Feds found more than two dozen minors working in Ohio poultry plant
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The children, mainly from Guatemala, according to local immigration advocates, were working in meat processing and sanitation in a plant run by Gerber’s Poultry.

Federal agents found more than two dozen minors illegally working inside a poultry plant in Kidron, Ohio, earlier this month, according to local immigration advocates who spoke to NBC News on the condition of anonymity.

The children, mainly from Guatemala, according to the advocates, were working in meat processing and sanitation in a plant run by Gerber’s Poultry, which produces Amish Farm Chicken, advertised with the slogan “Better feed, better taste.”

  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    But regardless, the company almost certainly won’t be “hit hard”. They’ll be given a slap on the wrist for getting caught and will continue doing deeply fucked things in a deeply fucked industry.

    Fixed fines only exist to punish the poor. The factory just see fines as being a cost of business.

    • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Even better, you can just enter them right into spreadsheets so you know exactly how profitable it will be to steal wages from children, even if you get caught.