#us

Again and again workers told me that they are under tremendous pressure not to report injuries. The annual bonuses of plant foremen and supervisors are often based in part on the injury rate of their workers. Instead of crating a safer workplace, these bonus schemes encourage slaughterhouse managers to make sure that accidents and injuries go unreported. Missing fingers, broken bones, deep lacerations and amputated limbs are difficult to conceal from authorities. But the dramatic and catastrophic injuries in a slaughterhouse are greatly outnumbered by less visible, though no less debilitating, ailments: torn muscles, slipped disks, pinched nerves. ↗

— Eric Schlosser

#meat #slaughterhouse #food

I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#art student #because #being #chicago #exhibition

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#also #art #bigger #could #dad

The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#community #great #museum #rapport #whitney

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#fabric #get #holds #hope #i

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#any #figure #heroic #i #level

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen? ↗

— Peter Tosh

#i #inspiration #large #music #seen

My Oneness will stop the machine that overtakes people's minds. Do we really need new clothes, or new cars, or new TVs? Should we really ingest food made from chemicals not of this earth? Should we really give our money to people who don't need it but want it to fill the evil greed inside of their body? No, we don't, but people need me to show them how to be free." Jimmy, "The One ↗

— Teresa Lo

#capitalism #delusions #food #greed #hallucinations

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#book #books #could #disappear #escape

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#based #behavior #i #i think #just