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    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

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      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.

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        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.

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        Gloves are usually made of animal skin or synthetic animal skin

        Meat processing machines are built to cut through skin and bone

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        dont ever wear gloves when working with rotating or moving saws. the gloves will force your hand into the saw.

        i am a regular guest on a clinic ward that specializes in hand surgery. people with severed fingers or half of a hand missing always tell me the same story: the glove forced my hand into the sawblade.

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          Hi, I’m, among other things, an industrial safety guy.

          It’s understandable not to know this, but I’m industry there’s a standard practice of locking out equipment that’s being maintained. Either by physically placing a lock on the power box or by simply putting the plug to the device in your pocket for smaller equipment. And then ensuring that all the energy in the equipment has been exhausted and that the machine cannot be started.

          This is the subject of one of many annual trainings for everyone in any given facility.

          When changing blades or cleaning equipment, it would be standard that it’s locked out during this process. So wearing gloves and presumably arm guards to protect against laceration when working with blades would be not only acceptable but I imagine expected.

          Most of us have seen the “lathe video.” We know.

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            Thanks for the insight in your profession. Yes, all what you said makes total sense. still, you don’t want to have a standart work glove when dealing with moving blades, in germany that’s also forbidden by security laws, out of the rasons I mentioned, maimed hands and so on. I must have met at least 8 - 10 people. but, yea, its a hand surgery facility.

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            yes, that makes sense, i failed to understandt this part, the glove thing only applies to moving blades and discgrinder, oh, dont forget lathes and drill presses.

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              But in general you are absolutely right. No gloves for work at rotating equipment

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

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        There are folks more upset about the Boarshead fiasco that are suggesting that more people should have read that book.

        Meaning that a lot of folks that did read it also didn’t absorb the message.

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        They hate this country so fucking much. We need to kick these people out of this country to make room for hard working refugees (not /s)

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    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.

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

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      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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        Close friend was a political and occasional music writer for Rolling Stone. Apparently they’re a mess as a business, invoices, etc

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Those kids are earning a Honest Living!

    -Republicans who think Drag Queens are DESTROYING our Youth!

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

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            Says who? Regardless, at least someone trying to reduce one’s dependancy on this shit is doing something rather than simply disregarding any attempts like you are.

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              can you show a causal link between being vegan and a decrease in child labor? my guess is that there is a general trend of increased child labor globally that tracks closely the rise in veganism.

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              at least someone trying to reduce one’s dependancy on this shit is doing something

              but i AM doing something. i bought a buss pass last month. it’s just as effective!

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      As if fruit and veg packing and processing plants are any better. As long as greedy humans are in charge people will be exploited as much as they possibly can regardless of what the industry is.

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        Exploitation of labor is a huge problem in many industries, but the amount of desensitizing horror and PTSD that occurs in slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants is on a whole different level.