You would certainly expect that these places should have strict hygiene standards, but investigative journalists have found time and time again that slaughterho

You would certainly expect that these places should have strict hygiene standards, but investigative journalists have found time and time again that slaughterhouses in the USA are filthy places where human and animal disease alike are concentrated by the time pressure to go faster, to make meat cheaper and cheaper. Fast Food Nation (https://www.litcharts.com/lit/fast-food-nation/chapter-9-what-s-in-the-meat https://www.litcharts.com/lit/fast-food-nation/chapter-9-wha...) profiled this in the early aughts. Countless other investigative journalists have tried, even against the "ag-gag" laws we have in farming states, to uncover even more in recent times: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/02/meat-plant-workers-us-coronavirus-war https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/02/meat-plant-wor... https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2010/05/14/probing_the_link_between_slaughterhouses_and_violent_crime.html https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2010/05/14/probing_the_... The consolidation of the meat industry has given them extraordinary lobbying power. They now have broad authority to regulate themselves: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administrations-new-hog-slaughterhouse-rules-may-risk-more-contamination-food-safety-1459922?fbclid=IwAR13lxfSA9I_9WtJWlaJWfCoOBPTyKTpzxv_fpi6Z1_sIt3jWxxsyKHB5BQ https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administrations-new-hog-slaug...