But knives somehow manage to get past it.” There is a large danger to be around knives working so fast all the time. Another thing that affects working conditions is the pace. Schlosser describes it as this: “Twenty years ago, new plants in the High Plains slaughtered about 175 cattle an hour. Today some plants slaughter up to 400 cattle an hour.” Later it says “As the pace increases, so does the risk of accidental cuts.” The working conditions in some Americans' eyes didn’t seem to change as people still ran the risk of being injured often and they had to work as fast as possible to not fall behind. On top of this, the food safety is not great. There are diseases spreading through them and people are getting sick from eating them. It says this in Fast Food Nation “Every day in the United States roughly 200,000 people are sickened by a foodborne disease, 900 are hospitalized and fourteen die.” The illness the food was spreading was running rampant around America and caused serious
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