784: All American Summer with Stacey Mei Yan Fong, Jamie Loftus, and Bricia Lopez
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
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The Impact of COVID on the Meatpacking Industry
The jungle inspired two laws around labor and regulation in meatpacking factories that still exist today. Upton Sinclair had done research by working in Chicago meat processing plants as these industrialized systems were developing. He reported on not how obviously horrible it is just for the animals, but also for the employees working there. There's been a lot of great reporting since then, but the dialos moved very little.
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