Why are government regulators shirking their duty?
One of the most important series of newspaper reports in recent North Carolina history concluded today. “The Cruelest Cuts” is a collection of articles, photographs and videos that has been produced by a team of journalists at the Charlotte Observer. The series documents in painful detail the reality of life for the thousands of North and South Carolinians who toil in the poultry processing industry. If you haven’t been keeping up with the series (some of it has also appeared in the Raleigh News & Observer), click on the following link now: http://www.charlotte.com/poultry/. (Note: you may be asked to register – go ahead and do it – it’s fairly unobtrusive.) The series tells many poignant, maddening and stomach turning stories – several concerning the treatment of workers at the company known as House of Raeford. Here is a representative example that helps explain how the company maintains a record of having hardly any “lost-time accidents”: “Cornelia Vicente was packing chicken tender
