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Poultry processor hit with proposed $212,646 fine after second worker, a teen, killed by machine | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 108 points 10 months ago
  1. This is a proposed fine.
  2. "Mar-Jac Poultry's estimated annual revenue is currently $227.1M per year. Mar-Jac Poultry's estimated revenue per employee is $337,500" https://growjo.com/company/Mar-Jac_Poultry meaning that this proposed fine is less than the income this child generated for them.
  3. The child was hired by Onin Staffing, and there is no proposal to fine them. "Onin Staffing's estimated annual revenue is currently $235.9M per year." https://growjo.com/company/Onin_Staffing
  4. This is murder.
  5. This is the fault of Republicans.
  6. They're good with that.
[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 36 points 10 months ago

Why are there even kids working there? How old was this "teen"? What is wrong with the USA (rethorical question)?

Your numbers (i assume correctness) are making it even more worse. Disgusting even. That's like fines not bound to income. A major kick in the nutsack for the poor and a slightly more expensive, but totally neglectable, parking-ticket for the rest.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

Many of them are immigrant children.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697113/immigrant-child-labor-crisis

CNN obviously won't identify the child, but I would not be at all surprised if the child was an immigrant.

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago

Which would exactly change what? Still a teen that shouldn't work in such a place. Maybe an hour a day filling shelfs in a supermarket. Not working at a deboner in a soul-crusher.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

It doesn't change anything. It's an explanation of why the kids are hired. They're immigrants that came across the border illegally and are being exploited. They are being helped along by Republican state laws. It's all racism.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

He told me that he called and asked for help and he thought at least maybe the police would come and check out the house, somebody might come and knock on the door and instead nothing happened. He ended up escaping eventually on his own. When I asked Health and Human Services about this, they told me that yes, they did not have a policy of calling these children back or going out once they were contacted.

Patently HHS didn't think it was important to follow up on phone calls they receive. WTF?

Adam Conover also has a video breaking down the issue.

https://youtu.be/_ve6BqXzbjw

[-] RoseRose56@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Why they don't just force them shutdown? Unsafe workplace,1 teen died and 1 adult, what else you want ?? Sad just sad. Edited as mentioned on omy other comment.

[-] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

The other people who work there see it as their best opportunity.

Let that sink in for a minute.

If you close that place, their life just got worse. Better to fix it.

[-] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

God that's grim

[-] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Why not shut down the place liquidate it's asset's and distribute it all to the workers. Fuck that management they created that mess and deserve to pay for it !

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

Liquidate the asshats in charge, too.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

1 teen, the previous was an adult. Not that it changes the heinousness.

[-] RoseRose56@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I thought I it said 2, my fault then! Thanks for correcting me.

[-] Llewellyn@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

The is the charm

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 36 points 10 months ago

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I aimed for their hearts and hit them in the stomach instead.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 36 points 10 months ago

Oh, is that what a teenager's life is worth, combined with the very serious FUCKING HEALTH THREATS of a FOOD PROCESSOR having people DIE in the FACTORY?

Surely this will teach them not to do it again.

[-] ITypeWithMyDick@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

At least its only the proposed fine, so theres hope they can work it down to a more reasonable amount. I mean, have you seen teenagers?

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Kids these days don't want to work and get caught in a de-boner!

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago

Actually the value of the teen to the company is about $337,500 per year, the amount of revenue the child generated for them.

In fact, if this is the only cost they incur, then they have the financial incentive to keep killing children.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

What a boring fucking dystopia.

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months ago

They're being fined for killing a kid? Better remove those pesky REGULATIONS so they won't be fined next time!

-Republicans trying to Protect The Children

[-] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

The neoliberalism that drives shit like this is unfortunately (and genuinely) a "both sides" issue.

The right-wing will be more openly psycopathic about it but ostensibly left-wing parties the world over are still dragging their feet on the regulations needed to force companies to behave ethically.

We desperately need to dismantle the "managed democracy" they've built where the only choices are "red neoliberal" or "blue neoliberal" before they kill us all.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

So a childs life is only worth 212,646 dollars to the government?

[-] Birdie@thelemmy.club 9 points 10 months ago

No, not at all. That's what TWO kids' lives are worth.

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

2 people (one a teenager) killed and there isn't a CRIMINAL investigation?

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Canned chicken of the land! Now with 80% less teen.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Now with 60% less teen....now 20% less teen....now with 5% less teen...now it just 0.0005% left teens tit (LTT).... Now with 1ppmltt...(part per million left teens tit)...look teen tits are hard to clean off stainless steel okay. That's just life..... McDonald's

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

The flavor is better developed, but the texture is quite chewy, longer cooking times and marinades can help. An acquired taste really. Roald Dahl's 'short story 'Pig' sums it up nicely https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_(short_story)

[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

“Price of doing business. Can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs.”

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's it? They should at least get fined for that kid's estimated earnings over a lifetime. Even at the current garbage minimum wage, that would be $750k.

Unfortunately this is likely an undocumented child and there will be no lawsuit over it.

[-] Masterblaster@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

"chicken deboning machine"

hm

erm

don't google that

[-] kemsat@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I 100% read “poultry professor” the first time.

[-] ElcaineVolta@kbin.social -5 points 10 months ago

if you're paying for the needless slaughter of animals, you're paying for this too. buying animal products is creating the demand, and the machine will keep crushing the innocent and exploited.

[-] OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Or, you know, regulate it for safety like any other industry.

If you're paying for ANY clothing you didn't make yourself, you're paying and driving demand for underage laborers in impoverished countries to make your stuff.

If you're using the internet, that costs electricity and that's (on average) produced by fossil fuels at power generators, spurring on demand for further pollution and destruction of our planet.

The above are examples of silly arguments, but do you see how you might have propped up an unrelated point about veganism/vegetarianism during a story about a dead teenager?

[-] ElcaineVolta@kbin.social -1 points 10 months ago

yea, why hasn't anyone thought to make the dismemberment factory a safe place to be?

[-] OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

You just going to sidestep the other points above that talk about exploitation of children and the planet or do you just want to talk about cattle? Because if cattle is more important than those things, please let me know so I can write this off as a conversation not worth having.

[-] ElcaineVolta@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago

you said yourself that they were silly, and I wholeheartedly agree.
but the whole "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, so we might as well violate all the rights we can!" isn't it.

[-] OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

The problem is that I don't believe there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, that statement encompasses the argument of "there's no ethical consumption of meat" which seems to be the one you began with. I'm willing to agree there's an over consumption of meat in US diets, I myself struggle to shove more veggies into my life and cut back on the steaks and burgers, but to frame all meat consumption as "needless slaughter" underneath an article about a teen dying in a processing is drastically tone deaf.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

If properly maintained and running at a reasonable pace, the disnemberment factory is actually a pretty safe place to work.

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