Meatpacking: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Exactly, my first day working at Sprouts grocery store I was told exactly that, and at that moment I knew my time was short there. It's insulting hearing it and expecting to believe it!

And by "family", We mean "not really."

If the job application has that phrase and also phrases like
Were looking for a rockstar
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They say that because they want you to think of them as a person of trust
A person you wouldn't rat out about minor things
A person who would be there no matter what
Companies only see you as an asset and should be treated as such
Hell there is an entire sector called "human resources"

yeah, truth hurts

That’s why we deserve extinction. Let’s die.

oof 100

you spelled "capitalism" wrong.

@@calvinthefly Theres a good chance forced labor made the phone you're watching this on and made your hollow posturing possible.... jus' sayin'

hell yeah. i subbed because of that

Absolutely.

though the Meat Inspection Act was better than nothing

now lawmakers pretty much reversed the rules and making things worse

also upton sinclair was a socialist so alot of people initially didn't believe him.

@@iamseamonkey6688 He did embellish some details for the sake of a more compelling story, but otherwise, he was spot on

final fantasy tactics

Or maybe the penalty isn't as harsh because the crimes committed by companies aren't as severe as the actions by murderers/rapists/gang members, and because companies are the backbone of a civilization.

@@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 Over 200 meat packing workers dead? That sounds pretty fucking bad to me.

@@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 civilization existed for thousands of years without companies 😂😂😂 backbone my ass. Trade.. trade is the backbone of civilization. That does not require companies.

A fine is well... fine... As long as it's appropriate. Let's say you have income-based fines in percentages (like Finland has for (at least) driving-related tickets).

Soon the fines just become part of doing business and less of a deterrent.

Solid gold

Fear of corporate greed is also what's driving tge farmer's protests in India who fear an agricorporation takeover. There's actually a pretty good analysis ofbthe situation there: krplus.net/bidio/eaWQpZyRc4ephGk&ab_channel=MyTake

Yeah. That is what he said.

not limited to meat packing. TEFLON, and recently Chase Bank with manipulation of markets. and many many more. People just don't realize it. These people need to get jailed, not fined.

Best way to effect change in both senarios is to go vegan. It's so much easier than I first thought it would be

@@alexmol6268 Since January 2020 I've been mostly plant based after seeing Game Changers (not a perfect doc. but definitely helped dispell any doubt I still had about healthy veganism) and looking into the industry more and its... Horrifying.
Still not fully vegan yet but I gotta say knowing what I know now I hard cringe looking back at the time I let myself jump on the anti-vegan bandwagon even a little. Here I was just five years ago laughing at cringey bacon memes and thinking vegans were just dummies that didn't understand the circle of life and all that time those obnoxious ass vegan fucks were actually right all along...
Strongly suggest anyone reading this comment that has Netflix to watch:
-The Game Changers
-Seaspiracy (about the seafood industry)
-Dominion (that one's a free youtube documentary that shows the worst of the worst of the worst, problem is most of it is perfectly legal to do in most US states, so then mix that with the existence of animal ag gag laws....)
...Needless to say that shit's a major eye opener

@@historicalaccuracy15 I still love meat, but eat vegetarian about 4 days a week at minimum, and when I do eat meat it's nicer because it's not the "normal" everyday thing I eat anymore. I likely won't ever go vegan, but hey if someone wants to go vegan, more power to em.

It’s actually a lot easier to go flexitarian. I have a varied diet.

same XD

You're still trying to open your EDC folding knife, and your leg bones are already showing.

Knife goes in, guts come out!

Little hidden gem right there....

I do bone chuck 😆 hi.

By the time you’ve drawn yours, you’ll already have been deboned

Yep that’s been that mans MO Since June 2014.

Truly an unregulated capitalist Nightmare

Talking about the symptoms of capitalism without addressing the underlying problem tonight with John Oliver

then get sued for it because a geriatric hobgoblin got exposed for their shitty behavior.

Problem is, it's already very exposed. It's great that Mr Oliver is highlighting it, absolutlely great, but even I who live in Sweden has known about some of these issues in the US for years. It's been in movies, documentaries and the news countless times, but much like usually, most people upset right now probably won't care enough to remember about it in a few weeks or a couple of months. I'm not trying to be cynical, it just makes me pretty damn sad. 😟

And also one for the White people and the other for minorities

@@athenasuperheldin1017 Definitely

And one for democrats and one for republicans

Land of the extreme opposites

The US legalized "Marihuana" to make equipment for the military during World War II.
But we weren't told about that, so everyone keeps paying billions of dollars in taxes each year to fund the war on drugs.
Watch the 1942 USDA film Hemp For Victory and then get mad enough to force Congress to pass the Hemp For Victory Act of 2019 so that this putrid injustice will finally end, along with climate change.

I was hoping he would say "abusive"
rather than "dysfunctional."
My family is a little dysfunctional.
That's fucking abuse. Wide spread, and massive.

"And if you don't we will disown you on the spot and then talk shit about you"

->Then do something about it! Boycott meat!
->One more reason...
...we should all be vegan.

Boom, this right here

@@someguy2135 Even if everyone was vegan, this stuff would still go on, just in vegetable packing facilities.

also michael scott

@@lala170623 yeah true...at least Michael Scott gets better over time. No manager I've ever worked for has had that level of character development 😂

How can you be so cynical? Gabrielle, it is a family. A crime family, most likely. Just the the following families: Colombo, Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Patriarca, House Bolton, House Lannister, House Frey.

@@bosmerfromcanada3878 you had me in the first half, I'm not gonna lie - I was about to get real mad 😂

The corporate family is actually a lot closer to a crime family than it is to various more typical types of families.

Early in the pandemic my employer, UPS, referred to us as "heroes." A token gesture that did nothing to make me feel safer. Now they don't even bother doing that.

We had a rough week where I work with the winter storm blowing through, several of us from different stores banned together, gave team members food to take home for their family’s, helped at other stores when our stores were out of power etc. it was that moment we realized it’s the people at the store level that make something a family, not someone at a desk several states away.

Sounds like something a slave owner would say

Or a "team"

My boss just called myself and my associates a family. >.>

Justice under crapitalism working as intended...

You need to form an LLC and start lobbying.

These factorys treat animals more worse than any criminal in prison, I cannot understand humanity

@@joenervlus3239 I’d like to think you understand humanity just fine - it’s the lack of humanity that you don’t understand. At least that’s what it is for me.

Yet corporate personhood still exists somehow. Companies shouldn't be able to get the advantages of being a person but skip the disadvantages.

Have you seen the state of nursing homes? Sounds like exactly how we treat family these days.

@@cykr0s moral dilemma created by distancing one's self from religion. pick one and stick with it. don't cherry-pick or wiggle your way out of it.

That's... really not how families should work either, but I get what you mean.

You think the way they treat humans are bad? Good god- if people knew how animals were treated... it is literally hell on Earth
Torture and abuse are NORMAL in animal factories (99% of meat produced in America comes from factory farms)
Mutilated, force-fed, separated and abused from birth until they're slaughtered (if they don't die first from the atrocious settings they're trapped in- abusing anti-biotics is why factories are creating so many superbugs)

Not every family is great. So yeah, they are like a very dysfunctional family. 😏

->Then do something about it! Boycott meat!
->One more reason...
...we should all be vegan.

@@someguy2135 in what universe does that logically lead to and end to wage slavery or the abuse of workers?

@Umbrella Corporation extreme capitalism. Bad news for most people.

It is also fascinating how we run our 21st century society with massively outdated 17th century documents that were meant to be continuously re-written to reflect an increasing population and needs.

I live in SC where MoH recipient Kyle C is being mistreated by Tyson Chicken

I'm always fascinated how *american* america is. You guys always somehow gave total authority to a certain number of companies rather than keeping it flexible. Capitalism at its finest.

Predates capitalism by a long time. The whole farming industry used to be controlled by just a few families in each global region who forced people to do agricultural labor on the same plot of land for their whole lives if not by outright enslaving them and managed the shifting of their vast land holdings through elaborate intermarriage, intermediary, and inheritance schemes. People often thought they were working for themselves but they had to give the farm boss the authority of God on Earth to do it.
In a lot of cultures before capitalism the farm boss used to publicly murder people and tell everybody that it was necessary to ensure sun or rain or good crop yields. And that’s as recent as a few hundred years ago.
Capitalism broke this up for a couple hundred years - and the Sea People also broke it up for a thousand years or so back in the Bronze Age - but in agriculture there are such huge economies of scale that it tends to consolidate.
And farm consolidation and central ownership gets even more dominant when societies theatrically reject capitalism through revolution (only to return to it later, but with no more independent farmers).

I don't understand people trying to get the "cheapest" food. It is literally what your body is made of. Unless of course you are dirt poor then I get it.

Very well put, you hit the nail on the head.

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@@nerfherder4284 that's why we need to spread the wealth out, so that people don't need to get the great value oatmeal or go to mcdonalds for the third time in a week just to survive.

That can be said about everything, right? Someone always pays the price.

Here in Canada we refer to Alberta as "Texas North" so...

This is true. But here in Canada we have health care, regular COVID relief cheques, and relatively simple unemployment insurance. Canada is not perfect - not even close. The best solution is to stop eating meat (milk and eggs too) or at least cut down substantially.

@@neuralmute Don't be ridiculous, we don't call it that.
We call it "Winter Alabama".

@@renatocorvaro6924 Never heard that one before, but thanks for the laugh!
May I kindly ask what province you're bringing this from? (Curious hoser is curious...;D)

@@renatocorvaro6924 I've NEVER heard that one.. but omg that's hilarious

My highschool social teacher introduced me to him! That teacher had a massive impact on me and this is a very lasting part.

and we've been this way since inception.. we outlawed slavery but we still prey on the weak and essentially make slaves of them..

And we continue to vote in corrupt politicians who lie very well!!

Moar like "Welcome to the party, comrade!" amirite?

the sad part is that the US is not alone, just check Germany, basically the same shit at the meat factories.... :(

No excuse to not change it, which you seemed to forget to say.

Have y'all considered forming an armed union?

OMG!!

Do you eat animals, milk and eggs?

@@xXxXboxROXxX If they try, they'll probably get fired first.

Sure hope you didn't use your real name here...

We need to bring back anarcho-syndicalism

yes but capitalists will argue that you could've just not signed that, so it was voluntary.

@@HeyJinx except the problem with that is that, while yes, co-ops are good and more of them would help, they still operate mostly under capitalism, and is close to mutualism, which mutualism offers no answers to or protections from monopoly guild wars

@@joshuacox534 that's not mutualism. Read a book or something

@@HeyJinx no kidding? that's why i said it's close to mutualism. i didn't say it was the same. both mutualism and anarcho-syndicalism are anarchist approaches to the economy, and both may work temporarily but not long term.

One sided biased propaganda is now passing as journalism? Wow, low bar I guess

@@dwells7747 I often dislike the forced "humor" and see that the writers add some more sensationalist stuff just for a better story. still, call it what you will, they do push important often ignored subjects which I'd bet most of the audience would've barely heard of without this show. in this day and age of social networks and media monopolies I'm willing to call it journalism.

@@dwells7747 Here's a hint, sometimes things are one sided because the other side is bollocks.

Where do you think they get their money from? They get it from YOU.

It’s a disgusting culture that loves the thought of having to do hard work in order to get half a living wage. What do politicians (mainly conservative) say constantly to criticize or slander their opponents? “This man has never had a hard days work in his life”. Yeah, he studied law, and is now running for elected office, probably one of the better avenues to public service than digging ditches and slicing chicken on conveyor belts.

I think she was privileged enough to not even comprehend that there are certain workplaces that don't allow bathroom breaks

@@elihenley6982 Absolutely, that is the kind of attitude we need in America.

The conservative defense for this shit is “The employees provide jobs, so we can’t blame them.” Ignoring how shitty the conditions of the jobs are or how low the wages are.

This is why i am against immigration they dont know the jobs they will most likely get are horrible and the nation is ungrateful for what immigrants have to put up

Its awful these companies are permitted to prey on immigrants because they cannot seek legal help. Its worse to see Americans deciding to STOP immigration instead of deciding to make this a country that will welcome them, and even help them when they are in need. “Lets just close the borders, we dont need to improve the system at all” is a terrible view to take

Underrated comment.

@@huntersw2 then who will do the work, hmm? They can’t just automate poultry work in 1 day, it would take years of designing, manufacturing and than installing machines to do the job duties.

@@huntersw2 thats a terrible reason to be against it. These immigrants come here to work. Yes, i wish they have better opportunities but still, let them have the opportunity to work

trust but verify. I am a big fan Mr John Oliver , but please remind people to get more information before they join in . I have , and here Oliver is right in the particulars ! What can be done about it? NO IDEA

@@alexmeyjes5533 There needs to be unions.

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@@trendingtens468 Someone’s trying to use the plight of meatpackers to further their own agenda

I am really sorry for your dad. But I am glad he won!

I'm so happy to hear that he won

You should do other peoples loved ones, and the animals, a favor and go vegan and stop supporting these horrific industries.

@@DiahRhiaJones There are other ways to consume meat. Also, not everyone can sustain a vegan diet. Meat has been in our diet for centuries. I also highly doubt you and your friends who feel so superior over us piece of shit meat eaters are ready to give up your iPhones, your vehicles, your jewelry, etc. Most industries have issues - welcome to globalization and American capitalism. Just because you don't eat meat doesn't mean you're saving the world. So spare us the noble bullshit.

@@Ward413 Woah someone's triggered... I'm pretty sure they were just making a suggestion. And I mean it's not a bad one. Even just cutting down meat consumption to once a week helps the environment, animal welfare, and employee welfare.

Be sure to watch John's video about chicken farming on this same channel.

The benefits of switching to a purely plant based diet are amazing.
1-Your own health (vegans are less likely to get several deadly chronic diseases)
2-Helping to end animal agriculture would reduce the chance of another pandemic & other zoonotic diseases
3-Helping to end animal ag would reduce the chance of the development of an antibiotic resistant pathogen.
4-Animal ag wastes a huge amount of fresh water
5-Animal ag is a major cause of water pollution
6-Animal ag is a major cause of deforestation
7-Animal ag increases PTSD and spousal abuse in the people who work in slaughterhouses
8-Animal ag is a major cause of the loss of habitat and biodiversity
9-Animal welfare, obviously
10- It is the single most effective way for each of us to fight climate change and environmental degradation.
11- Longer lifespan.
12- Healthier weight (vegans were the only dietary group in the Adventist Studies that had an average BMI in the recommended range.)
13- A vegan world would save 8 million human lives a year, and $1.5 trillion in health care costs (Oxford Study)
Links for some of these are at my channel under "About."

Thanks for the recommendation!

YES.

->Then do something about it! Boycott meat!
->One more reason...
...we should all be vegan.

@@someguy2135 Bleugh

@@JatPhenshllem Your case against veganism is admirably concise, but for some reason, I remain unconvinced.

@@JatPhenshllem More reasons? The benefits of switching to a purely plant based diet include...
1-Your own health (vegans are less likely to get several deadly chronic diseases)
2-Helping to end animal agriculture would reduce the chance of another pandemic & other zoonotic diseases
3-Helping to end animal ag would reduce the chance of the development of an antibiotic resistant pathogen.
4-Animal ag wastes a huge amount of fresh water
5-Animal ag is a major cause of water pollution
6-Animal ag is a major cause of deforestation
7-Animal ag increases PTSD and spousal abuse in the people who work in slaughterhouses
8-Animal ag is a major cause of the loss of habitat and biodiversity
9-Animal welfare, obviously
10- It is the single most effective way for each of us to fight climate change and environmental degradation.
11- Longer lifespan.
12- Healthier weight (vegans were the only dietary group in the Adventist Studies that had an average BMI in the recommended range.)
13- A vegan world would save 8 million human lives a year, and $1.5 trillion in health care costs (Oxford Study)
Links for some of these are at my channel under "About."

@@someguy2135 Nah. My only fears are full time veganism. I don't like meat all the time. So I like it in moderation.
And thank you for that comprehensive list, it is definitely impressive.

I was hoping I wasn't the only one who immediately thought of "The Jungle."

Growing up with talk radio, I was told that book was communist propaganda, using the meatpacking industry as little more than an excuse to indoctrinate people with socialist clap trap. (Also, in right wing circles, communism and socialism are synonyms.) With an introduction like that, is it any wonder that the book has been written off and not heeded by those who might be able to actually do something about it?

@@Tustin2121 honestly, for group of ppl that constantly complain about the media not being trustworthy, they have a terrible habit of accepting conservative media talking points at face value. We need more independent thinking that's data and evidence driven.

These conditions aren't any better in the farming industry...

I’m glad I scrolled down far enough to see this post. i was about to make the same comment. Sinclair’s book made a deep impression on me when I read it 50 years ago.

why dont u get a job and help them out

@@mattgrele6318 I already have a job thanks ^^

@@mattgrele6318 , what would "helping them out" do? The OP and family will be working still the same amount..

@@mattgrele6318 Sorry, but this kind of comment is disgusting. To be this persumptious ...

@@mattgrele6318 Why would that make a difference in the broader conversation about the treatment of workers in meatpacking plants?
Clearly removing 1 worker every two days due to injury or death hasn’t changed that. Why would you think removing two more workers from that system would change anything?

He's out here supporting animal farming.

Well, that's why America hates unions & syndicates

Underrated comment!

One of my teachers claimed they had significantly improved and I just did not believe it for a second.

@@barackobama129 Maybe they meant in the modern world.

We're following the monopolization business model used in the Industrial Revolution. Conglomerates. Reagan de-regulating everything started a lot of this. OSHA used to have power. While we were not paying attention, more and more de-regulation kept going on. It's about making more $ at any cost. SOS.

Notice how Texas is a very prominent problem for some reason as well lately, I wonder why...

Not that much has improved in politics.
We still have children in cages at the border, a price ceiling on insulin was cancelled, they've restarted support for the Saudi war crimes in Yemen, and the Biden admin is approving new drilling. Also, no relief checks yet and Biden refuses to cancel student loan debt he can absolutely cancel. But yeah, sure, perhaps some things have improved.

@@joelhicks5468 Cancelling student loan debt would be a disasterous policy lol

@@joelhicks5468 Well maybe not improved but they are not going worse as fast.

@@joelhicks5468 He can't cancel debt and if you're lying about that you're not trustworthy on the rest

Unions are the scum of the earth.

@@dwells7747 i'm sorry you think that, hopefully you come out of that mindset soon

@@aislingoda6026 they absolutely are, especially in the public sector, why should a union be allowed to bully the tax payer? Answer that one

@@dwells7747 smh

it’s capitalism

@@user-ow6sn2gz2z this factory need some automation too, the thing is too fast for a human.

No it’s not. Do you need a lesson on slavery?

Yep...in classic slavery; slaves have value b/c there is a cost 2 replace them. With modern slavery; it's better for (profits) 2 get new employees that maintain the ones u have...

@@peacekeeperbabe you seriously don’t see a difference between slavery that went on for centuries around the world and the modern day work environment? Low skilled workers are just that, low skilled. But that doesn’t mean they are low skilled forever, everyone starts from somewhere

Goddamn, this the truest thing I've ever read.

Ohoho if you’ve ever worked for literal family you’d know that’s exactly what this means. Child labor laws be damned!

Ya there are some things that everyone can tell that need to be fixed in the us.
Government Corruption, More oversite in industry, and our medical system.

Holidays?! Kiss those goodbye

@@caitlincheney4358 are you saying you don’t want to spend your holidays with your “family”?

Well, Adam did ask John to cut it out!😃

Yeah, I'm noticing a distinct lack of obvious jokes in this episode. C'mon John, you know you want to.

We need to abolish animal agriculture as we know it. It's horrific it truly is the biggest mafia and cancer we as a society are getting sick of while the ultra billionaires of the world, the texan prototypical sexist "macho" rancher conservative psychopath gets every single day richer and richer. This is NOT tho, an "anti-capitalist" rant, I LOVE capitalism and entrepreneurship, I just think these massive corporation conglomerates who are highly monopolistic are getting away with EVERYTHING. The climate suffers when we eat meat, the workers, our health, global health (because of zoonotic diseases and pandemics), it is completely insane and has to stop. We can get protein in smarter ways, we can still have some less sentient animals as food such as crickets or acuiculture/acuaponics raised fish which do NOT harm the oceans. This can solve global hunger, improve factory conditions, can be applied in a vertical farming, indoors/city farming model and along with lab grown meat and vegan substitutes we can build a safer, CLEANER, healthier and more ethical food system that benefits the earth and can feed even 10billion more people. As we know, in mars there won't be a plausible way to keep livestock alive, so the futuristic way is indeed to eat less meat, just ask astronauts about it.

@@nicolassalazar457 wrong thread?

@@nicolassalazar457 you argue that this can “solve global” hunger but we already can, the amount of food America and many other nations waste could easily feed the hungry. The FDA has some of the craziest standards for food and when they’re not met absurd amounts of food can be thrown away. Also there’s probably not going to be any justifiable end to eating animals that would actually make companies stop producing meat. So rather than try to win impossible up hill battle and just end all consumption of sentient animals, I think we should just aim to create less in humane facilities for processing meat. Both for actual human workers and the slaughterhouses. I just don’t think you’re argument is feasible when all the money and power is on the side of those who profit off of the current meat industry

The Jungle should be required reading I haven’t read it yet but it’s definitely up next.

@Nicholas Lysaght Are you seriously shaming a man who worked and committed three decades of his life for JBS to support his family and then dying from COVID the fault of him being LAZY!?
First, I'll save you some time. His name as John stated is Saul Sanchez. I did some research just to enlighten you. He came from Mexico to the US to save his daughters life in the 70's. In Juarez, Mexico he was a manager of 15 pharmacies, not starting off too lazy is it? His daughter had kidney failure and he moved to find her the proper medical treatment in the US, legally I may add, the Nation of Immigrants. He took a job as a landscaper and was able to pay for her medical bills over time. He then opened a bakery in Greely Colorado in 1992. He was close to the JBS plant and took a job there to continue to cover bills and help his family. The entire time he supported his daughters as they obtained their degrees. One daughter became a nurse and was working at the hospital he died in. Now tell me where the "lazy/plan for your family" part of this comes in?
Second, if you dont think that profits were not placed on the top tier of JBS' priority list when confronted with COVID, you are more of a fool than I imagined. Yes, they are a business and yes they need to maintain something, but after making $7 BILLION dollars in profits in 2019, you think they could have the ability to restructure, just enough to stop production for a moment, which they had to do anyways, and rethink how the future of their line may function. It may have saved this mans life and others. "bUt ThEy OnlY MaDe 6 BilLiOn iN 2020?" Such a strange idea right? I am a business owner not only responsible for the product I deliver but the people I employ and their health and safety... who would have thought they go together?
Before you decide to type such ignorant crap on the internet again, such as calling hard-working immigrants who died attempting to maintain a lifeline for their loved ones through the age of 78, LAZY. Stop. Take a minute. Think about how you dont know a thing about what you are about to say, and how YES, you sound racist, so 2021 amirite? and shut your brain down for us all, we'll take it as a favor. This also applies to the comment you are probably contemplating right now, but if we're lucky you may just shed light on your idiocy even more....
Good luck in life Nicholas.

@Nicholas Lysaght your privilege is showing, cover up
Also you CAN socially distance if you rethink your system and stop only caring about increasing profits. You're just being lazy in assuming such issues can't be problem solved.
But that's capitalism for you.

Even if it is an unskilled job it should still be safe. Companies shouldn't get away with unsafe conditions just because their workers are unskilled, they're still people.

@Nicholas Lysaght what a disgusting human being.

@Nicholas Lysaght Your quite stupid aren't you? With clearly no real idea of how your society functions from the ground up.

I can’t believe the inspector actually wore the box

today..? i turn to last week tonight every weekend to hear about the most ridiculous idiotic things I've heard in my entire life. it's cynic, really.

@@Wisegirl6521 He didn't say whether the inspector wore the box or not. I doubt that they did. These companies will just keep paying fines which is why federal prison time needs to be implemented for OSHA and SEC violations.

They do it snake style.

Putting a box on has saved me at various times in metal gear solid games.

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thank you my darling you are really welcome to my humble heart

Wow, I'm so sorry you had to endure that. I hope you're in a better situation now.

I'm so sorry you and your family went through that. I hope things are better for you now.

Why didn't you quit, and get a different job? You're smart...

@@vicrules6666 wow what a novel idea!

@@vicrules6666 yea h I’m sure folks desperate didn’t think of that. what an ignorant comment.

A lot has changed, but not for the better.

Only we the people can change America let's get going

Wikipedia: Originally published: November 4, 1905.
Damn.

That book should be renamed "the greed stricken cities" as an American I live in the Amazon Jungle and let me tell you in the past 3 years here, I've never seen an shit like that 😂😂😂

@@therealdeal3672 you obviously haven't read the jungle

When you start commenting for subs instead of making videos

@@purplelionpoliticsandhisto5025 c'mon man let him be

Some slave owners exploited people till they were run out in their eyes, some slave owners considered their slaves family. But at least they didnt do both of those.

Tbf, in most families, the parents make more than the children (especially if the children are underage, in which case they're likely not making any money at all). And as is taught, the parents are the "boss" of the family...

@@isaacleillhikar4566 I'm confused, A SLAVE IS NEVER FAMILY, they are a fucking slave...they have no agency so slave owners who saw their slaves as family are just as delusional and even more horrible... I genuinely don't get what you were trying to say...being a slave is being generationally exploited ALWAYD

You don't need unions, you need LAWS

Exactly. Unions aren't perfect, but obviously these manufacturers aren't either. Unions are why there are worker laws, but with asshats slipping senators checks to pass laws that harm workers, this isn't going to change, in fact it's getting worse. But if you desire to go back to 15 hour work days 7 days a week for substandard pay, bash the unions. I gladly pay my dues, and stand proud for the brothers and sisters who got us safer working standards.

@@antalwahlers3574 ... And who do you think will force those laws you are speaking of to be create?
Corporations? Politicians? YOU?
Please get back to the real world...

@@madderthanever If you'd quit your hostility, you'd actually make a good point.

@@antalwahlers3574 we have child labor laws, the 8-hour day convention, and most of our current worker protections because of union activism

that is me every monday

Join the socialist party. Life is less depressing when you’re fighting for yourself, your family, and your community.

is it too much to ask for companies to have a moral compass? to realize that profit and employee satisfaction can co-exist?

@@Grooveboxonthebeattho Are we all willing to NOT buy the cheapest products? Are we ready to just not eat meat?
Remember how the beef industry sued Oprah when she said (after a similar report) "This has stopped be cold from eating another burger"

Every. Single. Time.

OVER A CENTURY AGO 😡

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I knowwwww
wtf 🤬
not at you, the industry

Jeez and I IMMEDIATELY had the jungle on the brain the moment this bit started. I knew immediately nothing had changed.

Haha.. sarcasm

If a company could make money off of torturing children, they would invent horrifying new machines and techniques to do it in the most efficient way possible.

Those people are the enemy or at least work for them

@@polarknight5376 Then they would claim the development of those machines as a tax write off, and charge the parents of the children for their services via debt collection

Who would have thought that people could benefit against oppression by uniting to fight it. Almost as if every tyrant ever removed from power was done by this exact thing.
Almost as if democracy in my country Denmark was a result of people uniting in the active process of removing authority from the monarch and establish a democracy where the people could vote on the people among them whom they believed was fitting for the authority to rule the country.

I'll tell you now that you will never see such an episode. That's like the 4-star general fighting in the trenches. It's a battlefield and every day is war.

I second that 🤣

Hey! There's actually a ton of these investigations. Check out the organization Mercy For Animals, they are known for their investigation work. They also run a cool project called Transfarmation that helps animal farmers convert to raising plants

This make this happen. @producers cinema

Kinda
Workers need to unionize and build dual power structures.

Probably, but not the "important" people. They benefit from war.

$$Blue buy now 🍢
I heard there was something about blue and innuendo on elon's Twitter

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Lmao

Sounds about right!!!

Yeah that sounds like family

XD

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That's terrible.

I signed that when joining the US Army as an infantry soldier. Fucking sad.

@@ryankarl8472 haha so you and James Handson are in the same line of work

Isn’t that what pirates did?

It should at the very least be 100s of 1000s of dollars, but somehow I’m sure it isn’t.

Oh damn thats a good allusion, we really havent changed jack shit have we?

he's probably like: I DID EVERYTHING FOR YOU. I WROTE THE JUNGLE FOR YOU. I WENT IT INSANELY GROTESQUE DETAIL ABOUT THE MEATPACKING INDUSTRY AND YOU STILL DO THIS!!??

I wondering who else would be thinking of him.

That probably gave some people ideas on how to run a meatpacking plant.

Great book along with "The Grapes of Wrath" by Steinbeck. It was 'Profits over People' then and remains exactly that today.

The work can be seen in many vegan documentaries and a good one that isn’t vegan is supersize me 2 when it comes to the farmers

No. It doesn't. For example Tyson's treatment of the animals is simply cruel and evil. You're already leading them to slaughter and there's zero reason to grab them and just beat them on the ground till dead or kick the pigs till they broken bones.

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'The Jungle' by Upton Sinclair.

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Upton Sinclair

Where can i find this manga

@@drsimi9193 library or Amazon.

I bet we could make the jungle look like child's play nowadays

Have you read the paper from Human Rights Watch from 2004 about the working conditions in plants? Cause it is basically Sinclair's book all over again. We haven't moved a bit in over a hundred years and it is so frustrating and, quite frankly, infuriating.

The more things change...

True! It's been.. what? Almost a century? since "The Jungle", and here we still are

The funny thing about that book was that it was always about working conditions, to quote the man himself "I aimed for the people's hearts, and instead hit them in their stomachs."

@@alicegoldstein4957 The Jungle was published in 1906, so it's been well over a century

IT KEEPS HAPPENING

As a person who has been a corporation in the past, this is correct

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It seems reasonable to argue that signing a form with your teeth due to your hands being crushed moments before would qualify as signing under duress.

this one is a problem with the entire industry- they heavily use illegal immigrants because there’s an underlying threat that if they talk back or do anything other than what’s told, they will be fired and potentially deported. Then they hold poor and hungry in check through firing. These are often the only employers in town. They purposely locate in rural areas because the smell is so bad in and outside of these plants no one wants to live nearby and it’s less likely they will get people reporting them. It’s an evil industry. Specific to corporate meat packing and processing. Not necessarily mom and pop operations

they're all psycho dude

What we really need is One Big Union.

@@Meshakhad did I find a fellow wobbly?

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@@Meshakhad Comrade.. 🥺

Unions are a waste and just as corrupt

GOT points 🐉

When you’ve never watched the show, but you get the reference ❤️

They are the Lannisters with no Tyrion in sight

That’s the point

Nah, atleast the Lannisters always pay their debts.

Biggest red flag if you work at a corporation or start-up

Family? Standard cult explanation. Run!

Some real families, I'd add.
Though I could take those families not being considered real families, which is actually more like the whole corporation thing.

@@kurokasteele4830 - I was going to say, uh, my "famiily" would actually fit the Tyson definition real well.

For big companies though, a small town local company tho- totally could have a family vibe

@@tirsden
Aww, yeah. I hope things go as well as can be expected though.
Definitely a lot of real families that aren't _real families_ sadly.

Dam well said.

God that sounds awful

Ok good, now go plant based and stop funding this industry. Not to mention the horrendous, abusive and inhumane treatment of animals.

@@sepiks4250 if you care so much go to your senators, bozo

@@ryancols Yeah! We should definitely be urging our Senators to go vegan as well, what a great suggestion!

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"If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say" - Winston Zeddemore

Or his or her or they're habits, traditions, taste buds, laziness, misinformation, and/or cultural/family/peer influences. All the reasons people don't become or stay vegan, which would end this and a lot of other exploitation!

Where do you all work?

@@XVeganDaveGodFreeX Upton Sinclair wrote about the exploitation of the Meatpacking Industry almost a century ago. While turning everyone vegan would eliminate the Meatpacking Industry, it would not eliminate the same exploitative practices found in almost every other industry.
As a side note, while I think there are a lot of good reasons to go vegan, I'm going to keep eating meat just to spite you.

@@XVeganDaveGodFreeX The exploitations this story detailed are not created by people eating meat. They are created by not having proper, fair rules for an industry on how to treat the workers. Essentially unchecked capitalism.

No his is not.... his is just dumb...

@@fredericoeusebio9770 Says the one who cannot even speak/type English properly. Educate yourself before you insult others.

@@mainman879 That´s rude. Believe it or not, there are people out there who aren´t native english speakers. You're welcome to proofe me your mastery of the german language, but I´m not the one to judge your general intelligence, if you fail.

@@achimlichtenhagen3144 well frankly it’s kind of difficult not to laugh at the phrase “his is just dumb” regardless of whether it’s fair or not

@@achimlichtenhagen3144 Yes of course not everyone is a native speaker of the language. The point still stands that you should not make a fool of yourself while trying to insult someone else. All it does is make them look like a clown.

Go read Manufacturing Consent and you’ll know why that is.

That's cuz the News is Paid off by companies (All of them not just Fox, or CNN, all of them)

@@rescuerex7031 John gets most of his information from local newspapers, it's just that nobody reads them. He even did a segment on the dying journalism industry, you should check it out

@@shannondoyle3115 I was mostly talking bout the big names didn't make that clear enough apologies

@@rescuerex7031 oh sure, no worries, I just have too many people in my life who reject all forms of news :/

John Oliver is Spiderman?

It is all that remains