Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry by Gail A. Eisnitz

Author:Gail A. Eisnitz [Eisnitz, Gail A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2009-07-17T04:42:00+00:00

"Streamlined Inspection didn't formally affect line speeds," said GAP's Tom Devine. "Rather, at these plants inspectors were stripped of their ability to detect conditions that would justify stopping the line." By removing the greatest obstacle to production-the inspectors' authority-USDA officials could enable the pilot plants to double and even triple their line speeds.

By 1985, when Streamlined Inspection was implemented in poultry plants nationwide, 450 fewer USDA poultry inspectors were examining a billion and a half more birds than ten years earlier. Inspectors who in the 1960s had examined eighteen birds per minute were now required to inspect up to thirty-five birds per minute-fifteen thousand a day. They were provided roughly one and a half seconds to examine each bird inside and out-theoretically inspecting both the carcass and viscera* for twelve different diseases and a host of abnormalities.

Without authority over contamination, inspectors could no longer reinspect feces-covered chickens at the end of the line. When they came across "trimmable conditions" such as lesions or broken bones, they were no longer permitted to oversee the trimming process. And while in theory poultry inspectors could still condemn diseased birds, the new regulations prevented them from ensuring that condemned birds were actually taken off the line.

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