YORK SUNDAY NEWS
FARM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2010
Clyde the Thanksgiving turkey recently visits with new friends on the lawn of the Alabama governor’s mansion. Clyde was
pardoned from the Thanksgiving feast. Many workers who bring us our Thanksgiving meals work for less than $13 an hour.
Turkey handlers low on food chain
N
ow that you have carved your
Thanksgiving turkey, please
pause to reflect on the workers
who brought the holiday feast to
your table.
After 21 years of grueling, hard
labor at the same Midwest turkey proc-
essing plant, one worker is today earn-
ing $12.45 an hour.
He handles as many as 30 turkeys a
minute as they speed along the proc-
essing line. Every shift, he makes 20,000
cutting motions.
He and thousands of other poultry
workers — mostly immigrants, refugees
and workers of color — feed the nation
this Thanksgiving — and every day of
the year.
Two-thirds of the meatpacking and
Align morals and meat with new rating system
Consumers will be able to see how their meat
is treated with Whole Foods’ animal welfare ratings.
By MONICA ENG
Chicago Tribune
Whole Foods Market harbors the
same hopes for its chickens that many
parents do for their kids: That they’ll get
plenty of fresh air, live at home until
they reach maturity and avoid gaining
weight so fast they can’t walk.
These are a few of the animal welfare
practices the retailer hopes to encour-
age with a new humane meat-rating
system being piloted in the South and
scheduled for national expansion early
next year. If the six-step, color-coded la-
DAVID L. OSTENDORF
poultry-processing workforce in the
United States is Latino and black.
Thousands of Somalis who fled
their war-torn African homeland help
put 45 million turkeys on Thanksgiving
tables.
In the fields and orchards, Latinos
comprise 77 percent of the labor force
that adds vegetables and fruits to the
holiday spread.
• • •
G
ot milk?
Mostly immigrant workers
tend the dairy farms.
Workers up and down the food
beling system works as planned, it could
allow American consumers at many su-
permarket chains unprecedented levels
of specificity when it comes to choosing
meat to match their principles.
Developed by the Global Animal
Partnership, a nonprofit group made of
farmers, scientists, retailers, sustainabili-
ty experts and animal welfare advocates,
the rating system aims to address grow-
ing consumer concerns over the way ani-
mals are raised for food.
Its six-step approach establishes
baseline standards for all meat sold in
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
chain deserve better pay and benefits
— and safer conditions.
Fortunately, there is a new effort
under way to secure these gains.
It’s called the Food Chain Workers
Alliance, and it is finding common
ground despite differences of race, cul-
ture, language and religion. Other
union and community-based initiatives
across the country also are focusing on
this issue.
The aim is to build a just food
system that benefits workers and con-
sumers alike.
Such a food system would make the
Thanksgiving meal easier to digest.
David L. Ostendorf is executive director
of the Chicago-based Center for New
Community.
the store, while offering producers an
opportunity to achieve higher ratings as
their animal welfare standards improve
based on the program’s benchmarks.
So, for example, the highest rating
(5+, colored green) would go to a chicken
that, among other things, had been bred,
hatched and raised on a single farm,
lived year-round on pasture covered
with at least 75 percent vegetation and
had legs that were healthy enough to
support it by the time it reached market
weight. And the lowest rating (1, colored
yellow) would reflect adherence to sev-
eral dozen baseline provisions about
feed, antibiotics and treatment, but also
a provision that the animal must not
have been caged or crowded.
Win a Holiday
Shopping Spree
HERE’S HOW:
• Fill out the entry form below.Additional entry forms can be found
in the Dec. 5 and Dec. 12 editions of the York Sunday News.
• Deposit completed form(s) in an entry box located at any of the participating
businesses listed below.
• The winner will be announced Fri., Dec. 17.
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• Foot Solutions
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• Good For You
• Manchester Hardware
• Oreck
• The Crafty Basket
• USA Optical
• Center for Cosmetic Dermatology
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Area agriculture
Expo Center in Harrisburg hosts
2010 Pennsylvania horse shows
The 2010 Pennsylvania State 4-H Horse Show was held in
October at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo
Center in Harrisburg.
York County results are listed below.
York County Competitor Results:
c Kaylyn Cole (Hanover) — seventh place in Hunter Seat
Equitation Over Fences, Junior Division, second place Hunter
Type Ponies Yearling Fillies and third place Hunter Type
Horse Two Year Old Fillies
c Susanne Deisenroth (Red Lion) — third place Hunter
Type Pony Two Year Old Fillies
c Carly Henry (York) – sixth place Hunter Seat Equitation
Over Fences, Senior Division and sixth place Hunter under
Saddle Ponies (over 13.0 hands and not over 14.2 hands)
c Brooke Keeney (Airville) — second place Stock Type
Horse Two Year Old Fillies
c Courtney Mohler (Windsor) — fourth place Hunter Hack
Ponies
c Taylor Murphy (Airville) — third place Palomino Year-
ling and Two Year Old Fillies
c Lydia Paulos (York) — first place Stock Type Horse
Yearling Geldings
c Mindy Schneider (Delta) — fourth place Five Year Old
Western Pleasure Futurity
c Danielle Shell (Charlottesville) — second place Four
Year Old English Pleasure Futurity
c Katelyn Stanley (Windsor) — second place Appaloosa
Two Year Old Fillies and second place Appaloosa Three Year
Old Geldings
c Caroline Van Pelt (Wellsville) — sixth place Clover Leaf
Barrel Race Horses
In addition to the performance and production classes, the
12th annual State 4-H Model Horse Show was recently held.
The Model Horse Show provides a means for youth to learn
and perfect the hobby of collecting and showing model horses,
while also learning about horse breeds, history, tack, equip-
ment and related horse information. The model show is an op-
portunity for youth that might not be able to own and show
live horses to participate in the show and learn more about
the horse industry.
York County Participant Results for the PA State 4-H Model
Horse Show:
c Paula Luther (York) placed in the following Senior Divi-
sion classes: fifth place Western Pleasure, seventh place West-
ern Trail, first and fourth place Do it Yourself Performance,
second place Fantasy/Other Costume, sixth place Grooming
and Showmanship, fifth place Morgan, third and seventh place
American Quarter Horse, fourth place Draft Breeds, sixth
place Other Horse Breeds, fourth place Foals and Yearlings,
sixth place Fantasy Breeds, fourth place Collector’s Class and
recipient of Master Showman Award.
c Madison Wire (East Berlin) placed in the following
Junior Division classes: first place in Arabian Costume, fifth
place in Medieval/Other Realistic Costume, sixth place in
Grooming and Showmanship, sixth place in Arabians and
third place in Thoroughbred/Standardbreds.
For additional information on 4-H horse programs in Penn-
sylvania, contact your county Penn State Cooperative Exten-
sion office, or visit the Pennsylvania 4-H Horse Program web
site at www.das.psu.edu — go to 4-H programs and horses.
Briefly noted
c First Friday Event, hosted by the Land Conservancy of
Adams County in cooperation with Gettysburg Frame Shop,
will be 4 p.m. Wednesday at Gettysburg Frame Shop, 17 Cham-
bersburg St., Gettysburg. For details, call Land Conservancy of
Adams County at 334-2828 or Gettysburg Frame Shop at
337-2796. Photos can be viewed at www.LCACnet.org.
To submit your organization’s information to this agri-
culture calendar, which is published Sundays, e-mail
smafnas@ydr.com; fax to 771-2009; or send to Area Agricul-
ture, York Daily Record, 1891 Loucks Road, York 17408.
Event information should be submitted several weeks in ad-
vance.
On Us.
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• Spanglers Home Center
• Hake Home Furnishings
• Oletowne Jewelers
• Better Hearing
• Clear Choice
• Lebo
• Strathmeyer Nursery
• Train Depot
For a list of rules, visit inyork.com/holiday