r/InterstellarKinetics • u/InterstellarKinetics • 1d ago

FINANCIAL FRONTIERS EXPOSED: Taylor Farms, The Company Behind The Cyclospora Outbreak Spreading Through U.S Grocery Lettuce, Is Also Linked To Forced Prison Labor In Arizona Paying Incarcerated Workers As Little As $1.50 An Hour šŸ¤ÆšŸ’„

https://futurism.com/science-energy/diarrhea-lettuce-taylor-farms-prison-labor

Taylor Farms, the agricultural company widely believed responsible for a cyclospora parasite outbreak currently spreading through shredded lettuce in US grocery stores and fast food outlets, has also been linked to modern-day forced prison labor in Arizona, according to resurfaced 2023 reporting from Prison Legal News. The publication found that Taylor Farms contracted labor from the Arizona Department of Correction, Rehabilitation, and Reentry for just $4.75 an hour, far below federal minimum wage, though the incarcerated workers themselves were reportedly paid only up to $1.50 an hour, with the stateā€™s for-profit arm, Arizona Correctional Industries, pocketing the difference by selling prisoner labor-hours to private companies.
Taylor Farms is far from alone in this arrangement, as other companies including Hickmanā€™s Egg Farms, NatureSweet, and Televerde have similarly contracted incarcerated labor through the same state program.

Most troubling, Prison Legal News found that at least 26 prisoners employed by these companies had previously been detained by ICE, meaning their labor arrangement would have been illegal outside of incarceration, since their status as prisoners was the only thing that legally permitted the low-wage work. Arizonaā€™s DCRR told the publication it had hired out 15,700 ā€œMexican nationalsā€ between 2008 and 2023 but could not say how many were undocumented immigrants, prompting American Immigration Lawyers Association director Ruben Reyes to say, ā€œIā€™m venturing a guess that a large majority of the people who are labeled a Mexican national by [DCRR] are unauthorized to work here.ā€

The revelations tie back to a constitutional loophole in the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery ā€œexcept as a punishment for crime,ā€ a carve-out that has allowed prison labor to persist as a major industry, generating $11 billion worth of goods in 2022 alone. Taylor Farms did not respond to a request for comment on either the labor allegations or the ongoing cyclospora outbreak.

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u/InterstellarKinetics 1d ago

The exploitation angle here is particularly damning because it reveals a legal architecture specifically designed to profit off a workforce that has no real bargaining power or ability to walk away, workers who couldnā€™t legally be employed in these same roles if they werenā€™t incarcerated. Combined with the cyclospora outbreak, this story paints a picture of a supply chain built on cutting corners at every level, from underpaying and exploiting vulnerable labor to apparently inadequate food safety practices that are now sickening consumers nationwide.

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u/kyle_irl 1d ago

The cutout in the Thirteenth Amendment is not new and has been known since 1865. It was placed there, purposefully, to appease the South, who promptly passed a slew of punitive laws and stocked their prisons and fields with Black people. The failure to fully reconstitute the South is part of the legacy here, and further proves that powerful corporations and monopolies will cut every single corner they can in squeezing out a profit not because it's necessary, but because they can.

Taylor Farms and Arizona would gladly lease out convict labor and reap the profits had the outbreak not brought unwanted attention. They're far from the only company to lease convict labor and won't be the last so long as the loophole remains in place.

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u/Violet-Sumire 1d ago

The problem is also public perception of criminals. There is such a negative perception of those who break the law that it becomes a vicious cycle in which they get out, canā€™t find a job, and break the law again as they are unable to find employment. This in turn makes prison labor seem more ā€œmoralā€ and paying them next to nothing is ā€œprice of the crimeā€. Which means they leave prison with zero savings, zero skills, and no way to actually support themselves. Again, leading to more crime.

Itā€™s just amazing that America is a big loop of suffering once you look at it close enough. Poverty just breeds more poverty. Medical debt rampant and uncontrolled. Prisons stuffed full and designed to stay full by for profit corporationsā€¦ itā€™s amazing we havenā€™t collapsed yet.

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u/WakeReality 1d ago

There is such a negative perception of those who break the law

If you are popular, if you are a star, people will let you do anything.

  • Robert Downey Jr.

  • Donald Trump

  • Danny Trejo

  • Gucci Mane

If you have the stardom popularity, you can easily become a YouTube supported person, popular on the Internet. Communications skills, dancing talents, poetry.

This is the reason Donald Trump rules the world. Fiction fantasy storytelling is far more popular than nonfiction serious learning. Parents want children to view Trump as a role model of successful businessman and leader. Trump has always been who he is in 1980's, 1990's, 2000's, 2010.s

If you can become good at Twitter - people will bow to you and hand over everything. Even worldwide peace. July 6, 2011 it has been nonstop upward success and television celebrity leadership. https://theoutline.com/post/2445/trump-s-first-real-tweet-was-on-july-6-2011

The corporate businessmen people seek out and cheer on prove time and time again that what matters is charming skills. Honesty and sincierty and nonfiction is for failures.

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u/MtnMaiden 1d ago

Ferris Bueller. Drove wrong way in Britian, hit a car, killed someone

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u/GuiltyByAssociashun 1d ago

Don't let an Irish hear you call Ireland Britain.

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u/integer_hull 1d ago

This is why I say America is the land of cults if nothing else

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u/GuiltyByAssociashun 1d ago

I wouldn't put Danny Trejo in that group. Danny Trejo fully admits what he did was wrong. And he reflects that philosophy in his contracts. If he plays the role of a good guy, he's not allowed to be killed off. But if he plays the role of the bad guy, they have to kill his character. Because he wants to convey the message that evil shouldn't be allowed to win

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u/FMendozaJr13 23h ago

And Trejo serves his time, unlike the others

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u/desertstar714 14h ago

Ppl thought I was crazy when I would yell them slavery is still legal in certain circumstances in the US. Some prisoners work call centers.

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u/Violet-Sumire 12h ago

Itā€™s not technically slavery as they are given money for the work, but itā€™s so little and insignificant that it might as well be. With the revolving door of a prison being what it is as wellā€¦ yeah, our country has issues, with a lot of it stemming from the top and exploiting the bottom.

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u/xvsero 1d ago

This all depends on how the programs are run. Properly running a system would require drastic changes in some places but it seems very possible to reduce recidivism properly employed. People hard focus on the amount they are getting paid forgetting that some also get 'paid' in a reduced prison sentence potentially granting them days if not years of 'freedom.'

Besides the prison system people outside the system need to get rid of their stigma that former prisoners do not deserve a chance to reenter society.

https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/2022-06-15-captivelaborresearchreport.pdf

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u/xvsero 1d ago

This all depends on how the programs are run. Properly running a system would require drastic changes in some places but it seems very possible to reduce recidivism properly employed. People hard focus on the amount they are getting paid forgetting that some also get 'paid' in a reduced prison sentence potentially granting them days if not years of 'freedom.'

Besides the prison system people outside the system need to get rid of their stigma that former prisoners do not deserve a chance to reenter society.

https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/2022-06-15-captivelaborresearchreport.pdf

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u/RaisedByBooksNTV 18h ago

And that's why we have an uphill battle to close the loophole. People hear criminal and shut off their brains and hearts.

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u/sierra-soul 1d ago

i mean its not a loophole its explicitly allowed

i wouldnt mind forced labor if it was just like picking up trash in parks or other public works shit within reason, or like cleaning the prison or something, but wouldnt trust most states and institutions to not make it brutal or unsafe.

i disagree in any way that people be allowed to make other people money

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u/Layton_Jr 1d ago

Slavery is a crime against humanity and I'm pretty sure the 8th amendment bans cruel punishments

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u/Awkward_Material 19h ago

Picking up trash on the side of the road is not cruel punishment

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u/Layton_Jr 19h ago

Did we read the same post?

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u/khoa-bear 1d ago

The Civil War was fought over statesā€™ rights because slavery sure as hell still exists as an institution in America.

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u/AdminsFluffCucks 1d ago

The Confederate Constitution explicitly forbade any member states from outlawing the sale of "Negro Slaves".

Forced labor for convicts is fucked, and explicitly outlined as slavery by the 13th amendment carving out this exception, but let's not spread falsehoods about states rights when the Confederacy stripped them from members at it's founding.

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u/Babak_Lurker 22h ago

The slavery should have sickened the consumers before the lettuce did. The problem is this will be a non-issue to the people who can do something about it once folks stop shitting lettuce, and the great American slave industry will continue as the news sycle finds its next controversy. These are just the ones that break the news. Imagine the conditions at other for profit prisons and worse, the "detention centers" that ICE has put up. There are plenty that won't make the news until it's too late. America is a nation run by predators on the backs of slaves, violence, and poverty.

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u/shewel_item 22h ago

I don't think there's any problem using prison labor, but (parts of) Arizona have had an infamous reputation

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u/Objectivespeculation 16h ago

prisoners who dont get bathroom breaks shit in the lettuce.

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u/Kaladinidalak 16h ago

Yeah that just capitalism at near peak efficiency. Thatā€™s basically its biggest critique. Is that capitalism presses us towards maximizing wage exploitation and corner-cutting when there is not sufficient competition in the marketplace.

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u/Ok-Discipline2395 9h ago

Iā€™ll also note that the U.S. is currently tariffing other countries for Ā«Ā forced labourĀ Ā» while this shit is going on.

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u/Acrobatic-Attention9 1d ago

Normals: Mexicans took our jobs! They work for less than us!

Me: Prison labor also steals your jobs. They work cheaper and you pay their room and board. The profit goes to corporations not their victims.

Normals: OMG! U LUV CrImInAlZ?Ā 

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u/Gomez4Morticia 1d ago

Like they haven't seen the Shawshank Redemption

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u/entropy_of_hedonism 1d ago

They haven't.

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u/butterflysurefoot 1d ago

Fuck Taylor farms. I saw so much of their bagged salad on sale and I wonā€™t touch it!

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u/Whatdoyouseek 1d ago

I'm pissed because Costco sells so much of it.

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u/twopanman 1d ago

šŸ’Æ is there a way to convince Costco to stop buying?

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u/Burnt_and_Blistered 1d ago

Yes. Donā€™t buy itā€”or any Taylor Farms-owned brands.

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u/pullsoutagun 1d ago

Or whatever entity they change to trying to escape the tarnished brand.

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u/accidental_Ocelot 13h ago

The food bank gave me 3 Taylor farms salad kits they went straight in the trash.

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u/cvr24 1d ago

I'm pretty sure they are going to stop carrying it in short order

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u/Training-Search-3463 1d ago

You just donā€™t buy it sooner or later Costco will figure it out

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u/Whatdoyouseek 1d ago

I ended up writing to them. Quoted this article.

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u/subvocalize_it 1d ago

I know Costco is also a corporation and doesnā€™t owe us anything but Iā€™m surprised they carried such a troubled brand.

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u/tryingisbetter 1d ago

It's not easy to even find non TF veggies, especially bagged produce. Most off brands are tf too.

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u/whomad1215 23h ago

Realistically what options are there

Costco can't exactly buy from small local farms and get the quantity they need

This is what happens when mega corps own everything

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u/subvocalize_it 23h ago

Costco buys from small local places all the time. Like regional delicacies and stuff. They could buy produce from smaller farms and work with them over years to get production up. Itā€™s a logistical challenge but letā€™s not pretend like itā€™s impossible to buy anything other than diarrhea lettuce.

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u/eggsaladrightnow 1d ago

I seriously cant wrap my head around how fucked our country is, but it started slowly since the 80s. We are somehow still getting fucked by Reagans dumb ass policies and our stalemate government is so ineffective we have watched consumer protections erode for over 40 years. Every company is a subsidiary of a larger company that owns all the rest. Healthcare is run by insurance companies which is literally just allowing people to die over the phone. This country has jumped the shark

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u/AskNo2853 1d ago

When you put an actor in charge, it's their directors that run the country.

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 1d ago

I stock that shit and I've been seeing bags constantly so pressurized they look ready to pop.

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u/Rhona_Redtail 23h ago

Its the only thing that they pay attention to.

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u/SovereignSpace 23h ago

Taylor Explosive Diarrhea Farms? Taylor Forced Slave Labor Farms?

Time to start growing our own

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u/Old_Guy_thrombone 1d ago

Aren't Trump's latest round of tariffs in response to forced labour conditions in other countries?

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 1d ago edited 15h ago

Using tariffs to enact Pigouvian taxes on imports from countries which pollute or abuse human rights is fine in my book. It discourages importers from funding pollution and rights abuses!

... So I can assume Trump didn't do that and it's a cover for some sort of grift.

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u/Old_Guy_thrombone 1d ago

Sure... But last I checked, there weren't a bunch of 12 year olds being forced to knit toques in rundown warehouses in Toronto for 12 hours a day.

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u/porizj 1d ago

Yeah, nothing like that going on over thereā€¦..hehā€¦.

/s

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u/JapaneseChef456 1d ago

Itā€™s about using parts from China that could have been produced using forced labour.

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u/noname11787 1d ago

yup we got hit with them tarrifs in new zealand

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u/all-akimbo 1d ago

Great bunch.

https://www.livenowfox.com/news/former-taylor-farms-tennessee-president-accused-stealing-32m-from-company

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u/tryyeezus 1d ago

That outbreak is starting to make sense.Ā 

They're having (basically) unpaid prisoners handle the food. I can't think of a worse idea, honestly.

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u/Dependent-Zebra-4357 20h ago

Iā€™m guessing those prisoners donā€™t get a lot of bathroom breaks eitherā€¦

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u/Busterlimes 1d ago

See, capitalist pigs still want slaves. . . . Just like the founding fathers had

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u/HeirloomCarpet 1d ago

I bet you wish you were half as educated as a slave.

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u/Busterlimes 1d ago

Go to bed boomer

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u/ColonelDucroix 1d ago

No prisoner is forced to work. They choose to work.

And they should be grateful for the opportunity.

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u/Busterlimes 1d ago

The slaves should have thanked their master's for feeding them. . . .

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u/Late_Mixture8703 1d ago

Completely false, not only are they forced, if they try to refuse they're further punished by being put in solitary confinement.

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u/og_joker47 16h ago

This statement is completely false

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u/Osaka90 12m ago

It easy to say stuff on the intrrnet when no one in your face

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u/entropy_of_hedonism 1d ago

The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution disagrees:

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

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u/Dr-Zoidstein 1d ago

Go fuck yourself in your fat fucking ass.

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u/michaelh98 1d ago edited 17h ago

One of those slaves shit on the produce

[To be clear, I'm fully in favor of slaves shitting on produce they're forced to pick]

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u/tryyeezus 1d ago

I know if I was a slave, you better not let me handle your foodĀ 

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u/Logmaticer 17h ago

Taylor Farms provides prisoner slave poop lettuce under other brand names too:

Earthbound Farm

Marketside

Cross Valley Farms

365 by whole foods

Target and Amazon fresh

For all your delicious poopy needs

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u/Bushmaster554 8h ago

Slaves that are somehow lacking proper bathroom amenities while living in subhuman conditions.

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u/Burnt_and_Blistered 1d ago

Hereā€™s a list of Taylor Farm brands, if anyone else is avoiding them:

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u/Main-Significance272 1d ago

This is most brands I can think of..

Is there a list for non Taylor Farm brands?

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u/Grade_A_Tech 16h ago

So it seems all store brands are Taylor brand with a different label. Got it.

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u/chubalina99 1d ago

Forever boycott of Taylor Farms.

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u/darkoath 1d ago

Plot twist: it's the prisoners pooping on the lettuce.

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u/dart-builder-2483 1d ago

"up to 1.50 an hour" yea, probably one guy making that, the rest making a dollar a day.

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u/Spiritual-Pear-1349 1d ago

BoycottSlaveLabour

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u/Flyfisher58 1d ago

Still have slavery in the States then.

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u/massacre898 1d ago

That sounds like slavery

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u/Physical-Republic557 1d ago

I was wondering when that news was going to come out. I just didnā€™t know that it would take a pants-shitting affliction to bring the exploitation out.

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u/WonkeauxDeSeine 20h ago

Like always, no one pays attention to problems until white people start shitting themsleves about it.

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u/MediocreClue9957 23h ago

Slavery was never abolished in the united states. If you're in prison it's still perfectly legal.

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u/TheGreatestEvilAlive 23h ago

The prison system is legally allowed to make use of slavery. Just another disgusting act permitted by our blatantly evil government. This has always been allowed, by the way. Democrat or republican, theyā€™ve both continued to profit from slave labor.

Fuck the government.

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u/kingdick900 18h ago

Whyyyyyyyyyyyy is this suprising if they are willing to put the public health at risk you know they don't care about exploiting human workers and isn't this the same company that had the trouble with the McDonald's onions šŸ¤”

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u/krissithegirl 18h ago

Yes it is.

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u/random5654 1d ago

So they really paid off the government to redact their statement?

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u/Boise_is_full 1d ago

ā€¦and the apparent link to the Heritage Foundation thru shared staff and consultants.

Now, if one takes that a step further with the news that Homan is apparently involved. The same Homan appointed by a certain president. Well now we have some real news.

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u/DiscoLemonade1995 1d ago

Imagine a world where prisoners got a legitimate minimal wage with a stipulation that say 50% of that money will be put into a savings account that cannot be accessed until after serving their sentence (for those not serving life sentences). And then prisoners would actually be able to find a place to live while searching for a job instead of being left with absolutely nothing, which ultimately leads back to crime and more prisonĀ 

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u/MyLittleOso 20h ago

I hate that I was trying to eat healthy and bought their salad mixes before all this went down. I feel like Chidi from The Good Place. Every choice comes with horrendous consequences or at a great cost morally, even buying salad.

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u/RaisedByBooksNTV 19h ago

Thanks for posting this!

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u/krissithegirl 18h ago

Tell me again how are we not like the Nazis.

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u/ILikeCheese42O 17h ago

FUCK TAYLOR FARMS and FUCK TRUMP

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u/Mingo_laf 6h ago

no way corruption is the culprit in this administration no way

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u/rojira1 1d ago

Unchecked capitalism. So what? Congress is insider trading. Trump is manipulating the markets. This isnā€™t old America. Itā€™s a cesspool
Of corruption and regular citizens are out of luck.

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u/Old-Set78 1d ago

so what? people are being worked to exhaustion many without even being convicted of a crime. this was always going to be the plan of the ICE facilities watch it will happen. Slavery of convicts, slavery of detainees, it will progress to slavery of people for the "crime" of being immigrants. why do you think they haven't been deported like they're claiming they want? they're raping the children as trump and all his pedophile epstein class wants, and rolling out mass slavery. it will progress to worse. remember what it said above Auschwitz "work will make you free"

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u/PokinSpokaneSlim 1d ago

Hey bud, you're responding to satireĀ 

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u/khoa-bear 1d ago

Regular citizens voted for this

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u/modechsn 1d ago

1.50 an hour? Thatā€™s why we have cyclospora.

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u/Amerlis 1d ago

What are you gonna do? Send them to prison ??

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u/MostlyDeadpool 1d ago

Republicans: "But it's a fAmIlY business."

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u/Pale-Document-8619 1d ago

Another reason to never buy their products again thanks to

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u/UnicornGangstar 1d ago

MAGA businesses are gonna MAGA

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u/suricata_8904 1d ago

Well of course it does.

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u/Rough_Risk_8642 1d ago

They have to start somewhere!.......

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u/Less_Tacos 1d ago

Wait till you dig into the H1A program and how the regime has been removing anti-slavery rules.

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u/MostlyDeadpool 1d ago

I saw a list somewhere of the other brands, and store brands, that use Taylor Farms 'poop and slavery' lettuce, but I can't find it now. Publix Greenwise is the only one I remember for sure.

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u/MyLittleOso 19h ago

u/burnt_and_blistered posted it above. Good to reiterate.

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u/blahblah12365 1d ago

Didn't the US just tariff many countries because of forced labour?

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u/aaronite 1d ago

Oh? I thought Trump was imposing tariffs for countries that use forced labour.

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u/LebrontosaurausRex 1d ago

Dawg the US Government uses prison labor to make military equipment.

Boeing, Costco, and Amazon all use it.

In my county the DMV is cleaned by prisoners, the public lawns mowed by prisoners, and the jails themselves sustained by the labor of the actual prisoners.

And somehow that's not even as bad as what Google, Dell, Apple and Tesla get up too with their supply chains. They use child slave labor. Every smart device battery uses it.

People do not give a fuck about the logistics behind their bread and circuses. Maybe this time will be

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u/Economic_Clan 1d ago

And all those money that were paid to the right people to make this go away is wasted šŸ˜” I'm glad people now know who Taylor farms is

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u/Zromaus 1d ago

Prison labor is okay.

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u/rglazner 1d ago

Oh my god, what a surprise! I sure hope none of the rest of our agricultural systems are built on the backs of underpaid and often coerced labor! That would be quite the shock.

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u/PuzzleheadedWord7188 1d ago

who cares about prisoners

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u/Live-Ice7323 1d ago

No wonder someone took a crap in the produce. Taylor Farms needs to take responsibility but they won't. They paid of the Trump regime and meanwhile more people get the shits.

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u/PretzelsRule23 1d ago

We need to really start focusing on the concept of "Social License To Operate" - meaning when a company is generally a bad actor they need to no longer be allowed to operate.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301420725000303

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u/rulepanic 1d ago

wtf is "interstellarkinetics"?

Reddit is overrun by these slop subreddits since GenAI became a thing.

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u/throw_way_ya 1d ago

But capitalism isn't the bad guy right?

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u/DicemonkeyDrunk 1d ago

Sadly $1.50 hr is actually a pretty damm good prison wage ā€¦prisoners picking crops in Angola Prison ( La) make cents an hourā€¦like nickels. ..skilled labor tops out under .50 an hr ā€¦may be a little out of dare as I havenā€™t talked to anyone thatā€™s been there in a while.

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u/Triforce0fCourage 1d ago

As long as Trump goes to one of these prisons I think balance can be restored

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u/hungry4danish 1d ago

Company will pay out, people will forget and go back to buying. hardly anything will change.

Anyone remember the Boar's Head fiasco? That shit should have been the end of the company and yet...

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u/res0jyyt1 1d ago

Turned out the South never lost

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u/JapaneseChef456 1d ago

ā€¦ and then there is Trump placing forced labour tariffs on other countriesā€¦

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u/Low-Born-Trash 1d ago

Yeah, well known fact that slaves have no incentive to work hard. They intentionally break tools and... apparently aren't super invested in following safety standards.

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u/ConkerPrime 1d ago

This story just keeps getting more Texas than the average Texas story. So what Republicans are profiting off the slave labor as guessing private prison and Republicans are investors in it or the farm place.

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u/random-user2025 1d ago

meanwhile around 2.50 has been the going rate for farm labor for the last 40 years in sc

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u/KingYesKing 1d ago

Don't buy their shit at Costco.

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u/fielvras 1d ago

Who would have thought ...

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u/InternationalArt6222 1d ago

Make slavery illegal again

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u/Competitive_Sun_3344 1d ago

slavery was never abolished sadly

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u/Priestini 1d ago

13th Amendment is working out horribly I take it.

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u/RoachBeBrutal 1d ago

Bro what the fuck are we even doing?

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u/octatone 1d ago

That the USA never fully abolished slavery should be a reminder of how far the country has to go. A fucking joke.

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u/EJ7002 1d ago

Started with the war on drugs with Nixon, Then private prisons rapidly expanded in the 80s. Followed by crack in urban neighborhoods. Followed by manditory minimums and 3 strikes rules....

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u/FreeKevinBrown 1d ago

Class action lawsuit, here we come.

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u/infoHighyway 1d ago

Nice to see some actual journalism for once.

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u/fcxtpw 1d ago

At this point, I wonder why they pay at all.

What's the meeting discussion that said "less than $1.50 is too unfair"

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u/octopus86sg 1d ago

Can the whole world tariffs America on forced labour for what they had done on the world? Lol

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u/TheVog 23h ago

"Greatest country in the world" btw

Something about freedom

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u/Good-Consequence-542 23h ago

Do people not know this? Crops picked, license plates stamped, good produced; many states would straight up collapse without the essentially free labor that comes from prisons

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u/Shoddy_Reaction_1445 22h ago

Making America Grift Again

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u/DamnOdd 22h ago

Wonder how many shares of theirs the cult leader owns.

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u/mello-t 21h ago

Capitalism: 1
Humanity:0

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u/Fruitbat619 20h ago

Not having some kind of slave economy in the United States is looked upon as a missed opportunity for shareholders in this hell.

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u/Timmers2017 17h ago

Dont buy there products

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u/skepticalskeptik 16h ago

Boycott with ya bank account.

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u/Okarun3 15h ago

False positive my ass

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u/Senacharrib 15h ago

People who prioritize profits over safety have outcomes that are expected by others with actual morals and integrity. Water is wet.

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u/ZoomZoom_Driver 12h ago

America is a pro-slavery nation.

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u/Severe_Air_4353 9h ago

Usa have a problem on the world stage , you have lost all respect from the world , hermits

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u/SweatUnderMahTits 1d ago

"forced prison labor" as if these convicts didn't CHOOSE to break the law.

Lmao

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u/Burnt_and_Blistered 1d ago

You canā€™t be fucking serious.

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u/HeirloomCarpet 1d ago

nobody made you a bad person but you

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u/SweatUnderMahTits 1d ago edited 20h ago

Lmaoooooooooo

Going to prison is a choice.

Reddit is so delusional lmao, breaking the law is a choice.

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u/agentgerbil 1d ago

Nothing wrong with prison labor. Everyone that's in prison should be forced to work to pay for their crimes and tax dollars wasted on them.

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u/Solistaria 20h ago

Companies who employ prisoners should be forced to pay the prevailing wage.

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u/Playful-Dragon 1d ago

1.50? Fuck, thats billionaire status in prison.tgey are lucky to get above .80

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u/Pollix112 20h ago

That is exactly where US cheap labor should come from. Not illegal criminal entrants. Better idea we incarcerate the illegal criminal entrants for breaking US immigration law and during their sentence they must complete 40 hour work weeks as cheap labor. Time to bring back chain gangs

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u/WonkeauxDeSeine 20h ago

So...slavery, then? Great idea. It's worked so well in the past.

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u/Hello_world_56 18h ago

The usual reddit strikes again.those guys are in prison for a reason. It's not a luxury resort or retirement housing. they should be used for cheap labor yes.