KCRA & the Safeway Meat Scandal (8)
The confirmation from King that that the meat labeling charges were tied to the lettuce dispute was provocative, but there were limits to what could properly be inferred from the link. The fact that accusations have been made in an attempt to "get" somebody does not automatically render them spurious. If you want to nail somebody, there are obvious reasons for making sure you do it right--and in a way that will stand up in court.
Both the viewers and I would need more information about the specific meat charges and their basis to form any reasonable assessment of their merit.
The United Farmworkers' spokesman couldn't help me much with those specifics. I would need to get in touch with Interfaith, the organization that had done all the actual digging and accusing. The UFWOC spokesman told me where I could locate a key San Francisco Bay Area priest whose name I recognized as a founder of Interfaith.
I called the priest's office at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. The secretary apologized that he was out of town--at a religious convention in Detroit, she said. She gave me the name of the hotel where he was staying, plus the name of another man in San Francisco who might be able to help.
