We all know the real reason.
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To be fair they are being pushed several notches past where we are now on the totalitarian scale. Like they are facing 10x what we are (unless youâre brown of course).
Maybe I should have specified serious applicants.
By 10 a.m., a crowd of dozens was on hand, and steady stream of people came and went. Most were black and spoke with accents from the American South. A few appeared white or Hispanic.
This is a fantastic article. I posted it a few times on 2p2.
One spring night in 1989, a Case Farms human-resources manager named Norman Beecher got behind the wheel of a large passenger van and headed south. He had got a tip about a Catholic church in Florida that was helping refugees from the Guatemalan civil war. Thousands of Mayans had been living in Indiantown after fleeing a campaign of violence carried out by the Guatemalan military. More than two hundred thousand people, most of them Mayan, were killed or forcibly disappeared in the conflict. A report commissioned by the United Nations described instances of soldiers beating children âagainst walls or throwing them alive into pits,â and covering people âin petrol and burning them alive.â In 1981, in a village of AguacatĂĄn, where many Case Farms workers come from, soldiers rounded up and shot twenty-two men. They then split their skulls and ate their brains, dumping the bodies into a ravine.
Beecher, who died in 2014, told Fink. âMexicans will go back home at Christmastime. Youâre going to lose them for six weeks. And in the poultry business you canât afford that. You just canât do it. But Guatemalans canât go back home. Theyâre here as political refugees. If they go back home, they get shot.â Shelton approved hiring the immigrants, Beecher said, and when the plant was fully staffed and production had doubled âhe was tickled to death.
The machine âliterally ripped off his left leg,â medical reports said, leaving it hanging by a frayed ligament and a five-inch flap of skin. Osiel was rushed to Mercy Medical Center, where surgeons amputated his lower leg.
Back at the plant, Osielâs supervisors hurriedly demanded workersâ identification papers. Technically, Osiel worked for Case Farmsâ closely affiliated sanitation contractor, and suddenly the bosses seemed to care about immigration status. Within days, Osiel and several othersâall underage and undocumentedâwere fired.
read it all though if you havenât
Narrator: they voted for Trump
Did any owners get anything meaningful done to them in those raids. Lock them up or send them back where they came from?
Thanks, microbet. Iâm a vegetarian now.
This canât be right though.
At night, when the chickens are sleeping, crews of chicken catchers round them up, grabbing four in each hand and caging them as the birds peck and scratch and defecate. Workers told me that they are paid around $2.25 for every thousand chickens. Two crews of nine catchers can bring in about seventy-five thousand chickens a night.
@nobody No.
If your point is that the chickens are disgusting, then this doesnât apply, but if youâre worried about the people, then youâre obviously not ok eating vegetables either. This is another really good article.
- Many farm laborers are essentially trapped for months at a time in rat-infested camps, often without beds and sometimes without functioning toilets or a reliable water supply.
- Some camp bosses illegally withhold wages to prevent workers from leaving during peak harvest periods.
- Laborers often go deep in debt paying inflated prices for necessities at company stores. Some are reduced to scavenging for food when their credit is cut off. Itâs common for laborers to head home penniless at the end of a harvest.
- Those who seek to escape their debts and miserable living conditions have to contend with guards, barbed-wire fences and sometimes threats of violence from camp supervisors.
- Major U.S. companies have done little to enforce social responsibility guidelines that call for basic worker protections such as clean housing and fair pay practices.
I saw that coming, but I have to draw the line somewhere. Best I can do is take up fasting.
I did some fieldwork when I was a kid. Onions and citrus. Onion juice soaks into your skin. You smell for days. Citrus you get scratched up and dirt in your face. Neither is good if you have allergies or are light-skinned.
I picked strawberries sometimes during the summer as a kid. I didnât much eat strawberries for a few years after that.
Things havenât really gotten any better for me though. In a couple days Iâm going to be putting solar panels on a roof in Santa Clarita. (if you donât know, itâs fucking hot there.)
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And twinkies?
Curt Schilling jfc
Looks like the president has given the green light to harass people who are out in public with their families! Hope slimeballs like SHS and KAC never have a peaceful dinner again
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