Poultry workers cut up chicken carcasses in a chilled room. | Leonard Ortiz/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images Last week, the US Department of Agriculture proposed a strikingly cruel policy, even for this administration: speeding up the kill lines at America’s chicken, turkey, and pig slaughterhouses. The plan will make one of the country’s most dangerous jobs — working in a meat processing plant — even more unsafe, labor advocates argue. The new draft rules would allow slaughterhouses that participate in certain inspection systems — which account for the majo...

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