Friday, December 6, 2013

The Truth About Pork and How America Feeds Itself

The Hormel Foods (HRL) plant in Fremont, Neb., is a sprawling complex, just across the Union Pacific tracks on the southern edge of town. Every day of the week, some 1,400 workers arrive before dawn and emerge in the midafternoon, chatting briefly in the parking lot before fanning out onto the highway. It’s a routine with few surprises, but inside the plant, a grand, if largely ignored, experiment is under way, one that is testing the limits of industrial production—and worker and food safety.





from Healthy Living - The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/06/the-truth-about-pork-and-_n_4399312.html?utm_hp_ref=healthy-living&ir=Healthy+Living

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