At Least 50 Children Found Working Graveyard Shifts Cleaning Midwest Slaughterhouses

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corporations use outside "contractors" so they can try to deny having knowledge/responsibility. So when the authorities go looking for XYZ Cleaning the company has magically disappeared and maybe never had more than a P.O. Box. The same thing happens with growers. There was a big bust of this sort of thing in the last few years in the upper Midwest. The "contractors" were basically holding adults and children as slave labor by use of force and intimidation. They controlled all movement and contact. The minders were armed. The growers claimed no knowledge of anything. Apparently having your managers or you yourself go out to the fields and see for yourself what is going on is something they feel would be unnecessary. Slave labor and child abuse on their own property and they felt no need to step in.