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Showing posts with label Hormel. Show all posts
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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Quite A Transformation

Nov 26th, 2011

And I thought Spam sucked out of the can.

Image via MoJo
A few months ago, Ted Genoways profiled the hellish conditions of Hormel employees for Mother Jones.

It is an astounding piece which traces Hormel's evolution over the last eighty years from one of the most labor friendly industrial-food operations to one of the most dangerous and even legally questionable.

During the transformative 1970s, the company began a rapid journey towards greater exploitation of illegal labor and wage-slashing.