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[–] [email protected] 140 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I used to work in a meat processing plant doing cleanup when I was about 16. It is a very dangerous job. You have to take machinery apart to clean it and if you are careless you can easily lose fingers/hands/arms/other appendages. My least favorite part of the job was cleaning the bandsaws. You have to take the the blade which is about 10 feet long out of the machine (it's razor sharp so on a good day you don't cut yourself very badly) and clean out what I can only call "meat sawdust" out of every nook and cranny of the machine. Then you have to feed the blade back into the saw. That was probably the least dangerous machine to clean. The meat grinders were also a pain in the ass because you have to remove a giant spiral cylinder with razor sharp edges, again very easy to lose at least a finger if you're not careful

I wouldn't ever want my child to be doing that job, or anyone else's

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not trying to have any gotcha moment or be deceptive but I am genuinely interested what made you go there and possible come back even to work more? Nothing else available and you needed the money maybe? Its OK if this is too personal a question to answer.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The owner was a family friend, and I was a teenager trying to save money for a car. I think I lasted most of the summer before I quit.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Thanks for your reply! Glad to hear you actually quit that job.

[–] Wogi 22 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Did they not give you fucking gloves?

[–] VonCesaw 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Gloves are usually made of animal skin or synthetic animal skin

Meat processing machines are built to cut through skin and bone

[–] Wogi 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They make cut resistant gloves specifically for working with things that are meant to cut through skin and bone. I'm wearing a pair as I type this. A3 cut protection has worked on all the band saw blades I've changed.

[–] EvacuateSoul 17 points 2 months ago

Why do you wear them to type? Do you use a RAZR?

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[–] captainlezbian 15 points 2 months ago

They make chainmail gauntlets for shit like this

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

That sounds like an environment from childhood nightmares I wish had stayed forgotten

[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We really should have made The Jungle required reading

[–] nul9o9 48 points 2 months ago

That's the book that came to mind when the Supreme Court ruled against federal agencies.

[–] big_slap 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

the people who need to read and understand that book will not absorb the message

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Teen Vogue really on some shit lately.

Between them and Rolling Stone the last few years...

"Well guys, looks like the grey lady is doing a 1935 again, so Jackson, I'm gonna need you to pivot from writing relationship quizzes to the child labor beat. Ada, Frank, can you handle best makeup tutorials and genocide? Allison, I know you're on concert reviews, how would you feel about also picking up the investigation on coal coke emissions?"

Fucking good on them, I'm sure that there have always been people doing good work at these publications, but it seems like they've had to really expand their purview recently to cover these giant gaps.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They've been publishing serious political pieces for nearly a decade now, 2016 election and a new editor was the shift.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

They must be the last bigger outlets that have independent income are not owned by some billionaire lobby.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

From what I can see I'd definitely rank Teen Vogue above Rolling Stone, although both are still editorial to some degree. Teen Vogue's headlines aren't as incendiary.

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[–] roguetrick 56 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Dinosaur chicken nuggets: made by kids for kids.

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[–] negativenull 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

But they yearn for it /s

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're saying kids are packing my mea....

Nevermind.

[–] NatakuNox 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also, if you think a child will ever clean something well enough to process food!? US food production is disgusting.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So you think a low payed adult worker will either?

Ain't none of you people ever been inside a packing plant have you?

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[–] IzzyScissor 18 points 2 months ago

Everyone should read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

It was written almost 120 years ago, and shows just how horrendous these working conditions used to be before the FDA existed. Everyone who wants to cripple the ability of the FDA to regulate these plants wants those kinds of inhumane working conditions back.

It has a socialist message in the second half, but remember - socialism doesn't replace democracy. Socialism replaces Capitalism.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

~~What, I thought it was the illegal immigrants taking all the jobs.~~. Nevermind, I read the article and it's migrant kids they're talking about.

[–] aloeTGL 11 points 2 months ago

And don’t get me started on the white trash managers and supervisors in those places. Literally run by some strange asshole thug druggie meth types. Oscar Mayer plant in west/southern Illinois is absolutely crazy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Those kids are earning a Honest Living!

-Republicans who think Drag Queens are DESTROYING our Youth!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

It's almost like exploiting and killing sentient beings is something we shouldn't be doing at all... 🤔

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