Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where men are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at all. After rumbling down a country road to an auction house, the cows are bought by a local rancher and then followed by The Associated Press another 600 miles to a Texas slaughterhouse that feeds into the supply chains of giants like McDonald’s, Walmart and Cargill…

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    it was absolutely sarcastic.

    the point I’m trying to make is that… prison labor is protected as the sole exception to slave labor in the US constitution. Prison labor has always been intended as a replacement for outright slavery.

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      10 months ago

      Ah okay, you’re not a conservative idiot, you’re a liberal who is very bad at conveying sarcasm. Carry on.

    • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      It’s hard to do sarcasm about conservatives. The shit they say is so much crazier then anything I’d think of to mock them