozens of people who have died of infected meat, describes the sufferings of the illegal slaughterhouse workers, and details the sad fate of the independent business owners. In this effort, he counts the successes of the people against the corporations. Schlosser aims his book at the average consumer;

Slaughter City defines the hardships of industrial workers in an abstracted reality. The Characters are representative of industrial workers throughout time expect the Sausage Man. The Sausage Man is the embodiment of universal evil, greed, gluttony, pride and lust. The Seamstress symbolizes the innocent victims; Cod the helpless bystanders controlled by evil; Maggot, Roach, and Brandon the abused workers; Tuck, the ideal administration and Baquin, the actual, self-serving administration. They are

can be seen in both “The Jungle” to the “Fast Food Nation”. Through both the works of Upton Sinclair's “The Jungle”, written in 1906, and Eric Schlosser’s “Fast Food Nation”,, published in 2001 it is clear that the behind-the-scenes picture of the meat-packing industry, not much has changed in the past hundred years. COMPARE Although both of these exposés were written almost a century apart, their similarities are frightening. One of the things that “The Jungle” and “Fast Food Nation” they both

and social groups who had hidden atrocities. These writers held more power than what they thought as their works are still recognized today. Upton Sinclair is most known for his criticisms of the meat packaging industry in his book The Jungle. For close to 2 months, Sinclair worked in a Chicago meat package plant in order to expose the hidden truths of the industry. This was one of the first examples of a journalist immersing themselves in the material coved in

light or ventilation, and men carrying 100 pound meat and breaking their backs. The company scammed the laborers by making the assembly line faster to get more work out of the men for the same pay. Furthermore, sanitation of the workplace was an immense issue. Many men had tuberculosis and coughed blood, onto the floor, and with no area to urinate, many did it in a corner and did not wash their hands after doing so. With all that being said, the meat was dumped into the same floor where all of this

In America, meat is an important part of our culture’s food. You’d think that we would protect it, make sure it’s safe to eat and all. In the 1800’s, this wasn’t a main concern regarding the meat in slaughterhouses and such, as exposed by the great muckraker Upton Sinclair. Born on September 20th, 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland, Upton Sinclair led an interesting life. As a child he grew up in poverty under the parenting of an alcoholic father and very conservative mother. He attended and graduated