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Why the Smithfield walkout was important

Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation writes about the walk-out of 1,000 workers at Smithfield Foods in North Carolina last week -- which, by sheer coincidence, started one day before the film version of Fast Food Nation hit movie theaters nationwide.

Eric Schlosser, author of the book on which the movie is based, wrote an excellent piece for The Nation about the modern-day "Jungle" of meat production at agribusiness giants like Smithfield last September.
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