{"id":8593,"date":"2016-08-10T12:28:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T20:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/slaughterhouses-often-face-meager-safety-violations-critics-say\/"},"modified":"2016-08-10T12:28:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T20:28:38","slug":"slaughterhouses-often-face-meager-safety-violations-critics-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/slaughterhouses-often-face-meager-safety-violations-critics-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Slaughterhouses Often Face Meager Safety Violations, Critics Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/10\/489512745\/slaughterhouses-often-face-meager-safety-violations-critics-say?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\">Luke Runyon<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of people go to work each day preparing the beef, pork and poultry that ends up on our dinner tables. Their workplace is among the most hazardous in the country. Slaughterhouses \u2014 while safer than they were decades ago \u2014 can exact a steep price from workers. As it tries to enforce safety rules, the government fines the businesses for violations, but one former official calls those fines ineffective and &#8220;embarrassingly low.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/10\/489512745\/slaughterhouses-often-face-meager-safety-violations-critics-say?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Slaughterhouses Often Face Meager Safety Violations, Critics Say\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/10\/489512745\/slaughterhouses-often-face-meager-safety-violations-critics-say?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands of people go to work each day preparing the beef, pork and poultry that ends up on our dinner tables. Their workplace is among the most hazardous in the country. Slaughterhouses \u2014 while safer than they were decades ago \u2014 can exact a steep price from workers. As it tries to enforce safety rules, the government fines the businesses for violations, but one former official calls those fines ineffective and &#8220;embarrassingly low.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}