Fast Food Ino Part VI

Hey & a big wattup to all of my readers who come in here LOYALLY & really wanna see change! I really give it up to Y'ALL for checkin on us & seein how we do up in here. The Blak Smith luvs & appreciates Y'ALL & asks that ya keep comin BLAK to see what WE got to say. Hmmm.....Haiti is not even bein spoken of so things are a happenin! Aristide will go back as he ain't afraid. Earthquakes in the heartland gettin BIGGER huh? Any of my loyal readers will know that Vietnam Vet, John Wheeler was KILLED bcuz he blew the whistle on phosgene gas bein buried near an ammo depot in AR just last December. When he was KILLED, AR already had about 500 earthquakes & they gettin larger on the ritcher scale. This was also the reason why birds just started dyin spontaneously fallin outta the sky & no one knew why. He knew what that gas would do & swore that he would not let it happen again (an outbreak) at least on his watch. tripoli's native war hasn't stopped yet but funny how it started just days after ghadaffi said that what happened to mubarFART should happen in isNOTreal. WE still waitin on that & them cheeseheads in wisconsin look like they may GO IN with these so far peaceful protests. The governor there ain't flinchin an inch & with 660 days left, do what ya can where ya can when ya can to the BEST of your abilities. That's my only advice. I'll see y'all at the fast food resteraunt & I'll be DISSIN you when ya order. Stop eatin it!

Ok.....we in the high plains, one of the largest slaughterhouses in the us. 5000 cattle a day enter & leave packaged for YOUR consumption. Workers on the LINE wear 8 pounds of chain mail beneath their white lab coats & armor covers their hands, wrists, stomachs & backs. The chain mail is designed to protect workers from cuttin theirselves & from bein cut by others but still get cut, usually by themselves. WE start in the FAB or in the FABRICATING ROOM goin backwards from the end to the beginnin. From where WE lookin from right here, this looks no different than ya supermarket shelves.

Tho it's FREEZIN COLD in here, the women in here are sweatin. Movin more in, we see slabs of meat whizzin on conveyor belts. Now on to the KILL FLOOR: workers there are slicin cattle in half as if they were 2 by 4's & in they go, into a cooler. Cattle stripped of skin dangle overhead. We have moved from the cold & now it's HELLA HOT with the smell of manure EVERYWHERE! One guys job is pullin KIDNEYS outta these just killed animals. WATCH YA HEAD! Blood is EVERYWHERE pourin in vats beneath us! Further in WE go.....WE hear a pop....pop.....pop....pop. This is the POPPER & live animals are bein stunned in the head by a bolt. After the stunnin, they are chained & hoisted, hangin with their last breaths. Some are still twitchin as the life leaks slowly outta them. Then the STICKER sticks 'em in the neck, slittin the carotid artery in the process. Now on to the PRODUCTION LINE: The guy there has his FACE splattered in blood & grey matter aka meet the KNOCKER. This is the SETUP guy welcomin the cattle into the buildin. He shoots 'em in the head with a captive bolt stunner, a steel bolt knockin the animal unconcious aka a paid ASSASIN. After bein shot, a worker grabs it's hind legs, shackles it to a chain & away it goes. This in brief, is the way most of ya beef gets to ya plate.

Meatpackin is the most DANGEROUS job in the US. Every year, about 43,000 men & women suffer an injury that goes beyond 1st Aid. Bcuz of illegal immigration, alot more go unrecorded. Lacerations are most common. Cumulative traumas play a close 2nd with tendinitis & carpal tunnel syndrome leadin the way. Back problems, shoulder problems & trigger finger also figure into the equation. Dull knives make workers cut harder makin for injuries as well.

One of the reasons for so many injuries at the slaughterhouses is bcuz of the speed that the work must done in the disassembly line. The faster it goes, the more peepo get hurt. Again, y'all need to read the Jungle by Upton Sinclair. He wrote all about this in his time & in that book, they called this process, SPEEDIN UP. This unrelentin pressure has encouraged methamphetamine aka CRYSTAL METH with workers who have to keep us & SUPERVISORS were sellin it to the workers. Y'all must also know that the speed of the line at ibp's non union plants set the standard as injured workers are a drag on profit especially when there are so many new workers. Injured workers are actually encouraged to quit.

The Danger: some of the most dangerous jobs are performed by late nite cleaners not employed by the meatpackin firms but by independent contractors. Only the dedicated & DESPERATE need apply. Upon arrival, the crews have a monumental task; the place must be clean by sunrise. Water resistant clothes MUST be worn but most don't have it. The most important cleanin tool is a hi-pressure hose that shoots a mix of water & chlorine at 180 degrees. As this concoction is sprayed, a heavy fog fills the plant. Visibility is nil. Blood & guts must be cleaned. Temps soon exceed 100 degrees. Peepo are sickened by the fumes & can't see or hear much. They spray each other. They experience headaches, nausea & severe vomitin. The stench stays with ya long after ya leave, a sad reminder of the workplace.

Injuries are rife here. One nite a worker lost 2 fingers & the ambulance came for him. Everyone continued to clean & he was back 1 week later. When another lost his arm, he later folded towels. Altho official stats are not kept, the death rate here is high. Sometimes, the workers are grounded up & reduced to NOTHIN! This isn't always by gettin cut or from machinery either. This comes from the top; durin the same years when workin conditions at ameriKKKa's plants became more dangerous, the FEDS greatly reduced the enforcement of health & safety laws. The number of osha inspectors were cut by 20% in the reagan years & he first started by bustin up the air traffic contollers union. Injury logs were kept & maintained by the companies & y'all know how that go. As the injuries rose, oversight fell. Durin a 3 month period in 1985, an ibp 1st log recorded 1800 injuries & illnesses at its dakota city facility. osha had only 160, a discrepancy of more than 1000%! congressional investigations later got hold of both logs & found that the injury rates at that facility was as much as 1/3rd higher than the avg meatpackin rate. The investigation also concluded that they had failed to report "serious injuries such as fractures, concussions, major cuts, hernias some requirin hospitalization, surgery & even amputations!" Injured workers who proved uncooperative were assigned to more HAZARDOUS WORK! The nurses were even in on it, labellin injured workers as IDIOTS & JERKS, only to recant when court cases ensued. The motive was of course, financial bonuses the court labelled as the "safetey award system." Mike D Ferrel, a former ibp vp who was in charge of health & safety programs & who started in 1991 when he thought that ibp was SERIOUS about changin, found out soonafter that they were up to the same tricks. Records were falsified as routinely as one changes his clothes. The company only cared about PROFITS! He was FIRED after rightfully findin a plant in palestine tx totally unfit for business & shut it down, somethin NEVER DONE BEFORE. As the book did not give a disposition of the case, I will surmise that that case was still active at the time of publication or kept hushed. Nevertheless, the plant opened a month later & was then shut down a year later, again for bein unfit by the usda.

A right that used to be pretty easy to get but is now litigous is workers comp. I liken it to pullin teeth outta an unsedated WILD ANIMAL. In the early 90's, enormous power over workers comp claims were handed over to company doctors. This is why the big 3 meat packin companies are SELF INSURED. This keeps workers comp payments low! Some of the injuries, especially cumulative ones are hard to prove but painful & debilitatin. Tho rare, it can take up to 2 years to receive payment. This very system leaves unskilled & uneducated workers poorly compensated for injuries that will hamper them for the rest of their workin years. Hardly anyone is set for life. At that time in co, for losin an arm, one could fetch a maximum of $36,000. At that time, congress man, joel hefley of co springs tried to enact a bill forbiddin osha from conductin inspections or imposin fines. Big biz runs ameriKKKa! Damn!


Now & WOW, the story of kenny dobbins. He hadda tough childhood & left where he lived at age 13. He never learned how to read & eventually wound up in the montfort slaughterhouse in grand island nb in 1979. As he was 6'5, what he lacked in intelligence was made up by his strength. Soonafter he started, he witnessed his first accident havin his back pierced by metal teeth of a machine. The company doctor told him that it was a pulled muscle but when the pain proved unbearable, he went to another doc for a 2nd opinion. The 2nd doc said SEVERELY HERNIATED DISKS that needed IMMEDIATE SURGERY! After the surgery didn't work, kenny had to go to a PAIN CLINIC. Amid alla the stress, his marriage broke up. 14 months later, after returnin to the slaughterhouse, he was lauded in a company newsletter which said, "GIVE UP AFTER BACK SURGERY? NOT KENNY DOBBINS! KEN HAS LEARNED HOW TO HANDLE THE RIGORS OF WORKING IN A PACKING PLANT & IS TRYING TO HELP OTHERS DO THE SAME. THANKS KEN & KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK." He couldn't even read that shit but it gets better. This dude was super loyal to monfort. When they reopened another packin house in nearby greeley, kenny was like the owners, anti-union & goin as far as bein very vocal about it. While there & still on light duty from his previous injuries, his new supervisors advised him that in the new facility, his restrictions were NOT VALID. Transferred from one terrible job to another, a former supervisor there admitted that the company was tryin to get kenny to quit. Soonafter, kenny was called on a weekend as a samonella outbreak had happened & they needed the plant sanitized. Most of the sanitation crew REFUSED but here comes kenny to save the day. He worked in his street clothes with that chlorine mix spoken of earlier in this story. CHLORINE IS VERY TOXIC! He was given a paper dust mask which dissolved when he was supposed to be wearin FULL GEAR EQUIPMENT. After 8 hours, this dude fell ill, went home & when his condition worsened, was rushed to a hospital & placed inna OXYGEN TENT yo! His LUNGS were BURNED by that chlorine! His body was covered in blisters & he spent a month in the hospital.

Was kenny lucky? Only ya opinion serves in askin that question. The dude recovered & AGAIN, RETURNED to WORK at the greeley facility. Now remarried & still loyal to the company, he was reassigned azza truck driver in the slaughterhouse complex. One cold dark mornin in this DECREPIT TRUCK, kenny became disoriented while drivin, stopped the truck, opened the door to see where he was, got out & was STRUCK BY A SLOW movin TRAIN! He lived & 2 weeks later, BACK to WORK! While back at work, our mr kenny saved a fellow worker from stickin his head into a meat pulverizin machine that was still on. To honor him, he was given an award for OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CONCERN FOR FELLOW WORKERS. This was a PAPER CERTIFICATE & NOTHIN MORE yo! He then went on to break his legs, shatter an ankle & had to wear an elaborate brace. The coup de gras tho was when kenny hadda heart attack & was sent home by the company nurse with ANOTHER PULLED MUSCLE. He was summarily fired by montfort with his HEART permanently damaged & made him wait 2 years for $35,000. When they fired him, no one even notified him. He coughs up blood & his 2nd wife developed a kidney ailment & can't work either. She had to have a TRANSPLANT. kenny gets no pension & at the publishin of the book was only 45 years old. Don't let this happen to you!

You support Fast Food Nation by eatin there. There is so much more to cover & Part VII may just make you stop eatin this crap. Join US when WE next go in at Fast Food Info comin at ya like a bullet atta target. WE got ya BLAK so don't FRONT! Peace Peepo!


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