Swollen Hands, Rampant Contagion, No Sick Days: Processing Chicken During a Pandemic

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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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Swollen Hands, Rampant Contagion, No Sick Days: Processing Chicken During a Pandemic is an episode from Bite by Mother Jones.

This episode is 25:26 long.

This episode was published on Jun 26, 2020.

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