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are people talking about the labor conditions at Taylor Farms yet? like the fact they use enslaved prisoners in their facilities?
are we drawing the connection between worker safety and consumer safety & public health yet?
are people demanding to see the conditions in this place that keeps making us sick? why are the enslaved workers not having the time to use the bathroom or to rest when ill? very few people would shit in front of their coworkers given any choice at all.
from what i can find from a 30-minute search, they have since stopped actively hiring prison labor for the past couple of years, at least. BUT, taylor farms has been flagged as dangerous and exploitative in general for a while now.
source on prison labor in the food system: https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/01/29/prisoners-in-the-us-are-part-of-a-hidden-workforce-linked-to-hundreds-of-popular-food-brands/
In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from F
labor safety issues from 2025: https://ohsonline.com/articles/2025/11/25/osha-cites-taylor-farms-after-worker-dies-during-sanitation-process.aspx
A fatal machine-cleaning incident at a New Jersey processing facility has led to more than $1.1 million in OSHA penalties for willful and re
from 2013: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/30/business/taylor-farms-big-food-supplier-grapples-with-frequent-recalls.html
they have plants from colorado to new jersey to florida to california. more than 12-13 years that i could easily find of there being issues with labor and safety for workers and consumers, and a significant portion of that time they were directly using prison labor.
(use removepaywall if you need to to read these articles, i just wanted to drop the original sources i found in here)
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Context since I’ve been posting about it for a bit on and off: I was homeless for a year and have unstable housing, I was able to get a room because the guy said I’d only have to pay half of my deposit, but I owe him the rest of it at the end of the month which totals to $1100. I was charged an NSF fee on my bank of $50 recently because I used Klarna to get groceries a few weeks prior to this. I’ve been trying to get more shifts from my job but still haven’t heard back from them for a week, I’m looking for a second job but I really want to be able to keep this room so I can go back on tesosterone because I wasn’t able to confidently do it when I didn’t have a safe place to shower, etc.
A lot of people have been helping out but I still don’t have enough for rent to secure the room, I have only 20 days to make the goal or I’m back to being homeless again. My partner is able to help feed me sometimes but everyone I know is struggling so any amount helps a shit ton. Please share if you can.
when you learn about an amazing artist you were previously unaware of, in this case Lauren Lewis and her incredible, fantastical ceramic mugs:
but you learned about them because of an interview about AI scammers stealing their art for slop videos
all of which are really gross 'oh my autistic son makes these mugs and everyone says they're stupid! please tell him they're good!" "oh nobody likes my mugs and I'm a conventionally attractive skinny white girl with depression; please buy one!" "oh I'm a Black artist and everyone says i'm crazy to try and sell my mugs!" nonsense. masquerading as an independent marginalized artist to rip off actual independent artists (who may or may not be marginalized, but who if they ARE neurodivergent or mentally ill, don't owe anyone that information) is so scummy. and it's always the idiotic sob story about nobody liking the person's art, when in reality they often rip off viral artists whose work deservingly sells out within hours of being listed
anyway follow Lauren Lewis and give her love! just don't beat me to her next drop, because damnit, I want one!
thing I am proud of: when the doctor started going on a weird rant about long covid not being real I paused and listened to his nonsense for a bit and then very calmly said, in a polite and curious tone, "you don't believe in post-viral illness?" and he like. stammered a bunch and was like OH WELL I'M NOT SAYING -- I DON'T...I just think ..! and backpedaled awkwardly while I just sat there like :3c interesting :3c thank you so much for clarifying your stance on this :3c
an important skill for chronically ill people to develop is the ability to treat the doctor as though they are simply a person you are interviewing to find out how much they know about your condition.
Holy shit op this is LITERALLY in the book 'Never Split The Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depends On It'. Written by a guy who did hostage negotiation and then tried doing business negotiation, and mopped the floor with industry experts.
I'm fortunate enough to have a primary care doctor who knows about hEDS, but it's occurring to me that the skills in this book could be medically life changing for chronically ill folks of all kinds. Like. Literally a matter of life and death, especially for BIPOC and/or fat and/or young people who are having their issues dismissed.
the “sexy lamp test” but for disabled folks: if you can replace your disabled character with a beloved pet dog that needs an expensive surgery to survive then you have to throw out your manuscript
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