Animal Rights Violations Beget Human Rights Violations
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Yet another link between animal exploitation (aka meat production) and human exploitation:
“Since the late 1970s, Henry’s Turkey Service has been shipping mentally retarded men from Texas to Iowa to work in the West Liberty plant. Henry’s has acted as the workers’ employer, landlord and caregiver — paying the men a reduced wage for their work at the plant and then deducting from their pay the cost of room, board and care. Payroll records indicate the men are left with as little as $65 per month in salary.” [...]
“Mary Etta Lane, a Missouri mental-health advocate who investigated Henry’s when she worked in Iowa during the 1980s, said she is discouraged that over the past 30 years so little progress has been made in caring for the mentally disabled.”
“‘These are real people, the same as you and me,’ she said. ‘Why do they have to live in an old schoolhouse and go to work every day in a meat-processing plant? You know, this is the heartland. We’re supposed to have some values.’”
Read the whole, sad story here >>
More examples of the link between animal exploitation and human exploitation:
- Dying for a job (video)
- 45% of pig farm workers in Iowa and Illinois have MRSA
- increases in agricultural workers’ risks of disease
- A Violent Vocation
- Slaughterhouse Uses Child Labor
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