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Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 13, 2005 10:11:00 AM
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Nicole Matoushek PT MPH CSHE CEES
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JUST IN TIME FOR T-GIVING!!!!!
Ergonomic/Work injury stat:
Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rates high!
According to a recent article published in the ADVANCE for OTs: a survey conducted in the poultry industry revealed high rates of musculoskeletal injuries.
*Almost 50% of workers reported pain in hands or arms during previous 30 days.
*1 in 5 workers was unable to work for at least a day in previous year due to pain.
*Out of 200 workers, 119 (60%) reported an occupatonal illness or injury in past month, 36% had neck or back pain.
*These injury rates varied from plant to plant but the average exceed the OSHA reported rate.
Recommendations include taking steps to improve safety and reduce work injuries !!!
REF:
ADVANCE for OT Practicioners, Oct. 3, 2005
Greap opportunity to help a struggling industry to better manage their work injuries and reduce the pain of the employees!
Nicole Matoushek, MPH, PT
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 13, 2005 10:27:00 AM
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JLS_PT_OCS
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Here's another way to help...
Reduce the occupational load of these workers by "Adopting a Turkey"!
http://www.adoptaturkey.org/
It's a cool Thanksgiving thing to do!
J
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 13, 2005 10:58:00 AM
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Jason,
Just be careful of where your adopt a pet comes from: Well at least you and your pet can share supper.
"Turkish Gov't Says It's Contained Bird Flu
AP - 2 hours, 17 minutes ago
ANKARA, Turkey - The government said Thursday it had contained the bird-flu outbreak in western Turkey, and urged the public to remain calm amid panic over news that Turkish birds were infected with the virulent H5N1 virus. Agriculture Minister Mehdi Eker said authorities were on alert for any outbreak in the rest of Turkey, which lies on the path of several migratory bird species. "
:rolleyes:
Scott
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 13, 2005 12:33:00 PM
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Yogi
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Struggling industry. Struggling to keep costs down, benefits nil, pay low, productivity high, OSHA away, comp claims denied, and politicians in their pockets. And of course all aliens have to have documentation for employment.
Unless of course it's changed in the last few years.
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 13, 2005 1:30:00 PM
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Years ago, we lived a few miles down the road from where they made Mr. Turkey franks... those trucks of turkey would always drive by and in the somewhat surrounding area the turkey farms - turkey farms reek!
I always wondered how they yanked the feathers out... maybe that's why all the musculoskeletal injuries?
And, Yogi, yep it was Mexicans that were in the plants - we'd head to a lil local bar and they were the ones there and they worked between the turkey plant and the blueberry farms. We only got to know one of the Mexican guys - he was pretty funny and the only one that spoke English well.
LOL Jason. Do I dare ask what animals were put here on earth for if not to eat? LOL I could understand some arguments about not eating meat... but I grew up on a farm and the animals we raised were for eating. They were never mistreated and always had a clean barn and fresh water and grain and pasture... their life just ended maybe a bit premature?
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 13, 2005 2:09:00 PM
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SJ, The feathers are plucked out as the birds glide between sticky rubber rollers whirling around at speed. The innards are removed with a powerful vacuum, but I won,t describe that process. I had a patient many years ago who worked in meat packing plant and he was so keen to get back to work. It was his task after the cow was shot with a bolt and hung up and the innards sorted out, to empty the intestines by hand. He had been doing it for 30 years.
When I ever had a day at work when I felt a bit despondent I would think of him and know my lot was not so bad.
JIm MCGregor
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 13, 2005 3:10:00 PM
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Wow!
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 14, 2005 1:45:00 AM
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SJBird55
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Jim, I should have asked the Mexican I met for a tour!
I've watched other sorts of animals gutted out and cleaned up, but nothing like in a factory. Sounds like a bit of a messy process. Please don't tell me that the vacuum is emptied into a a bin and put into hotdogs!!!
He wanted to get back to work, huh? That could be turned into some twisted mystery/crime kind of story...
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 14, 2005 4:06:00 AM
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Yogi
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Jim, you won't descibe innards being sucked out with a vacuum...what more could you say. Besides the plants, picture catching the broilers by hand to load onto the trucks to haul to the plants.
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 14, 2005 5:15:00 AM
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SJ-
Comparing how 99% of food meat is created today to an idyllic family farm situation is the way we can all sleep at night when thinking about our food. It's too bad that such ideas of where meat comes from are just wishful thinking fairy tales. Factory farming is the way 99% of consumed meat is produced.
Thinking that meat comes from happy family farms is like thinking your T-shirt was handsewn in a thatched mud hut by your grandmother. Life's not like that anymore, and hasn't been for at almost 100 years.
All-
As anyone who has ever worked in or around a slaughterhouse can tell you, life there for the living, thinking, breathing creatures is simply hell on earth. That goes for the humans that work there also, they are a particularly poorly-treated workforce.
Turkeys and chickens have their young taken from them and their beaks cut off with a hot knife to keep them from pecking at each other. Their feathers are scalded off them with boiling water (yes, many of them are alive at this point) before they get their feathers pulled out as Jim describes. If you eat turkey or chicken, then you pay people to do that.
Have nice day. Happy "thanksgiving".
:)
J
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 14, 2005 5:49:00 AM
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So, Jas, the reason you don't eat meat is because in a way you are taking a stance that since the animals are mistreated then you aren't going to eat them?
We buy our side of beef from a local farmer. We've done it for years. I know his cattle aren't mistreated, but what I appreciate even better is that he only uses regular corn and oats when he grains them before slaughter time. The big time farmers tend to use quite a bit of antibiotics on their herd and tend to use growth hormones too. From a human view, those kinds of practices could maybe be detrimental to our health. We choose who we buy our meat from and there is a big difference in taste and texture buying from the local farmer. Granted, you've gotta fork out a chunk of change and have decent sized freezer...
To be honest, I don't really think about how the animals are killed. I've watched multiple times various animals being slaughtered and it really doesn't bother me too much. Granted though, I've never been in a slaughter house, well except for where we pick up our meat - and that place is small, clean and, believe it or not, quiet.
I guess, I'll admit that I've never really understood the vegetarian rationale. Probably growing up on a farm and using the animals for survival purposes doesn't probably help me understand the view either.
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 14, 2005 7:28:00 AM
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Well, the way the animals are treated is a big part of it. But not the only part.
You said, "To be honest, I don't really think about how the animals are killed. I've watched multiple times various animals being slaughtered and it really doesn't bother me too much."
I used to feel this way, as well. It's helpful to realize why this is.
This is because since we were all children, we have been conditioned to think that some animals are to be eaten and abused, and others are to be taken in and loved as pets. We have been desensitized to the wholesale slaughter of other living creatures for no good reason other than "they're tasty!" It is a cultural problem, and it has lack of respect for life as it's basis.
I know you like to ride horses, how would you feel about your horses going through the slaughterhouse and being tortured before being killed and eaten? Ever had a dog or cat? How about them? Why is it that our culture values different animals in different ways? Or, as the bumper sticker says, why do you eat animals you call dinner but love animals you call pets?
No one who has grown up in the past 100 years has needed an animal for "survival" purposes. There are many cultures without access to meat, and they do very well. We have meat because we like it, that's all. We produce enough grain in the US (and feed it to animals we later kill for food) to feed the entire continents of Africa and Asia. Seen those starving children on TV? There are there because as a culture, we would rather give food to animals we slaughter for steaks and wings than to give it to other humans who need it to survive. This is what Einstein was talking about when he said, "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
I am glad you don't buy factory farmed meat that often. Your desensitization to the meaningless and unnecessary deaths of thinking, feeling, breathing creatures is one of the dark sides of the culture we currently live in. It is a position that only changes with reflection. If you're willing.
There are many reasons to hate the entire poultry industry and not support it in any way. Yogi brought up some good points about it earlier. My take is just a little different.
:)
J
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 14, 2005 7:36:00 AM
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Isnt just a tad ironic that I am enjoying a chicken taco salad as I read this today? I think so....mmmmmmm
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 14, 2005 8:08:00 AM
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Jon Newman
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Do the chickens have large talons?
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 14, 2005 8:28:00 AM
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49 years ago to the week I took my new bride to Yugoslavia, to the part which is now Croatia. We had driven from northern Germany in my self converted VW bus for our holidays, away from the rigors of working a 6 hour day in the military hospital and playing squash for two hours every lunchtime. We came upon a small butcher shop in a village and the young lad explained that the meat for the day had not yet arrived. We repaired ourselves to a cafe on the opposite side of the square awaiting the arrival of the van. After a few minutes a child with a cow on tow passed our table stopping for a moment for to view the visitors who were really rare in these days. She was a rather boney animal with eyes that were , well cow like.
The child and cow walked round the back of the square and within a short period of time we heard a gun shot ring out. Seconds later the young butcher beckoned, the meat had arrived! My wife became a deathly pale colour and I didn't feel so good myself. We made a hasty getaway, at least as fast as a 35 horse power VW would go.
Jim McGregor
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 14, 2005 8:38:00 AM
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Alex Brenner PT MPT OCS
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What a depressing sad thread for a Friday. Thanks guys.
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 14, 2005 11:46:00 AM
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Jon- Awesome. Good quote.
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 14, 2005 12:16:00 PM
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Jas, my horse wouldn't be eaten - I spent way too much on him for him to even be considered a food source. He definitely isn't a nag of a horse. I threatened him to the glue factory a couple of times... he shaped up and decided to behave, so I still have him. I also don't view him too much as a pet... I use him for my pleasure, but I don't trust him. He's an animal.
From the pics I've see, most of the horses that get slaughtered are disasterous looking. Definitely not any horse I'd want to ride - all skin and bone and quite unhealthy looking. I always wondered how they got into that state... that's worse than slaughtering them, in my opinion.
You talk about starving people... well, I never have understood why we don't eat dogs and cats. So many of them are euthanized - seems wasteful. Why not eat them? They probably taste like chicken... I'm partially serious... I think the Chinese eat cats...
I don't believe I'm desensitized... for me to eat and an animal to die for it is survival. I swear meat is one of the food groups... isn't it? Did something change in nutrition that I somehow missed?
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 14, 2005 1:22:00 PM
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Atta boy Jon, I have an 11 year old son who's got that thing memorized....
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Re: Poultry Workers' Occupational Injury Rate High - October 14, 2005 1:30:00 PM
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Jason,
I left a sound byte in "Any aggressive athletes out there?" thread that you may have missed. You'll enjoy that one also.
Thanks Sean, it sounds like your son and I share the same sense of priority.
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