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A real race to the bottom. The superior outcome is to break apart the large slaughterhouses and businesses, and allow smaller family owned farms and coops to r

• pixl97 4y ago
  I'm from the midwest and the large groups like IBP are some of the worst labor abusers we have in the US. For the longest time they depended on both the labor of illegal aliens and the mentally handicapped[1]. To expound on this, something I didn't realize as a kid living up there, is large amounts of the disabled where shipped to Iowa from other states like Texas. These disabled people would then be exploited for pay around a dollar a day at meat packing plants. At least in the midwest two major things are pushing for more exploitive childhood labor... First, much better treatment of the handicapped and access to abortions where defects are detectable in the womb. and Secondly, the entire Trump administrations 'build a bigger wall' had dramatically dropped border crossings at least up until the year 2019. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/09/us/the-boys-in-the-bunkhouse.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/09/us/the-boys-i...