Fayette Janitorial LLC employed 15 children to clean dangerous equipment at a Perdue Farms plant in Virginia and nine to clean a Seaboard Triumph Foods pork plant in Iowa.
This kind of work puts a lot of emotional stress on adults, with slaughterhouses creating conditions for increased rates of drug abuse, domestic violence, violent crime, and suicide.
The inhuman cruelty towards workers in the industry is so widespread and unavoidable, above and beyond every other industry. In fact it was the child labor discoveries that started back in the pandemic that made it impossible for me to keep eating meat. The slaughter industry eats your soul.
This kind of work puts a lot of emotional stress on adults, with slaughterhouses creating conditions for increased rates of drug abuse, domestic violence, violent crime, and suicide.
What will it do to children?
Yeah, traumatic stress and chronic sleep deprivation isn’t good for anyone, but it’s really not good for people whose brains are still developing
The inhuman cruelty towards workers in the industry is so widespread and unavoidable, above and beyond every other industry. In fact it was the child labor discoveries that started back in the pandemic that made it impossible for me to keep eating meat. The slaughter industry eats your soul.
Its horrifying to even think about what kind of adults some of those kids will become because of having to work there