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The Experiment Podcast: Why Workers Fell Ill at a SPAM Meatpacking Plant
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February 17, 2022
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47:42Now PlayingWho are the people who make modern-day SPAM possible? You can find clues on the streets of downtown Austin, Minnesota. On weekend nights, across the street from the SPAM Museum, a Latin dance club fills with Spanish-speaking patrons. A taco truck is parked outside the Austin Labor Center. There’s a Sudanese market and an Asian food store. A new generation of workers has flooded the town for the chance to package some of America’s most iconic meat, and for many the town is a model of the American dream. But soon a mysterious disease spreads through the slaughterhouse where SPAM is made, complicating this idyllic picture of new immigrants in the American heartland.
This episode is the third in a new threepart miniseries from The Experiment“SPAMHow the American Dream Got Canned.” Listen to Part 2
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