One thing I like about living in Mexico is I'm always in a "village"... even in my city of 18 million. My building, my street, my neighborhood... hell, my fellow passengers on the Metro car or at the corner cafe ... are my fellow villagers. Sure, there are the village cranks and oddballs (maybe I'm the one in my building) but we all take joint responsiblity for our temporary community. You don't hear of people screaming at shop keepers about "MY RIGHT TO GO UNMASKED" or whatever... just... not... done. My rights are constrained by my duties to my community, however small that community might be at the moment.
I bet there are a lot of child labor violations in Florida, especially in agriculture where federal child labor laws are already more lax than in other types of jobs. With parental consent children as young as 12 can work in the fields with little to no monitoring about work around school hours and probably little monitoring of hourly pay to children. So a 12 year old can end up working over 40 hours a week year round and likely getting little pay, with even that going to a parent. While children are not supposed to operate dangerous equipment or work in hazardous areas, there is no monitoring for work around dangerous chemicals used in agriculture. Chemicals that may be dangerous to adults but even more dangerous to growing children. Unfortunately children are sometimes forced to work such jobs because their parents do not make enough working seasonal jobs without help from their 14 year old son.
I just read the Times article all the way through.
It's heartbreaking and infuriating. People are exploiting desperate children, and we're allowing it.
I just retired from a career in covering the food industry, and I wish to fuck I had uncovered this situation. It's not just an abstract thing. There are personal aspects to this story that I don't even want to talk about, but they're upsetting me right now.
Yeah, if enough shareholders get in their face they'll...offer a share split followed by a stock buyback, making all those shareholders filthy fucking richer. And that will be the end of that.
DeSantis is probably all for this- 1. Increase profits for his friends who are employing kids/undocumented immigrants and 2. Kids who are working 40+ hours a week don't have time to read!
One thing I like about living in Mexico is I'm always in a "village"... even in my city of 18 million. My building, my street, my neighborhood... hell, my fellow passengers on the Metro car or at the corner cafe ... are my fellow villagers. Sure, there are the village cranks and oddballs (maybe I'm the one in my building) but we all take joint responsiblity for our temporary community. You don't hear of people screaming at shop keepers about "MY RIGHT TO GO UNMASKED" or whatever... just... not... done. My rights are constrained by my duties to my community, however small that community might be at the moment.
You mean like farm workers carrying the baby on their back?
I bet there are a lot of child labor violations in Florida, especially in agriculture where federal child labor laws are already more lax than in other types of jobs. With parental consent children as young as 12 can work in the fields with little to no monitoring about work around school hours and probably little monitoring of hourly pay to children. So a 12 year old can end up working over 40 hours a week year round and likely getting little pay, with even that going to a parent. While children are not supposed to operate dangerous equipment or work in hazardous areas, there is no monitoring for work around dangerous chemicals used in agriculture. Chemicals that may be dangerous to adults but even more dangerous to growing children. Unfortunately children are sometimes forced to work such jobs because their parents do not make enough working seasonal jobs without help from their 14 year old son.
Of course not. We need to fix that.
I *love* that, and I really wish we had the same sentiment here. <3 <3 <3 <3
No. Farm workers going to work, knowing tbat their kids are working in a meat-packing plant.
I'm totally horrified. Ta, Dok. What to do? You can start by not eating corporate food. There are other, better ways to live.
I just read the Times article all the way through.
It's heartbreaking and infuriating. People are exploiting desperate children, and we're allowing it.
I just retired from a career in covering the food industry, and I wish to fuck I had uncovered this situation. It's not just an abstract thing. There are personal aspects to this story that I don't even want to talk about, but they're upsetting me right now.
Yeah, if enough shareholders get in their face they'll...offer a share split followed by a stock buyback, making all those shareholders filthy fucking richer. And that will be the end of that.
Just got done reading the full NYT article. Pardon me while I scream into the abyss until my throat bleeds. And then scream some more.
This surely can't be happening in Florida where Ron DeSantis is the lethargic strong man.
If only DeSantis knew!
About three seconds.
DeSantis is probably all for this- 1. Increase profits for his friends who are employing kids/undocumented immigrants and 2. Kids who are working 40+ hours a week don't have time to read!
They are on their way to a diner in Ohio as we speak
They always wanted immigrants for cheap labor, they just get the base riled up about them so when they get here they are scared and can be exploited.
Nope.