Originally published by The Progressive Media Project on November 22, 2010. Before you carve into your Thanksgiving turkey, please pause to reflect on the workers who brought the holiday feast to your table. After twenty-one years of grueling, hard labor … Continued
Talking with workers in food plants, mostly where turkeys and hogs are processed, I hear many disturbing stories. Just a few months ago management at one of these plants fired a woman who had been working there for over six … Continued
The original article was published in The Progressive on Nov. 22, 2009. We should know where our turkeys come from, and who processes them for us. The turkeys piled into supermarket freezers carry their own stories. Raised primarily in massive … Continued