A union? Don't you know that unions demand union dues? Wouldn't you rather use that money to buy a video game? Buying a video game sounds much better than stopping amputations and deaths at work don't you agree?

That is fucking insane. I've seen places get $10k in fines for not putting labels on pipes. Those machine should have been shutdown and not allowed to run if the operators were exposed to amputation hazards. That inspector must have been in someone's pocket

That's from the government. You can demand (and usually get) a fairly large sum of money for a work related amputation (the amount varies on what is amputated. A toe is less expensive than an arm or an eye. I haven't looked at the tables in a while, but there are generally agreed upon amounts for each body part in actuarial tables).

There even have been two different human rights watch reports (In 2019 & 2005) on the meat industry working conditions, but it still doesn't get much press

Don't worry we're also giving workers horrible PTSD too

As time passes, you get used to it. You feel nothing. You can imagine, if you kill a thing a 1000 times over and over, you wouldn't have feelings after a while. It kills you on the inside, an abattoir, it kills you. You can be full of blood, it will not bother you

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4841092/

Because the news is filled with what Trump says and thinks 24/7

Capitalism + deregulation be like

Yep, more than just moldy bread, and more than just Smithfield

One of the more surprising ways plastics end up in the food system happens on livestock farms in a practice called garbage feeding. Legal in 27 states, the practice is shown in a 2022 video taken by a maintenance technician at a grain elevator owned by Smithfield, where bread in plastic wrappers was being processed into feed. The video went viral, and an executive from Smithfield responded to say most plastic is vacuumed out onsite. The technician disagreed, but there is no agency that inspects or oversees the process to tell for sure.

https://sentientmedia.org/how-microplastics-get-into-meat/

We Banana Republiced ourselves...

I took that to mean that many incidents across the entire industry in the country, rather than at a single location or even for a single corporation.

Talking about Rand right?

Idiotic. I read Atlas just to read it, interesting story, not realistic in any way. I do wish all billionaires would fuck off to their own island or mars so they can die there when they realize they have 0 actual skills beyond grifting.

Rand also died on welfare so yeah.