Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Volume 7, Number 2, July - December 2006

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(Review 3 - by Ameeta Gupta and Rohit Raghav Gupta, India, Asia)

The story of Plucked and Burned, by Sylvia Tomlinson, is set in the modern present-day America. It vividly illustrates how profit-making, big corporate houses, known as P.U.s in the story, harass and humiliate the contract poultry growers.

The story begins with the murder of a contract labourer, a young boy from Mexico, under unexplained and unsympathetic circumstances, followed by the death of a friend of Doug Blackwelder, the main character of the story.

The story is a journey of these peaceful, hardworking people to find justice for these deaths. In the process, the truth behind the poultry industry is exposed. How, with the vertical integration, small companies are swallowed by huge conglomerates, and how these conglomerates cheat workers out of their wages, violate child labor laws, and force the poultry growers to employ unethical practices in the breeding of chicken. They exploit the gullible workers into submission or else force them into poverty and despair.

The author seems to be part of these noble, honorable, hardworking rural people. She builds up on their language and habits to create a scenario that has a universal appeal. It is a well researched and well written book. An eye opener for anyone who eats chicken.

In India, where poultry is still a small scale industry and where the corporate greed has not made its entry as yet, the scenario may not be that dismal.

-Ameeta Gupta and Rohit Raghav Gupta

Ameeta Gupta, is a Post-graduate teacher for past 25 years, and has taught in multi-cultural environment too. She received her Master's degree in Social Science, M.Sc (Child Development) from Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, India. She is an avid reader and reads across literature in Enlish and in Hindi languages. She loves travelling, having been to many places in and outside India. She spent six years in the Gulf, and interacted a lot with multiracial and multicultural society. She is into trekking as well, and has accomplished several of National Himalayan Trekking Expeditions. She can be contacted at doctornaresh@vsnl.com. During her spare time, she enjoys meeting friends and traveling. (Click picture to enlarge).

Rohit Raghav Gupta is a brilliant budding doctor at Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India. He has a multi-hued personality. He is fond of music, an able Clarinet player, also a voracious reader with a discerning mind. He is a nature lover who has ventured into the deep jungles and Himalayas for his trek and travel. He was traveling in the Andamans when the earthquake and Tsunami struck. A sensitive human being with a scientific bent of mind. He can be contacted at doctornaresh@vsnl.com. During his spare time, he enjoys meeting friends and traveling. He is seen here in the Andaman Islands holding his favourite Lonely Planet book on India (Click picture to enlarge).

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Sylvia Tomlinson
P O Box 4424
Victoria Texas 77903
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