Federal government investigating possible human trafficking of children who cleaned slaughterhouses

[C0RI0LANUS]

Source: NBC News

Federal investigators are looking into whether 50 children — some as young as 13 — who were allegedly illegally employed cleaning Midwestern slaughterhouses were victims of labor trafficking.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-dhs-investigating-human-trafficking-children-slaughterhouses-rcna66081

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"Please, Sir, I want some more."

How much more feudal can the US be?

[H2O Man]

2. Recommended.

Thank you for this.

Back in the 1990s, when I worked for the county mental health clinic, myself and another worker went out on a community crisis call. There was a young lady there, extremely depressed, because she was here illegally, forced to work, and lived in a room smaller than a county jail cell.

Also, when my youngest daughter went to college a few years back, one of her classes visited a "workers' housing" on a giant farm. The people there were being treated no differently.

This terrible reality definitely exists in the USA.

[Stargazer99]

8. Business seems to be amoral it needs to be controlled to prevent destroying

human beings.

[H2O Man]

10. There was a book

published by Sierra Club Books in 1991, titled "In the Absence of the Sacred," by Jerry Mander. It is about high-tech society's failures, on top of industrial society's. I wouldn't be surprised if you are familiar with it. I've never met the author, but have been friends with Oren Lyons, the Onondaga Faith Keeper, for decades. (Many decades, when I think back to how long ago it was when I was young!)

I'd make that an Erich Fromm's 1955 book "The Sane Society" required reading for students of life at any age, who want to make positive change. Surely, a society that holds people in slavery is neither sane nor stable.

I was talking to an old friend last week. He's worked in the media, mainly behind the camera, for decades, He lives in the northwest. He was telling me that police there suspect that a percentage of the young Native women who just "disappear" are being sold into prostitution and worse.

[sybylla]

3. JFC.

Murdering children's childhood for what? Everyone involved needs to go away for a long time. And the companies who hire through these traffickers need to be fined, too. They shouldn't be able to absolve themselves of guilt for saying I didn't hire them; they're contract employees. This problem exists because they turn a blind eye for profit.

[NullTuples]

7. For what? Not cheap meats for the buying public; for higher returns on investments.

That's become the name of the game this decade: "Just how much can we squeeze out of this business and get away with it"

Turns out, quite a bit. Investigations like this one are rare.

[OldBaldy1701E]

14. But, they are pulling themselves up by their boot straps! (sarcasm and n/t)

[PlutosHeart]

4. Who are these children???

And in other news MN. State colleges add "Butcher Programs" to their curriculum.
Ugh.

[IcyPeas]

5. slaughterhouses often hire undocumented people to do their work

people with no choices who can't go to authorities for fear of being deported....

If I were investigating any kind of trafficking a slaughterhouse would definitely be on my list of places to watch.

Advocates and lawyers have expressed concern that children who are without their parents and do not speak English could be at risk.

“There is a large number of unaccompanied minors in our state with very little resources, and without public, private or philanthropic resources these kids go off the radar and become very, very vulnerable to things like trafficking,” Lutz said

[markodochartaigh]

11. After high school I worked in the local giant slaughterhouse

for a year and a half to make money for college. A half century later my crapal tunnel still wakes me up at night sometimes. But it was the only job that paid more than minimum wage for unskilled labor with no connections. At least half of the workers were from Viet Nam or Laos, this was 1977, and about three quarters of the rest were from Mexico. There were two starting groups each week. Of the US born workers about half would quit the first day, often before lunch. I doubt that, on average, ten percent of the US born workers lasted more than a month. But because it was a union job there were benefits. One lady had cut her arm off on a table saw and was guaranteed an office job for life. I have Asperger's and it was known that I was gay. I got stabbed and they actually fired the guy who stabbed me. Looking back they may have fired him for slowing the line down, but at the time it seemed like the union cared.

[moniss]

12. Same with

chicken processing plants.

[Rebl2]

6. I seem to

remember something along these lines being reported in Missouri back in November 2022. I think it had to do with poultry.

[Stargazer99]

9. Proves my point business needs government control

since they can't seem to control themselves ending in human misery

[Farmer-Rick]

15. So true

There really isn't any markets, business, corporations or large scale factories, without government.

First government has to make society peaceful enough so the filthy rich can buy most everything and not get it stolen from under their noses. Usually that involves guards and police that most people will listen to or are afraid of. Then they have to make the markets safe enough so that people can go and buy stuff without worrying if the stuff is being stolen. Again it involves police that have some amount of trust from vendors and customers.

Then there have to be somewhat trustworthy courts and judges so businesses and customers can bring contract, property and sales disputes to be resolved.

Without some kind of government, business can not function.

The filthy rich would like you to believe we need them or the government would not exist. But actually they wouldn't exist without government.

[moniss]

13. North Carolina

also for chicken and pork plants as I recall. It seems to me that I remember Perdue and Pilgrim's Pride being talked about.

[ificandream]

16. Let's investigate all those immigrants shuttled to Massachusetts and D.C. from Texas and Florida.

[ck4829]

17. Disgusting.