I Was Not Very Surprised

I was not very surprised about what I found out about my research topic, which was working conditions in food factories and how the federal government can regulate them. This was mainly because I already knew about them from the Food Inc. film, since it stated that the meat companies consolidated into a few large ones and described the workers as exploitable people, such as illegal immigrants and the very poor, and from eleventh grade, since there was a section about the Jungle Book by Upton Sinclair in the textbook that explained that the conditions in the meat processors were horrible, besides the long hours, boring and repetitive tasks, and low pay that was common during the industrial revolution, that led to better meat inspection by the federal government. Despite this, I did learn some new things, such as the fact that the line speed, which is regulated by the USDA only to allow accurate meat inspections, is often too fast for the inspectors to find obvious rejects, and that the main problem that legal workers have is being able to have a bathroom break within a reason amount of time of their request, which is legally required by federal law. Even though I learned some new things, I have not really changed my eating habits, how I view life, or my view of the United States, which is that companies will do anything or nearly anything to make a profit, even if what they are doing is illegal or unethical.