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(Photos: Frank Johnston — The Washington Post)

Virgil Butler - "Inside Tyson's Hell:
Why I Got Out of the Chicken Slaughtering Business"

Toxic Chemicals Increase in U.S. Poultry Plants 26 April 2013
10/13/05: UPC President Karen Davis Speaks Out Against Chicken Houses in Northampton County, Virginia – Home of United Poultry Concerns

8/11/04: UPC Letter Published In Fort Worth Star-Telegram
11/12/03: Factory Farming Needs to End (by Virgil Butler)
10/14/03: UPC Letter in Baxter Bulletin
Animal Rights and Other Social Justice Movements
The Disposable Workforce: A Worker's Perspective [PDF]
Working Conditions in Delmarva Poultry Processing Plants

Washington Post - November 28,29,30 and December 1, 1999:

POULTRY'S PRICE

Graphics:
• Inside a Processing Plant
• Map of Slaughterhouse Locations

Sunday, November 28, 1999
• On Chicken's Front Line
• Eating Chicken Dust
• Photo Gallery

Monday, November 29, 1999
• Immigration Transforms a Community
• Photo Gallery

Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Workers Answer to Multiple Names
• Photo Gallery

Wednesday, December 1, 1999
• Chicken Plant Jobs Open U.S. Doors for Koreans
• Photo Gallery

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