• larlyssa@lemmy.world
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    Pardon my delicate city sensibilities but I don’t think children should be working in meat processing plants surrounded by death and danger.

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      Have they not read “The Jungle”? Pretty sure this exact sort of thing was addressed a hundred years ago.

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        the thing about The Jungle was that we were supposed to read it and think “people need better working conditions” but a shockingly large number of people read it and thought “we need some sort of filtering system in place to keep all those immigrant thumbs out of the sausage”

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      I thought it was actually illegal for him to be working there? Maybe I misread another post.

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        You’re right, I hadn’t read that yet at the time I posted this.

        Retraction: It appears that minors are not allowed to be working in meat processing plants, but that he was hired by an external staffing contractor who did not properly adhere to those restrictions.

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          hired by an external staffing contractor who did not properly adhere to those restrictions

          All by design…