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Mother Jones
Swollen Hands, Rampant Contagion, No Sick Days: Processing Chicken During a Pandemic
25 minutes Posted Jun 26, 2020 at 4:00 am.
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Meatpacking plants across the United States have become coronavirus hotspots—and workers at chicken plants are particularly vulnerable. Caitlin Esch, a senior producer at Marketplace, digs into the history behind chicken production in America and talks about what she’s learned over nearly a year of investigative reporting into labor conditions at poultry plants in the South. This episode of Bite is a collaboration with The Uncertain Hour, an investigative podcast from Marketplace’s Wealth and Poverty desk.