美国肉制工厂依旧缺乏监管，肉类安全问题十分严峻

美国肉制品行业自疫情爆发以来，一直缺乏监管；工人们在工厂内工作时始终面临着高风险。原因一：是因为工厂为了鼓励工人继续工作，决定发放牛排和现金等奖励。然而，cdc疾控中心认为这一行为会令大多数员工带病上班，无法做好疫情的防护措施，希望肉制品工厂停止提供这些奖励。但这些这些公司并没有听从，因为cdc没有权利管辖该行业，所以即使在疫情的笼罩下，是否遵守cdc的指令纯属自愿。原因二：有权监管肉类工厂的只有联邦机构劳工部下属的职业安全与健康管理局（Occupational Safety and Health Administration）。但这个部门被政府大幅裁员，其检查活动也有所缩减，导致该机构目前为止还没有发布任何一项可执行的命令。所以肉类工厂在防止工人感染新冠病毒方面的措施没有受到任何监管机构的约束和帮助，一直只能靠自己，导致肉类安全问题十分严峻。

The industry has long been functionally unregulated, the pandemic has put workers at even higher risk. Throughout the industry this spring, bonuses of steak and cash were instrumental in keeping workers on the job as the coronavirus rampaged through U.S. meatpacking plants. Yet when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told JBS and other meatpackers to stop offering incentives based on attendance, lest employees come to work sick, the companies didn’t listen. Why should they? The CDC has no legal authority over the industry, so even in the grip of the pandemic, adherence to its directives was purely voluntary. The federal agency that does have the power to regulate conditions in meat plants is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, part of the Department of Labor. But with its staff cut by the Trump administration and its inspection activity sharply curtailed, the agency hasn’t issued a single enforceable order for what meat plants should do to prevent workers from contracting Covid-19. As usual, meatpacking companies are on their own, unencumbered by regulators they’ve assiduously kept at bay.  source

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发放牛排作奖励。。当真是武德充沛