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I'm from the Midwest. Poor folks ship their kids off to clean the pork plants and slaughterhouses on the night shift. Cargill and JBS were some of the worst. It
by bobmcnamara 3y ago
I'm from the Midwest. Poor folks ship their kids off to clean the pork plants and slaughterhouses on the night shift. Cargill and JBS were some of the worst. It was easy to tell in school, they were dead tired and stunk of bleach.
> The situation in the US now is very different from the dawn of the industrial age.
Different for many, and different for you, but not for all.
- busterarm 3y agoPeople act like we left this all behind hundreds of years ago but child labor didn't really end as standard practice even in densely urban environments until the Great Depression...
- red-iron-pine 3y agoI believe it. A kid died about a year ago while working in a poultry plant. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/slaughterhouse-children-documentary-rcna129405 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/slaughterhouse-children...
- bobmcnamara 3y agoEvery time its heartbreaking. I'm glad they're covering this in the news at least though.