Schlosser description of the slaughterhouse was the exact same thing I saw when I toured a slaughterhouse. The assembly line of death was amazing to watch. Live animals walk in on their own and ten minutes later their on hook, dead and traveling down the line.
Schlosser interview on sharp knives (p.172) again re-enforces the tragic work environment that these workers endure to earn a living. The labor intensive job of cutting up meat at a pace that seems gruelling and beyond impossible to maintain day to day. Just think about it the next time you go to the grocery store and pick up that shrink wrapped package of meat, what had to happen before it ened up in the meat section at your grocery store.
The cleaning crew job is sofar the worst job mentioned yet in the book. Schlosser gives detailed discription of the hazard they deal with every day. Schlosser states the fatal tragedies of cleaning crews,the dismemberment,head injuries, arms severed and other permenant injuries the workers deal with and yet others replace them (p.178).
Kenny! Southpark! Kenny is a blind , loyal, don't bit the hand that feeds you type employee the company wants more of. Kenny is the typical stereo type that Schlosser has been writting about through every chapter we have read. Loyalty is in one direction, employee to the company. Companies can not see all of the faces of their employees and it makes it easier to treat people without emotion and without respect. Kenny is a prime example of this type of corporate loyalty.
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