Animals farmed 'Dirty meat': Shocking hygiene failings discovered in US pig and chicken plants
Shocking hygiene failings have been discovered in some of the US’s biggest meat plants, as a new analysis reveals that as many as 15% (one in seven) of the US population suffers from foodborne illnesses annually.
A joint investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) and the Guardian found that hygiene incidents are at numbers that experts described as “deeply worrying”.
US campaigners are calling once again for the closure of a legal loophole that allows meat with salmonella to be sold in the human supply chain, and also warn about the industry’s push to speed up production in the country’s meat plants. And UK campaigners warn that the UK could be flooded with “dirty meat” if a US trade deal is signed post-Brexit.
The unpublished US- government records highlight numerous specific incidents including:
https://www.theguardian.com/animals-farmed/2018/feb/21/dirty-meat-shocking-hygiene-failings-discovered-in-us-pig-and-chicken-plants
No problem Paul "ayn rand" Ryan, and his cronies think it's just fine and dandy to gut the USDA inspection, and now they have pinheads in the cabinet and a sexual predator in the white house think that just fine and dandy, what could possibly go wrong..........more mega slaughter house, dirtier food........................time to go full blown vegetarian..............
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
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The longer I go, the more I lose interest in eating flesh.
This story is helpful too. 
Oooo... Not so well! Not so well!
Who could've seen this coming? 
