VIEWPOINT: An issue that exists in the U.S. Food system is immigrant workers in the food industry. Un documented workers, work "in the dark" they usually have jobs in factories or jobs to pick up the chickens from the farms.This is an issue it will never be addressed because the head of food corporations need the un documented workers just as much as the un documented workers need the head of the food corporations. Instead of dealing with the situations they learn to equal each other out. Since the immigrants are un documented corporations are aloud to pay them whatever they want to pay them and that means they are getting paid little to nothing meaning the corporation can save lots of money, but in return many food corporations help these undocumented workers get fake social security cards which is not legal. This is a problem because High end food companies are getting way with illegal things that are saving them money and giving actually documented workers less jobs.
EVIDENCE: 1. (http://www.foodispower.org/slaughterhouse_workers.php)
2. (http://foodandpoliticsclass.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/employment-of-undocumented-immigrants-in-the-food-industry/)
- Natalie Arenas
I think its cruel for companies to cut corners just to save money. The customer is what should matter. They should be insuring us a clean healthy and delicious meal and they don't even take pride in hiring documented workers. Nothing against them because all there doing is trying to provide for their families. I respect it. What i don't like is how they treat them like in Food Inc. when they were throwing the chickens in the coop. How much money do you think they save by doing this? a few bucks or a significant amount?
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This is cruel and unhumaine because they're human being that may not have documents at the moment but they've families to support. It's carzy how these things are llegal. I didn't know that it was llegal for them to give out papers. These people aren't covered with any type of insurance and can catch any disease that the animals carry. In Food Inc the immigrants were working at night and they were in the chicken coops without gloves or something to cover their mouths. The coops are full of feces that may carry diseases in them. The company isn't going to protect their workers from these disease which maybe be convienent for them, but as a human being these people deserve to be covered. Shouldn't they provide a especial visa for these hard working immigrants? and if they are in some type of trouble shouldn't they help them?
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DeleteIt's a shame that illegal immigrants go through this type of abuse when all they want to do is "live the American dream" and feed/shelter their families. Did you know that there are an estimated 4.1 million undocumented women in the U.S. today. In addition, 4 million U.S.-born children — citizens by birthright — live in a household with at least one undocumented parent. Each year, undocumented immigrants contribute as much as $1.5 billion to the Medicare system and $7 billion to the Social Security system, even though they will never be able to collect benefits upon retirement. Undocumented workers have been recorded and exposed, but we are still doing nothing to do anything about this. I don't think that people should be deported just for trying to make it somewhere else, but that's how these things work. They shouldn't be paid what ever is left, they should be treated fairly because they are human beings.
ReplyDelete-Amandar!
Sources:
1) http://foodandpoliticsclass.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/employment-of-undocumented-immigrants-in-the-food-industry/
2) http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/injustice-on-our-plates#.UZD6q8xHhfQ
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DeleteIlegal immigrants are probably the backbone of the american industries such as small business (restaurants, bars, poultries,supermarkets,etc.) Why hire illegal immigrants? if there was ever an opportunity for capitalism to shine at it's greatest, this was it. And head of corporations and small business hire them because they can pay them as they wish and treat them as they wish. The undocumented worker cannot do anything because he has no papers, deportation is imminent. The only way to address this issue is -unfortunately- not hire them. If they are going to be treated like that by corporations. These corporations would not pay like that if the person is a documented person able to report the company.
ReplyDeleteEven though I heavily doubt that this will ever be the case, as long as we have capitalism corporations will find its way. The authorities in Washington understand this, and would not challenge the system because nobody else will do this type of work.
@Natalie Arenas: Should we allow corporations to decide how to treat undocumented workers? they are not citizens so technically we cannot enforce the laws on them without hurting them more than helping them. Undocumented working has its flaws and it is a double edge sword. At the end of the day, should we treat the undocumented workers like citizens?
http://www.qsrmagazine.com/exclusives/who-s-working-your-kitchen
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DeleteNatalie,
ReplyDeleteWhat do you suppose the government should do about this? What have they already been doing?
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