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.)
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.