A 16-year-old employee died Friday at a Mississippi chicken processing plant, a county official said. Mar-Jac Poultry said the teen died from injuries suffered in what it described as an “accident” in an emailed statement to CNN.
the thing about The Jungle was that we were supposed to read it and think "people need better working conditions" but a shockingly large number of people read it and thought "we need some sort of filtering system in place to keep all those immigrant thumbs out of the sausage"
You’re right, I hadn’t read that yet at the time I posted this.
Retraction: It appears that minors are not allowed to be working in meat processing plants, but that he was hired by an external staffing contractor who did not properly adhere to those restrictions.