Word: meat
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Such a lifestyle is an invitation to RSI. Repetitive strain injury has long been associated with blue-collar jobs that required excessive force, awkward posture and repetitive actions -- like driving the same kind of screw hour after hour in an assembly line or slicing carcasses all day in a meat- processing plant. For the delicate muscles and tendons in the fingers and wrists, rapidly pushing buttons thousands of times an hour can be just as stressful. "When you're working eight hours a day at the same task, you're essentially an athlete," says Dr. Emil Pascarelli, director of ambulatory...
America's carnivores should have no beef with meat prices. According to the National Cattlemen's Association survey of supermarkets in 19 cities, the average price per lb. of six cuts of beef was just $3.12 this month, the lowest level since July. Because the beef supply remains high and wholesale prices are down, many grocers are able to feature meat at significant discounts. Cow-nnoisseurs take note: the six cuts included in the survey are regular and lean ground beef, boneless round steak, boneless top sirloin, T-bone steak and boneless chuck roll roast...
...industry has a good reason for resisting changes in this cold bath, known to critics as "fecal soup": the process allows chickens to become waterlogged. Regulations allow as much as 8% of a chicken's weight to be water, which consumers pay for as if it were meat. "When it comes to chicken," says Jack Leighty, a retired director of the USDA's pathology division, "water is big business." So big, in fact, that Tyson alone would lose about $40 million in annual gross profits if the 8% rule were repealed. One study has shown that cross-contamination...
Several days later, Wilson Horne, then the USDA's chief of meat and poultry inspection, told his troops that a zero-tolerance program similar to the one already announced for beef would shortly follow for poultry. "The Secretary's chief of staff went crazy," says Horne. "He ordered everything out of the computer. He was emphatic that we were not to proceed or talk about poultry % matters. We thought there was a Tyson connection." The company denies any involvement...
...Gady had meat on his mind. The Clinton Administration had visions of 300,000 new jobs at home by 2004. But instead, members of Congress did what they have been doing a lot lately: they obstructed for the sake of obstructing. For months, House Republican whip Newt Gingrich had assured White House officials in private that he would vote for GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which, according to the White House, could mean the equivalent of a $750 billion worldwide tax cut over the next 10 years through the reduction in the prices of imported goods. Sure...