the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Sep 2, 2024
At least 9 people died of listeria bacteria infection and 57 were hospitalized after eating deli meat processed this summer at the Boar’s Head factory in Jarratt in southern Virginia.
As customers sued, the company recalled more than seven million pounds of hot dogs, sausage, bacon, and liverwurst, and then suspended operations at the plant for disinfection and retraining. It’s too little, too late.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service found 69 hygiene violations at the plant last year, including rotten chunks of meat all around, pools of rancid bloody water, mold, mildew, flies, and ants. But the agency carried out no enforcement actions against the company.
The government is very respectful of the profits of the Brunckhorst and Bischoff families which have owned Boar’s Head for over a century, racking up fortunes worth hundreds of millions of dollars from the company’s billion dollar a year revenue. For these bosses, hiring enough maintenance and cleaning workers would clip their profits.
This is capitalism, where your father’s trusted favorite sandwich just might sicken him to death one day.