Week 9 C2 Eagle

​Chew On This!​

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C2 Eagle Week 9

Poll

How do you decide if a job is good or not? Choose the most important.

• High Salary

• Employee Benefits

• Satisfying Work

• Good Atmosphere

History of slaughterhouses in the USA

Multiple Choice

1. At cattle slaughterhouses most of the work is done by hand. (p.164)

• True

• False

​What could go wrong?

Multiple Choice

2. What are the effects of human error at a cattle slaughter house? (p.164)

• Pain for the animals

• Injured workers

• Contaminated meat

• All of the above

​Upton Sinclair

• Novelist

• Wrote "The Jungle"

• Went undercover at a meat packing factory in Chicago, USA​

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• Meant to show work conditions

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• Meant to advocate for worker rights

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• Discovered something else...​

"For it was the custom, as they found, whenever the meat was so spoiled that it could not be used for anything else, either to can it or else to chop it up into sausage."

​"There was no place for the men to wash their hands before they ate their dinner, and so they made a practice of washing them in the water that was that was to be ladled into the sausage."

​Food Safety Laws Placed

Multiple Choice

3. Upton Sinclair was glad the new food-safety laws ignored the poor meatpackign workers (p.165-166)

• True

• False

Open Ended

Discussion:

How have fast-food companies been able to change the meatpacking industry in such a short time?

​The Working Conditions

Multiple Choice

1. Look at the list of accident reports from the meat packing injuries on page 167-168. Which word is used the most?

• burned

• amputated

• injured

• killed

​https://youtu.be/NJfrmqilWc0

Slaughterhouse employee working the disassembly line

Multiple Choice

2. What is an injury meatpackers develop due to making the same knife cut 10,000 times in an eight-hour shift? (p.169)

• back problems

• shoulder problems

• wrist pain

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

3. The speed of the disassembly line is the leading cause of injuries at slaughterhouses today. (p.170)

• True

• False

What kind of worker do you think the factories hire nowadays?

Multiple Choice

5. Why don't many meatpacking workers complain about the work conditions they endure? (p.171)

• The workers don't belong to a union

• The workers are often illegal aliens

• The workers are often recent immigrants who don't know English.

• All of the above

​Illegal immigrant workers have no legal rights.

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They are not allowed to work and earn money in the country they have immigrated to.​

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The companies know this, and hire them anyway.

Why do you think that is?

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​Health Problems arising from Slaughter Houses

Multiple Choice

1. Everyday in the United States approximately 200,000 people become sick from something they ate. (p.173)

• True

• False

Open Ended

How does food make people sick?

​https://youtu.be/12JpOFiO1to

What is E. Coli?

Multiple Choice

3. The U.S. government cannot order a meatpacking company to geet rid of contaminated ground beef. (p.175)

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

4. Where does the beef for a single fast-food hamburger come from? (p.177)

• one cow ground into hamburger meat

• ten cows ground into burger meat

• a hundred cows ground into burger meat

• none of the above

Animals Reactions

Multiple Choice

1. Which is NOT a practice pigs currently endure at giant hog factories?

• Mother pigs live in crates too small to walk in or turn around.

• Piglets are taken away from their mother earlier than in the wild.

• Piglets are so cramped that they bite each others' tails off.

• Mother pigs become so stressed they bite their piglets.

Multiple Choice

2. Slaughter houses use curved ramps to prevent the cattle from seeing that they will soon be killed. (p.179)

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

3. Emily, a dairy cow, escaped from a slaughterhouse and was adopted by vegetarians. (p.180)

• True

• False

• Escaped the slaughterhouse minutes prior to be killed

• Evaded recapture for 40 days

• Adopted by Vegetarians

​Emily the Cow

​Did the people who adopted her do the right thing?

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Why would they build a statue of her?​

Project Time!

​You will be organizing a protest against the slaughterhouse practices we've discussed today.

 

Pick one of the following issues to protest about:

-Food Safety/Sanitation

-Worker Rights

-Treatment of Animals

 

Then in your groups, organize a protest by doing the following:

-Describe what is the issue and explain why you are protesting

-List what solutions you demand from the meatpacking factories

-Make a poster and a chant to use at the protest