In early November, the U.S. Department of Labor filed suit against industrial meatpacker JBS for hiring children as young as 13 to clean up bloody meatpacking plants in Minnesota and Nebraska.
the transformation of meat plants into disease epicenters as a sign of sectoral precariousness, even as meat companies reconfigured their COVID-exposed workplaces into another worker sacrifice zone:
The seeming shock of child labor at JBS plants in the United States, during a week when the world had its eyes turned to COP27 in Egypt andonly adds corporate insult to injury. The revelation underscores that like their U.S. counterparts, the “Batista Brothers” — Wesley and Joesley, owners of JBS — are fully engaged in exploiting their way towards the promised land of infinite growth on a finite planet, whatever the damage.
The Batistas only embody the nature of broader relations felt now across countries. The meat processing plants serve as crystallized centers of the capitalist mode of production, where diseases, hunger, environmental destruction and death are industrialized and shipped.
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