Hour 1: How are livestock treated in slaughterhouses and how reliable is food inspection in the United States? Journalist Ted Conover worked undercover as a U.S. Department of Agriculture meat inspector and tells the story in “The Way of All Flesh: Undercover in an Industrial Slaughterhouse,” which appears in the current issue of Harper’s.
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