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[–] havokdj@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Alright, let's not pretend that today is somehow just as bad or worse than this when it comes to developed countries, but we still need to make changes.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What's bad is that even with the preponderance of historical evidence, there are still people who would absolutely return to these practices if the government let them. In many cases they do it anyway.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Child immigrants have been dying in meat plants left and right lol.

While they aren't as young as this stunted 10 year old, there are absolutely kids crawling through little spaces for family business or shoveling cow shit all over.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We're already doing it in the US. Republicans are pushing to repeal child labor laws. At the same time, multiple meat suppliers have been found using migrant children (as young as 11 IIRC) in dangerous jobs in their factories. This is at the same time that the greedy fucks are hiking prices on your groceries.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago

And those are just the known, publicized cases.