• Binthinkin
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    339 months ago

    Two major companies who have monopolized food. I am shocked.

  • Hildegarde
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    179 months ago

    Imagine a world where RICO was used to prosecute things like this instead of peaceful protesters.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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      And making bets related to worker COVID-19 infections. That’s not even mentioning use of ICE as a weapon against labor. The owners and management are comic book level of vile human beings.

  • @Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    109 months ago

    I feel like I just read a story about children working in meat processing factories. Guess we’re skipping right to The Jungle then.

    • @HoustonHenry@lemmy.world
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      39 months ago

      “Tyson Boneless Breaded Childrens Fingers” sounds like it was typed up by someone dyslexic, but could also be an interesting Halloween product (made of candy hopefully) 😆

      • @Wogi@lemmy.world
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        199 months ago

        No, noooo. They have uhh… they have fairies come in and pluck only the ripest fruit at very livable wages… please don’t look in to this too closely. Definitely don’t go in to the shanty village and start asking questions.

      • @BonfireOvDreams@lemmy.world
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        Math equation says, plant eating requires less land, which means fewer workers exploited. Also I’m pretty sure plant farmers don’t have a 400% turnover rate. It’s almost like even if the math were equal, which it isn’t, killing animals all day is bad for your mental health.

            • @bobman@unilem.org
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              09 months ago

              Pretty much how it is.

              I love veganism because it points out how hypocritical and cognitively dissonant people are. Just another fine example of the average 21st century homo sapien being an idiot while thinking they’re smart.

              I don’t expect more at this point.

          • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            09 months ago

            eating a majority of plants involves a significant less amount of human and animal suffering

            I don’t believe you have any proof of this

        • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Math equation says, plant eating requires less land, which means fewer workers exploited

          that doesn’t follow

          edit: this user never constructed a cogent argument, but, in the end, devolved into a hypocritcal spluttering rant making unfounded accusations, then announced they were blocking me. just in case you thought they could deal with skepticism.

          • @BonfireOvDreams@lemmy.world
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            Let me be way way more specific for you than should be necessary. It takes more plants to feed animals than us to feed plants ourselves directly. E.g., a culture of animal product consumption requires more land to be cultivated and maintained to feed those animals before we can even feed the animals to us. This requires more workers to be exploited in the ‘consumption’ industry.

            If you are arguing that ‘well those workers will just be exploited in another business,’ you could make that argument about any change in the workforce where labor requirements are reduced. It’s not relevant if we are focusing strictly on the food system and the amount of workers required within it. If we continue this more broadly though, it’s still not necessarily true if we don’t assume a political/socioeconomic system that puts them in that position. So in a hypothetical far far future, if we for some reason still need human labor to work fields but have outsourced enough jobs to robotics elsewhere so as to have UBI for many citizens without work, it would still require less workers to focus on a plant based diet than a meat eating diet. Frankly, by reducing the amount of workers required in any instance, you inch ever closer to UBI. So if you want to inch closer to a society that doesn’t exploit workers generally, even from that point of view, The Vegans are still approaching this closer than meat eaters.

    • @lobut@lemmy.ca
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      I do agree that we should stop eating meat. It’d be a great relief to the environment, climate and all that too.

      That being said, I remember reading about conflict avocados and was like, “is there anything I like that I can feel guilt-free about!”

  • BeautifulMind ♾️
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    69 months ago

    On the one hand, do I think they did it? 100% yes. On the other, am I surprised the law is signaling they might do something about it? Also yes.

    There have been dozens of credible reports of such violations, of children being maimed and losing limbs even, and now finally there’s a probe? Watching the law take this much time to announce it will begin to investigate what’s been in the news for years almost convinced me it didn’t want to do it at all.

  • @lntl@lemmy.ml
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    “We take the legal employment and safety of each individual working in our facilities very seriously and have strict, longstanding policies in place for Perdue associates to prevent minors from working hazardous jobs in violation of the law…”

    They say they didn’t do it. Did they or is this just another another DOL shakedown?