It turns out that Taylor Farms, the agricultural company widely believed to be behind the cyclospora outbreak currently raging throughout the US, is also heavily involved in modern-day forced labor.
In reporting from 2023 that was resurfaced this week on social media, the publication Prison Legal News revealed that Taylor Farms was contracting labor from the Arizona Department of Correction, Rehabilitation, and Reentry for the low, low price of just $4.75 an hour — far below the cost of a non-incarcerated worker the federal minimum wage. (And to be clear, that’s not the hourly wage paid to the inmate, which is capped at $1.50 in Arizona.)
And these indentured servants that get this news now know what it takes to shed some light on this bullshit. Just fuck things up in ways that will go public.
its fucking easy - just shit, piss and bleed over the produce at every opportunity.
Wait, do people actually think that’s what’s caused all this? That was a racist fox news conspiracy theory when it went around a few years back.
There are many diseases that can get transferred specifically by blood and feces. Those situations happen if you abuse your workers by overworking and underpaying them, while neglecting even their most basic needs like a damn toilet.
Doesn’t change the fact that fox only spread that info to rile people up without explaining the surrounding circumstances.
Guess the US is going to have to tariff itself.
I had deduced that from the fact that their workers are forced to shit in the field without adequate bathroom breaks. That’s the only way this could have gone down.
Taylor Farms was contracting labor from the Arizona Department of Correction, Rehabilitation, and Reentry for the low, low price of just $4.75 an hour — far below the cost of a non-incarcerated worker the federal minimum wage. (And to be clear, that’s not the hourly wage paid to the inmate, which is capped at $1.50 in Arizona.)
The state of Arizona makes more than twice the money controlling prisoners than the people doing the actual labor.
ACAB. All the way up and down the chain. It’s all slave catching shit.
