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Tyson is one of biggest benefactors of prison labor

I suspect you mean "beneficiaries," and you're right to point this out. It is appalling that slave labor apparently wasn't enough of an immoral business advantage for them.

I was recently made aware of this:

> The 13th Amendment made chattel slavery and involuntary servitude unconstitutional, yet it included an insidious exception: “Except as a punishment for a crime.” This simple exception means instead of eliminating slavery, the 13th Amendment, ironically, extended it into perpetuity.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=slavery+u...

McDonald's as well http://al.com/news/2023/12/fast-food-chains-use-alabama-pris...

Is that a bad thing? They claim that incarcerated workers receive the same pay as their civilian colleagues. IMO seems like a positive.

Meat eaters ignore not just the violence against animals, but also the untold human suffering the industry inflicts. Meat packing employees routinely become immune to antibiotics because they come in contact with it so often on a daily basis.

There is zero way we could feed everyone without meat. Animals can process vegetation we can't at all - let alone effectively. That you can even have the temerity to make such an argument speaks to the extreme historical privilege you currently hold compared to the rest of human history.

You seem to be responding to an argument I did not make. If you're interested in the claim about the exploitation of meat industry workers, here's an article about it:

"The Many Costs of Cheap Chicken" [0]

[0]https://magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/many-costs-cheap-...

You did make the argument when you made people who eat meat complicit and assume they share in the company's guilt.

I think most if not all of us can agree Tyson is evil, there is no need to bring personal biases into it.

It isn’t just Tyson. The entire industrial meat industry, especially in the United States, exploits workers. Those workers are often immigrants.

Take a look at what they did during COVID:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/12/meatpack...

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