Tyson Foods and Perdue Farms face federal probe over possible child labor violations

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Tyson Foods and Perdue Farms face federal probe over possible child labor violations
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Two major companies who have monopolized food. I am shocked.

two major companies who

Exploit animal bodies on mass scale. I'm shocked they'd exploit children's bodies too 🥴

yeah, but animals don't matter /s

Apparently neither do children.

Now now, they aren’t complete monsters. It’s only OTHER PEOPLE’s kids that don’t matter to them. Well and other races, and other countries, and probably a bunch more.

I feel like I just read a story about children working in meat processing factories. Guess we're skipping right to The Jungle then.

Does this mean they are going to discontinue the Tyson Boneless Children Fingers?

"Tyson Boneless Breaded Childrens Fingers" sounds like it was typed up by someone dyslexic, but could also be an interesting Halloween product (made of candy hopefully) 😆

On the one hand, do I think they did it? 100% yes. On the other, am I surprised the law is signaling they might do something about it? Also yes.

There have been dozens of credible reports of such violations, of children being maimed and losing limbs even, and now finally there's a probe? Watching the law take this much time to announce it will begin to investigate what's been in the news for years almost convinced me it didn't want to do it at all.

But. Why do the kids need to work in the first place

Because we're trending towards 3-4 income houses being required to make rent.

*"We take the legal employment and safety of each individual working in our facilities very seriously and have strict, longstanding policies in place for Perdue associates to prevent minors from working hazardous jobs in violation of the law..."*

They say they didn't do it. Did they or is this just another another DOL shakedown?