☭ Blursty ☭

102 children aged 13 in Nebraska and 7 other states were found working in slaughterhouses, doing overnight shifts, cleaning kill blades on the kill floor. 3 children sustained chemical burns from acid

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/712128

102 children aged 13 in Nebraska and 7 other states were found working in slaughterhouses, doing overnight shifts, cleaning kill blades on the kill floor. 3 children sustained chemical burns from acid - Lemmygrad

Since the Sanitation Services Inc employed by the slaughterhouses got fined for this, Arkansas under Huckabee signed a law removing requirements to verify ages of anyone working under 16. Aka no one is liable if children are working in slaughterhouses and getting chemical burns. Here’s a picture of one of the kids.

Jun 12, 2023 at 12:02pmWeb
Show thread☭ Blursty ☭Jun 12, 2023
Show threadComradeChairmanKGBJun 12, 2023
Death to America
Show threadOliverJun 14, 2023
Why no solidarity with the comrades who suffer under the system?
Show threadgwenJun 13, 2023
always the same map
Show threadarachnosocialismJun 13, 2023
Land of the free to work full time as a child
Show threadalbiguJun 13, 2023

Location: New York City

Show threadlntlJun 13, 2023

Of course it was in NYC

Makes me think of an addiction intervention. All of your friends and family come over to your place to tell you they love you and the decisions you're making are destructive. The whole world came over to the US to talk.

Show threadtchotchonyJun 12, 2023
I'm not sure if I entirely follow. So they don't need to verify (effectively legalizing child labour), but why would that remove liability for injuries?
Show thread☭ Blursty ☭Jun 12, 2023
The wording could be better, it's meant that they're not liable for hiring kids since they can say that they didn't know, are not responsible for knowing.
Show threadtchotchonyJun 12, 2023
Yeah, that's the child labour bit. But you don't suddenly turn immune to chemical burns once you're 16, so why would they not be liable for injuries? Even if they claim their workers to be 16, somebody still got hurt. I'm not familiar with the US legal system here, so forgive my ignorance.
Show thread☭ Blursty ☭Jun 12, 2023
Presumably these kids are very poor and/or immigrants. Someone needs to take a case for them to be held liable.
Show threadComradeSaladJun 12, 2023
They foehn ignorance, and because the law bends to capital in the US, they get off with a tiny tiny fine.
Show threadF1nnJun 12, 2023
Do you have some sauce for this? Not saying you're making it up, but I need to understand this better.
Show thread☭ Blursty ☭Jun 12, 2023

Good catch, I should have posted some.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-investigation-into-slaughterhouse-cleaning-company-that-hired-children-60-minutes-transcript-2023-05-07/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/09/nebraska-slaughterhouse-children-working-photos-labor-department

Show threadF1nnJun 12, 2023
Thanks!
Show threadloathsome dongeaterJun 12, 2023

In February, the labor department fined PSSI $1.5m for employing at least 102 children ages 13 to 17 across 13 meat-packing plants in eight states. The fine amounts to $15,138 for each child, the maximum penalty under federal law.

No one went to jail. Cool country.

Show threadbleepingblorpJun 12, 2023

wow... and if you watch Dominion (free documentary on YouTube) you know how dangerous those places are, and how traumatic working there would be...

Can't say I'm too surprised, but expecting things like this and actually confronting it are two different things.

The revolution shall be without mercy.

Show threadComrade_VigJun 12, 2023

Don't people literally get PTSD from slaughterhouses?

I guess now it's hard for butchers to determine if the child-like screams are pigs or kids getting chemical burns lol. ::: spoiler spoiler Wow what a fucked joke, shame on me :::

Show threadbleepingblorpJun 13, 2023

Yeah a lot of workers get PTSD. A lot. At least the ones who don't get off on torturing/killing animals.

If you watch (or already watched) Dominion you'll understand both parts of what I'm saying, both how people could get PTSD and how it is possible some people might enjoy cruelty.

For any comrades that watch it (or even its trailer) though, Content Warning: A FUCK TON OF ANIMAL CRUELTY AND DEATH BY THESE CORPORATIONS AND THEIR WORKERS IS DOCUMENTED IN UNCENSORED FOOTAGE. Highly recommend though.

Show threadComrade_VigJun 13, 2023
Sorry but I can't watch that, ignorance is bliss in this instance.
Show threadbleepingblorpJun 13, 2023
I get it. I sat through the whole thing, and by time I watched it I had already started transitioning toward veganism. Dominion made it essentially impossible to go back, since now even seeing animal byproducts makes me very uncomfortable.
Show threadKultronxJun 13, 2023
absolute silence from the fascist right wing 'protect the children' people.
Show threadbig_spoonJun 21, 2023
i can hear someone saying: "those skills will be useful for them! better working on a slaughterhouse than being indoctrinated in public school!"
Show threadCat WestJun 21, 2023
@Blursty @sam If we started putting in jail, those who profit from this; the company presidents/board members and the company that contracts them out… it would STOP
Show thread☭ Blursty ☭Jun 22, 2023
Lol no it wouldn't. The only thing that will stop this is the moving on from capitalism. There is no world under capitalism where these people are thrown in jail, at least not for long.