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Trump ruins bacon.

Every Trump policy makes things worse.

context for the joke: upton sinclair’s the jungle is a book from 1906 about the meatpacking industry both about the working conditions and how unsanitary it was. it led to numerous laws about federal oversight on the meatpacking industry (specifically inspection) during what was known as the progressive era.

Time to stop buying any and all pork products until this is fixed.

Spread it around. PORK BOYCOTT. Bacon isn’t worth debilitating sicknesses that you’re likely to catch now that standards are going to be lowered in the industry in order to save money.

Double checked this and it’s legit. I’d be really cautious about pork from here on out y’all.

This is also likely to negatively impact the health and wellbeing of slaughterhouse workers and meatpackers and other animal ag workers, who already tend to have inadequate access to health services. It’s already a dirty job, with high rates of work-related illness and injury, and with less inspection, the workers are likely to be pushed to work even faster. Pork manufacturing also is known to draw heavily on undocumented workers for its staff, workers who are already going to have less ability to stand up for their rights.

Immigration policies that leave crops unharvested, absolutely terrible work with foreign trade agreements, removing any real quality assurance in dangerous products (thus nobody will buy the products)… is the current American administration trying to tank each of their own industries in turn?

Buy local small farm hold meat whenever possible. Home kill or private property is always more likely to be be nice meat too. But this is America/American Pork. Australian pork is still happy buy that instead

My fellow Americans:

You can do something to protect yourself AND help your Jewish and/or Muslim communities at the same time. In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been really struggling under hate crimes with the current administration in power.

FIND A KOSHER OR HALAL BUTCHER.

They will not have pork. However, other meat industries are also being deregulated, and you can get better beef and chicken through us.

I know the requirements for halal are slightly different than those for kosher, so if this crosses a Muslim’s dash I’m going to politely request, could you please share how they diverge, because I don’t want to misrepresent y’all?

Meantime, kosher requires:

—all of the following must be examined by a trained rabbi to ensure it’s being done correctly

—the animal must be raised humanely

—the animal must be disease-free

—the animal must be killed so quickly that it has no time to feel pain or fear. In Judaism this is accomplished by cutting the throat directly through both the main artery and the main nerve to the brain at the same time, and you have to train for YEARS to be able to do this and call yourself a kosher butcher.

Kosher butchers suffer from a lack of demand. You can keep your meat safe AND SUPPORT A STRUGGLING SMALL INDUSTRY.

Buy kosher and halal. Protect yourselves.

Chiming in with the Islamic perspective! 

• the animal must be permissible to be eaten (i.e. not a pig)
• depending on who you ask, either a) the name of Allah must be invoked upon killing the animal or b) the name of any other deity must not be invoked upon killing the animal
• big agree on the animal being killed quickly to avoid pain or fear. in Islam, the jugular is slit, along with the esophagus and trachea, with a non-serrated blade to ensure a quick, clean cut. the animal must not see the blade until the very last minute, and must not be decapitated. (a quick and painless kill also ensures the meat is less acidic.)
• each animal must be killed in seclusion to avoid stress on the other animals; they cannot witness the slaughter of a fellow animal.
• the animal must not already be dead. carrion is one of the forbidden foods in Islam. some facilities may use a stun gun to induce unconsciousness, but this can cause instant death and some argue that this renders the meat haraam (impermissible). other facilities may use electronarcosis to render the animal insensible.
• all the blood must be drained from the animal; again, we are forbidden from consuming blood
• the animal must not be handled (e.g. skinning; removing and cleaning organs) until after it has died

Buy from your local halal market and support Muslim businesses!!!