tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472697.post7461625803426007417..comments2024-02-12T05:30:13.488-05:00Comments on Fanatic Cook: The Jungle, Part 4: Sausage And LardBixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263963508785739508noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472697.post-7941133671449801342011-12-23T17:21:56.064-05:002011-12-23T17:21:56.064-05:00Whuh! Well, merry Christmas, ho ho ho to you all ...Whuh! Well, merry Christmas, ho ho ho to you all too! Enjoy your "roast beast"! <br /> <br />I had known some of this in a general way, but not a lot of the specifics--utterly gross. There were similar problems in the manufacture of other foods and household items too.<br /><br />I remember the North Carolina fire and how horrified I was by it. It was no different, really, than the Triangle Shirtwaist fire so many years earlier. It's my personal opinion not only that workers need union representation, to prevent such abuses of power, but also that we need government oversight and regulation of manufacturing, farming, etc., no matter how flawed that regulation can be. Because it's clear that business, left on its own, definitely will sink to the lowest possible level. Caveat emptor.<br /><br />Ben's points about our vision of pre-War farming, as well as assembly/disassembly, are interesting. <br /><br />Really hard-hitting series of posts Bix. I would never read this book on my own, knowing something about its content. But your synopsis is very helpful.Angela and Melindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01595787896658046091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472697.post-68629187972436327382011-12-22T09:58:14.951-05:002011-12-22T09:58:14.951-05:00Also of importance is the timeline.
The Jungle se...Also of importance is the timeline.<br /><br />The Jungle seems to overturn the narrative that all our industrial food production woes started after World War II (1945). We are lead to believe that it was local pasture farming utopia before industrialization changed farming and meat production.<br /><br />To the contrary, slaughterhouse and meat-packing <i>disassembly</i> gave industrialists like Henry Ford, the concepts for factory-line <i>assembly</i>.Ben P. DaSaltnoreply@blogger.com