Meatpacking Companies Are Using This Maneuver to Avoid Addressing Workplace Safety Violations

Meatpacking Companies Are Using This Maneuver to Avoid Addressing Workplace Safety Violations

This story was originally published on Investigate Midwest. The chickens do not slow down.Workers hang featherless bodies upside down onto hooks, cut the limbs and wings off the birds, and automated machines separate viscera from meat, slicing through 144 chickens a minute.Duvan Tomas Perez’s job was to sanitize the machines that remove chicken’s bones and organs at the Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where over 100 million bi…