No offense, but the premise of this post is flawed. Your body does not always heal. Your heart does not always heal, nor do your wounds or your soul.

People with chronic illness don’t get to heal. People with traumatic experiences don’t get to heal.
People with mental illness don’t get to heal.

Your wounds aren’t all repairable with band aids and Advil. Some are deep and lasting and will hurt forever.

Will things get better? Of course. Will the pain get farther away? Of course. Will you be happier when this happens? Of course. But pretending that everyone gets to heal doesn’t work. It’s diluted to think that everything can or does magically get better.

context for the joke: upton sinclair’s the jungle is a book from 1906 about the meatpacking industry both about the working conditions and how unsanitary it was. it led to numerous laws about federal oversight on the meatpacking industry (specifically inspection) during what was known as the progressive era.

Time to stop buying any and all pork products until this is fixed.

Spread it around. PORK BOYCOTT. Bacon isn’t worth debilitating sicknesses that you’re likely to catch now that standards are going to be lowered in the industry in order to save money.

Double checked this and it’s legit. I’d be really cautious about pork from here on out y’all.

This is also likely to negatively impact the health and wellbeing of slaughterhouse workers and meatpackers and other animal ag workers, who already tend to have inadequate access to health services. It’s already a dirty job, with high rates of work-related illness and injury, and with less inspection, the workers are likely to be pushed to work even faster. Pork manufacturing also is known to draw heavily on undocumented workers for its staff, workers who are already going to have less ability to stand up for their rights.

Immigration policies that leave crops unharvested, absolutely terrible work with foreign trade agreements, removing any real quality assurance in dangerous products (thus nobody will buy the products)... is the current American administration trying to tank each of their own industries in turn?

Buy local small farm hold meat whenever possible. Home kill or private property is always more likely to be be nice meat too. But this is America/American Pork. Australian pork is still happy buy that instead

My fellow Americans:

You can do something to protect yourself AND help your Jewish and/or Muslim communities at the same time. In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been really struggling under hate crimes with the current administration in power.

FIND A KOSHER OR HALAL BUTCHER.

They will not have pork. However, other meat industries are also being deregulated, and you can get better beef and chicken through us.

I know the requirements for halal are slightly different than those for kosher, so if this crosses a Muslim’s dash I’m going to politely request, could you please share how they diverge, because I don’t want to misrepresent y’all?

Meantime, kosher requires:

—all of the following must be examined by a trained rabbi to ensure it’s being done correctly

—the animal must be raised humanely

—the animal must be disease-free

—the animal must be killed so quickly that it has no time to feel pain or fear. In Judaism this is accomplished by cutting the throat directly through both the main artery and the main nerve to the brain at the same time, and you have to train for YEARS to be able to do this and call yourself a kosher butcher.

Kosher butchers suffer from a lack of demand. You can keep your meat safe AND SUPPORT A STRUGGLING SMALL INDUSTRY.

Buy kosher and halal. Protect yourselves.