USDA Plan to Jack up Line Speeds at Meatpacking Plants Seems Like a Terrible Idea

USDA plan to jack up line speeds at meatpacking plants seems like a terrible idea

“This is doubling down on an already broken and polluting food system.”

Faster Slaughterhouse Line Speeds Are Increasingly a Climate Problem

Reacting to Trump administration proposals calling for higher-paced processing, critics say protections for workers, animals and food safety are not the only concerns. By Georgina Gustin Jill Mauer spent more than 30 years as a government inspector, watching over meat plants as workers slaughtered and processed animals into market-ready chops and wings.