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Two Caravans
This is the title of the second book by Marina Lewycka. Her first was A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. I recommend both. Two Caravans is dedicated to the Morecombe Bay cockle pickers and is about migrant workers in England. It has humour and sadness; it is about ignorance, misunderstanding and exploitation. If I hadn't turned vegetarian years ago, I would stop eating chicken. Here is an extract.
Instead, she was assigned to the part of the plant where chickens are graded. They come through from the slaughterhouse on a belt, and all Marta has to do is examine the chickens, select those which are plump and undamaged, and place them on another belt--these are the ones which will be packaged and sold as whole birds. The birds which are a little bruised, or just have, say, a leg broken, or ammonia burns on their hocks, are left on the line, and they go through to another part of the plant where they are chopped into chicken pieces and then go through for packaging, where Ciocia Yola is doing her bit. The chickens which are very badly bruised and mangled go into a huge plastic tub, from where they will be taken and processed for the catering industry--pies, restaurants, chicken nuggets and school dinners.
Thought for today
Nobody notices when things go right.
Zimmerman's Law of Complaints
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