Family of 16-year-old worker killed cleaning a machine at Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg files lawsuit.

  • trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com
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    8 months ago

    Blaming the meat industry for underage workers dying is a false equivalency and false dilemma. You are a giant piece of shit for trying to equivocate these issues.

    Meat isn’t the problem, incompetent politicians and garbage employers are the problem but you’re pretending the meat industry is the only industry engaging in child labour practices.

    I bet you eat chocolate as well, and spoiler alert, child labour AND slave labour is involved in ALL chocolate acquisition, not to mention avocado and large scale vegetable farming uses child labour daily, but I don’t hear you bitching about that, I hear you blaming “meat” and attempting to guilt anyone who consumes meat into believing they inherently support child labour when they buy it.

    Meanwhile you’re using an apple or android phone or a computer of any kind to communicate, meaning you have supported child and slave labour which acquired the raw materials to create the device you are using to bitch about this topic and misdirect people into believing your extremely perverted view of the world.

    The sheer incompetence of your presentation here is dripping in irony and is denoting an unparalleled lack of education or an unbelievable level of intellectual dishonesty.

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      8 months ago

      I’m honestly amazed you can say that in this exact thread. There is a well known link between exactly those two according to the DOL. But whatever. It’s easy to just ignore it and insult me instead.

      Edit: You added more. Look, we can do whataboutism for Chocolate and Tech, but that doesn’t change anything for this issue.

      child labour AND slave labour is involved in ALL chocolate acquisition, not to mention avocado and large scale vegetable farming uses child labour daily, but I don’t hear you bitching about that

      The thread is literally about the meat industry.

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        8 months ago

        And it’s clear you haven’t actually read the paper you’re linking given that in that very investigation overview they describe the employers as the issue and not the industry as a whole.

        Also, I like how you’ve just ignored all my notes about your own use of slave labour and child labour in your food and the device your using to continue bitching about the problem as well as misrepresenting the issues noted in the very paper you linked.

        I’m going to chalk this up to incompetence and block you, but yes “well played” you “definitely got me”.

        By the way, since it’s clear you did not read the paper:

        “The safety of young workers and significant reductions in child labor violations are top priorities for the U.S. Department of Labor,” said Principal Deputy Wage and Hour Division Administrator Jessica Looman. “Employers who choose to hire young workers have a legal responsibility to know and abide by the federal laws that govern their employment. These obligations include eliminating all exposures to hazardous occupations and prohibited equipment, and preventing young workers from suffering serious injuries or worse.”

        In case you can’t understand what is being said the TL:DR is “Bad employers paying off corrupt politicians to weaken employment restrictions for young workers and the same bad employers ignoring or reducing safety training and safety equipment”.