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Default The myth of food production "efficiency" in the "ar" debate

"Rudy Canoza" > lied in message ink.net...
> lesley the foot-rubbing whore of Cork lied:
> > "Rudy Canoza" > lied in message ink.net...
> >> lesley the foot-rubbing whore of Cork lied:

> >
> > 'The serial bully:

>
> You stupid slut.


'The serial bully:
... is constantly imposing on others a false reality
made up of distortion and fabrication ..
http://www.bullyonline.org/workbully/serial.htm

'Warning signs

It is very difficult to predict who may or may not be
a potential rapist. Considering rapists have many
personality types and use many different methods, it
might seem impossible. However, certain behavioral
characteristics have been observed in some rapists.
These should be used cautiously as "warning signs",
since non-rapists and other innocent people may also
show similar behaviours.

*Extreme emotional insensitivity and egotism.
*Habitual degradation and verbal devaluation of others.
*Tries to tell others what they are feeling and thinking
as though it is his decision and not theirs. "She said no,
but she meant yes".
*Consistently uses intimidation in language or
threatening behavior to get his way. Uses words like
"bitch" and "whore" to describe women.
*Excessive, chronic, or brooding anger.
*Becomes obsessed with the object of his romantic
affections long after his advances have been rejected.
*Extreme mood swings.
*Violent outbursts; lack of impulse control.
*Aggressive and violent.
*Under the influence of alcohol or drugs, cruel behavior
is seen.
...'
http://www.answers.com/topic/rape

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> >> Nothing in that about the meat packing industry, liar.


I do not lie. That's your domain, liar.

> > There is plenty about it in that report

>
> There is nothing.


Well, many workers are 'invisible'..

'A special investigative report in 2003 by the Omaha
World-Herald documented death, lost limbs, and other
serious injuries in Nebraska meatpacking industry plants
since 1999.73 Much of the evidence involved night shift
cleaners, most of them undocumented workers. OSHA
documents dryly recorded what happened:

-"Cleaner killed when hog-splitting saw is activated."
-"Cleaner dies when he is pulled into a conveyer and
crushed."
-"Cleaner loses legs when a worker activates the grinder
in which he is standing."
-"Cleaner loses hand when he reaches under a boning
table to hose meat from chain."
-"Hand crushed in rollers when worker tries to catch a
scrubbing pad that he dropped."

In all, the report concluded, nearly one hundred night
shift cleaning workers in the state meatpacking industry
suffered amputations and crushings of body parts in the
period (1999-2003) reviewed by the investigative team.
These severe injuries are just the tip of an iceberg of
thousands of lacerations, contusions, burns, fractures,
punctures and other forms of what the medical
profession calls traumatic injuries, distinct from the
endemic phenomenon in the industry of repetitive stress
or musculoskeletal injury.

Eric Schlosser documented a similarly gruesome string
of deaths in the mid-1990s:

At the Monfort plant in Grand Island , Nebraska, Richard
Skala was beheaded by a dehiding machine. Carlos Vincente
.. . . was pulled into the cogs of a conveyer belt at an Excel
plant in Fort Morgan, Colorado, and torn apart. Lorenzo
Marin, Sr. fell from the top of a skinning machine . . . struck
his head on the concrete floor of an IBP plant in Columbus
Junction, Iowa, and died. . . . Salvador Hernandez-Gonzalez
had his head crushed by a pork-loin processing machine at
an IBP plant in Madison, Nebraska. At a National Beef plant
in Liberal, Kansas, Homer Stull climbed into a blood
collection tank to clean it, a filthy tank thirty feet high. Stull
was overcome by hydrogen sulfide fumes. Two coworkers
climbed into the tank and tried to rescue him. All three men
died.
.....'
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2005/usa0105/4.htm

'A list of accident reports filed by the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration gives a sense of the dangers that workers
now confront in the nation's meatpacking plants. The titles of
these OSHA reports sound more like lurid tabloid headlines
than the headings of sober government documents: Employee
Severely Burned After Fuel From His Saw Is Ignited. Employee
Hospitalized for Neck Laceration From Flying Blade. Employee's
Finger Amputated in Sausage Extruder. Employee's Finger
Amputated in Chitlin Machine. Employee's Eye Injured When
Struck by Hanging Hook. Employee's Arm Amputated in Meat
Auger. Employee's Arm Amputated When Caught in Meat
Tenderizer. Employee Burned in Tallow Fire. Employee Burned
by Hot Solution in Tank. One Employee Killed, Eight Injured by
Ammonia Spill. Employee Killed When Arm Caught in Meat
Grinder. Employee Decapitated by Chain of Hide Puller Machine.
Employee Killed When Head Crushed by Conveyor. Employee
Killed When Head Crushed in Hide Fleshing Machine. Employee
Killed by Stun Gun. Caught and Killed by Gut-Cooker Machine.
.....'
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feat...atpacking.html

'Injuries in meatpacking and poultry plants happen at three
times the rate of those in other manufacturing sectors.
These are dangerous jobs because for example, workers,
with knives in hand, must work next to each other in an
assembly-line fashion, while trying to keep up with
production demands and line speeds. UFCW members
negotiate safety protections -- like safe line speeds, ability
to report injuries without retaliation, safe and adequate
equipment, establishment of safety committees that are
trained, active and have a real voice -- into their contracts
to assure a safe work environment in a dangerous industry.

Numerous reports have been clearly shown the hazards
workers face in this industry where--when left unchecked
-- companies will place more care on their meat products
than their employees.

Below are various articles on safety and health news,
alerts, or fact sheets affecting workers in the meatpacking
and poultry industries.

-On-the-Job Injury and Fatality Statistics
-Injuries and Fatalities Among Immigrant and Hispanic
Workers
-Meatpacking and Poultry Industry Conditions
-Bills In Congress
-Personal Protective Equipment
-Avian Influenza and Poultry Processing Workers
-Heat Exposure
-Townsend Skinner Alert
-Ergonomics
-Workplace Violence
-Worker Fatalities to Remember

REPORTS
A Government Accounting Office (GAO) report shows
what workers in the industries have been subjected to
for years:

-Dangerous line speeds
-An absence of injury and illness monitoring by OSHA
-Intimidation that leads to under-reporting of injuries
-Department of Agriculture inspectors without adequate
training for recognizing hazardous conditions

The Human Rights Watch has issued two reports finding
that the industries' largely immigrant workforce "contend
with conditions, vulnerabilities and abuses, which violate
human rights," including:

-Life-ending injuries
-Lack of compensation for injuries
-Discrimination against immigrant workers
-Illegal company actions to suppress workers' rights to
form unions

http://www.ufcw.org/your_industry/me...acts/index.cfm

Ball will never admit to his "participation" in death, injury,
and violation of human rights in the industry he supports.