{"id":2055,"date":"2013-12-07T12:48:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2013-12-09T12:28:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T12:28:36","slug":"watch-out-for-pinkies-in-your-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/watch-out-for-pinkies-in-your-pork\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out for pinkies in your pork."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was pretty disgusting before, but since the further deregulation of health and safety standards the level of contamination in the US meat delivery system has become even more vile.<\/p>\n<p>BloombergBusinessweek features a report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-12-05\/food-safety-risk-as-pork-processors-face-fewer-usda-meat-inspectors\">The Truth About Pork and How America Feeds Itself<\/a>.\u00a0 Their graphic reproduced below gives a glimpse of the problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/porkchartbig.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2056\" alt=\"porkchartbig\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/porkchartbig.jpg?resize=630%2C815\" width=\"630\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/porkchartbig.jpg?w=630&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/porkchartbig.jpg?resize=231%2C300&amp;ssl=1 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report also links to a <a href=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/photos\/2013-09-19\/inside-the-bone-factory\">slide show which depicts the process in a meat packing plant<\/a>.\u00a0 The expression of the line-butchers in the picture below shows what it might be like to\u00a0 work in that system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/meatfactory2012.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2057\" alt=\"meatfactory2012\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/meatfactory2012.png?resize=722%2C488\" width=\"722\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/meatfactory2012.png?w=722&amp;ssl=1 722w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/meatfactory2012.png?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was pretty disgusting before, but since the further deregulation of health and safety standards the level of contamination in the US meat delivery system has become even more vile. BloombergBusinessweek features a report on The Truth About Pork and How America Feeds Itself.\u00a0 Their graphic reproduced below gives a glimpse of the problem. The &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/watch-out-for-pinkies-in-your-pork\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watch out for pinkies in your pork.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-x9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}