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On the creation line in North american packinghouses, there is certainly one cardinal rule: the string never slows. Under pressure to increase source, the supervisors of meat-processing vegetation have routinely accelerated the speed of conveyors, leading to inhumane conditions, increased crashes, and food of questionable and frequently dangerous quality. In The Chain, acclaimed journalist Ted Genoways uses the storyplot of Hormel Foods and its own most well-known product, Spam, to probe the state of the meatpacking industry. Interviewing ratings of line individuals, union market leaders, hog farmers, and local politicians and activists, Genoways discloses an industry pushed to its breaking point. On the way, he exposes alarming new fads: sick or permanently handicapped workers, abused family pets, water and soil air pollution, and mounting turmoil between small cities and immigrant labor.
