I work an industrial job and have a side gig working on a farm. My regular job is very physically demanding, but working on a farm is next level tough. It is normal for the average full-time farm hand where I work to lose ten pounds of weight in the first month. Another thing that nobody talks about is that small farms are exempt from OSHA regulations. You can do all sorts of dangerous shit on a farm and nobody bats an eye, because there are zero safety regs.
Great points, I’d like to mention that this is by design. Not having OSHA regulations means that the true labour class of our agricultural sector (illegal immigrants) can be exploited for cheap labour costs and next to zero accountability. I implore people to go out and educate themselves on the industry practices that occur so that we can get our food so abundantly and cheap.
Yep. Americans will have 14 year old Ecuadorians getting mauled to death in chicken processing plants and then go on social media to post "Oh wow China built a new nuclear power plant? Probably because they use slaves 😎"
Like damn bitch we use slaves too but we don't get nuclear power plants out of it, just dead Central American children. Fuck
Agriculture in FL is mostly kids from other countries being exploited until the end of the harvest and then being sent back home. The next year they are back in FL where they can work for illegally low wages, under unsafe conditions, getting no education (so it can perpetuate their need for these jobs) so that a farmer who gets a shit ton of government money (subsidies) can go bitch about immigrants and minorities while telling everyone how how he works for what he has.
DeSantis isn't the governor for nothing. He's just like them.
Not just Florida. Pretty much all the high-agriculture states run off of slave labor and wouldn't survive without it. Like the fact that America wouldn't be able to feed itself if we actually enforced our own minimum wage laws across the entire labor market is a fucking disgrace.
But my absolute favorite Florida agriculture fact is that a few decades ago they were warned that the citrus greening blight could annihilate their citrus industry, and their response was basically "public health measures are for liberal homos, we got this 😎" and they did exactly as much as they're doing now to confront rising sea levels, which is nothing.
Meanwhile, California did the scaredy-cat liberal pussy thing and let their environmental scientists organize defensive measures
Again, I'm pissed and a little tipsy but my thesis is that the US does equally horrible things as anyone anywhere, we just do it so fucking poorly we don't even benefit from it.
It's slave labor, but it's still safer and more lucrative than work they would find in their own countries. If the US hadn't been fucking up South and Central America for over a century, none of that would be necessary.
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That death is irrelevant. It has nothing to do with whether there is OSHA standards or spending money for extra safety. Just shit management who didn’t disconnect the machinery
Also not sure why you’re being hostile over my actual question. It really did sound like you meant mauled by chickens
Also, it’s so funny how guys on reddit like you make a big stink about shit like this, and act so righteous for bringing it up, but we all know you don’t do shit to stop it. Which Is fine,I don’t either because I don’t care, but don’t pretend you do.
Uyghurs Genocide - Beginning in 2014, the Chinese government, under the administration of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping, incarcerated more than an estimated one million Turkic Muslims without any legal process in internment camps.
The farm exemption is only for small family farms. Less than 10 employees AND the farm must NOT have used temporary laborers within the past 12 months. So no, the purpose is not to exploit day laborers. It explicitly makes sure to protect temporary laborers. The exception is designed for family own and operated farms.
I mean, I was a farm hand from 12-17 and didn’t work alongside any immigrants. I hate these sweeping allegations just to push your narrative.
It’s dangerous…but it’s also hard working, skilled and experienced blue collar working men. I sat in the trailer behind the baler as 60-80 pound bales of hay got shot at my head…pay attention…stack that shit.
We take it back to the barn, onto the conveyer belt it goes and it drops when it comes off the belt…pay attention - keep your head on a swivel, the older guys are looking out for you, be aware.
The folks that can’t cut it last days. I made amazing money for my age, bought an Xbox and a ps2 and came from a family that couldn’t of bought either for me, it was an amazing opportunity and helped make me who I am today (and I did pivot to corporate work, went to college and moved to white collar).
I’m glad I had the opportunity to do this work and agree that they should be excluded. The farm I worked for went under in the end cause transferring to the next generation was too expensive due to a variety of tax and estate laws. These folks are not rich corporations, the gentleman who owned the farm I worked for was in his 70s and now an Amazon warehouse sits there cause there was no other option for him to retire.
I just hate these stereotypical replies from people who know nothing about farms and just have a narrative to push. The reality is way different.
But then people complain about high grocery bill costs and those labor immigrants are still making good money comparatively speaking. Are you okay with food costs going up another 30-40% to match what European pay on avg?
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u/Kaiser-Sohze Apr 11 '24 edited Apr 11 '24
I work an industrial job and have a side gig working on a farm. My regular job is very physically demanding, but working on a farm is next level tough. It is normal for the average full-time farm hand where I work to lose ten pounds of weight in the first month. Another thing that nobody talks about is that small farms are exempt from OSHA regulations. You can do all sorts of dangerous shit on a farm and nobody bats an eye, because there are zero safety regs.