So it’s Trump’s fault that the United States operates an open door policy for cheap immigrant labour, reducing safety standards for workers?
Ok, then.
Michael Sweeney
4 years ago
American reader here and I agree. If we tied our healthcare payments to BMI levels, we would have a new world over here. I am not a Vegetarian, but made a huge shift to “Forks Over Knives” lifestyle, and it works. 20+ pounds vanished. Now if I could work on that red wine consumption… Work in process.
Roderick Corrie
4 years ago
Just fact checking 124kg per per person per year is 12 onzs a day per person (3/4ths of a pound). Seems a big average even for our American friends. Is some of this meat wasted or eaten by other animals. Does consumed mean actually eaten by a person or has it a wider meaning?
Unfortunately, statistics are thrown at us all the time, and in the process often misused by mistake or deliberately to prove a point. I have no idea about this 124kg, but without an explanation or source, one is left free to believe it or not (but I am intrigued to learn that Danes and New Zealanders may out-eat US citizens). I am often irritated to read that ‘one in five of us’ or something similar, only to read at the end that it is based on a tiny sample chosen with doubtful randomness or statistical selection, or on a question with a wide degree of meaning or time.
Stephen Crossley
3 years ago
An excellent article. Thank you. The argument can be extended beyond the borders of both the meat packing industry and the United States to include all key workers in all nations including our own that have prioritised supply chains over workers’ health.
We knew from the outset of the pandemic that key workers were being sacrificed in order to ensure we could still buy 35 different types of pasta in our supermarkets and our Amazon deliveries still came through. Certain groups such as London bus drivers were found to be 100 times more likely to die from Covid 19 than the average middle class person working from home.
This is not an American issue. It is not even a political issue. It is an issue of humanity. As a society we just do not care about these people. Until we admit that to ourselves there will be no pressure on governments to do anything about it.
Very insightful article, many thanks.
So it’s Trump’s fault that the United States operates an open door policy for cheap immigrant labour, reducing safety standards for workers?
Ok, then.
American reader here and I agree. If we tied our healthcare payments to BMI levels, we would have a new world over here. I am not a Vegetarian, but made a huge shift to “Forks Over Knives” lifestyle, and it works. 20+ pounds vanished. Now if I could work on that red wine consumption… Work in process.
Just fact checking 124kg per per person per year is 12 onzs a day per person (3/4ths of a pound). Seems a big average even for our American friends. Is some of this meat wasted or eaten by other animals. Does consumed mean actually eaten by a person or has it a wider meaning?
Unfortunately, statistics are thrown at us all the time, and in the process often misused by mistake or deliberately to prove a point. I have no idea about this 124kg, but without an explanation or source, one is left free to believe it or not (but I am intrigued to learn that Danes and New Zealanders may out-eat US citizens). I am often irritated to read that ‘one in five of us’ or something similar, only to read at the end that it is based on a tiny sample chosen with doubtful randomness or statistical selection, or on a question with a wide degree of meaning or time.
An excellent article. Thank you. The argument can be extended beyond the borders of both the meat packing industry and the United States to include all key workers in all nations including our own that have prioritised supply chains over workers’ health.
We knew from the outset of the pandemic that key workers were being sacrificed in order to ensure we could still buy 35 different types of pasta in our supermarkets and our Amazon deliveries still came through. Certain groups such as London bus drivers were found to be 100 times more likely to die from Covid 19 than the average middle class person working from home.
This is not an American issue. It is not even a political issue. It is an issue of humanity. As a society we just do not care about these people. Until we admit that to ourselves there will be no pressure on governments to do anything about it.