" Milo Mumgaard, who is executive director of the Nebraska Appleseed Center in Omaha, said (in the Lincoln Journal Star) the Human Rights Watch report will be "very influential at the national and international levels." It will be especially helpful, Mumgaard explained, "in arguing for national regulation of line speed" in the meatpacking slaughterhouses.

The Human Rights Watch report points out that "workers injured on the job may then face dismissal," and getting injured is not difficult to do, given the "nonstop tide of animals and birds arriving on plant kill floors and live hang area"; after the animal moving by on a rack is killed, the "carcasses hurl along evisceration and disassembly lines as workers hurriedly saw and cut them at unprecedented volume and pace." What once...

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