1. By: Logan Leathem, Erica Osborne, and Olivia Winstead

2.  This chapter exposes the abuses of one of the nation’s largest industries and a company that invades all of our lives.  Evidence and arguments were successfully argued, including factual, government evidence and his own experiments.  ConAgra, a company that processes nearly all types of food today, is the focus of the chapter.

3.  Home to the nation’s largest food processing complex  Owned by ConAgra  Labor is predominantly illegal immigrants  Wages are one third lower than they were forty years ago.  The cows are corn and grain fed, not grass fed.

4.  Written by Upton Sinclair  Exposed unfair, unsafe, and unhealthy working conditions in the meat packing industry.  Provoked Theodore Roosevelt to order an investigation.  Public cared more about their meat than the conditions of the workers.

5.  Moved out west to avoid unions and get lower wages  Caused the degradation of the labor force by removing all the skill from the job  Workers became replaceable, working only six months, on average  Bribed union leaders, meat wholesalers and had ties to organized crime

6.  Most workers live below the poverty line.  Two-thirds cannot speak English and one-third are not literate in any language.  The building of meat processing centers caused drastic increases in crime.

7.  The author was very anti-meat packing corporations, but who can blame him with so many abuses?