Source https://www.foodpolitics.com/2019/08/eric-schlosser-on-the-meat-industrys-hypocrisy-about-immigrants/
Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, explains in The Atlantic Why It’s Immigrants Who Pack Your Meat.
You really should read the whole thing. It’s a powerful indictment. Here are a few excerpts.
- The immigration raid last week at seven poultry plants in rural Mississippi was a perfect symbol of the Trump administration’s racism, lies, hypocrisy, and contempt for the poor. It was also a case study in how an industry with a long history of defying the law has managed to shift the blame and punishment onto workers.
- What Trump has described as an immigrant “invasion” was actually a corporate recruitment drive for poor, vulnerable, undocumented, often desperate workers.
- The immigrant workers arrested in Mississip…
Source https://www.foodpolitics.com/2019/08/eric-schlosser-on-the-meat-industrys-hypocrisy-about-immigrants/
Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, explains in The Atlantic Why It’s Immigrants Who Pack Your Meat.
You really should read the whole thing. It’s a powerful indictment. Here are a few excerpts.
- The immigration raid last week at seven poultry plants in rural Mississippi was a perfect symbol of the Trump administration’s racism, lies, hypocrisy, and contempt for the poor. It was also a case study in how an industry with a long history of defying the law has managed to shift the blame and punishment onto workers.
- What Trump has described as an immigrant “invasion” was actually a corporate recruitment drive for poor, vulnerable, undocumented, often desperate workers.
- The immigrant workers arrested in Mississip…
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