This problem is not unique to the poultry industry.
Indeed. The Tampa Bay Times is running a story about Wall Marts in the Tampa area and police calls from their locations
Its seriously messed up. In just the Tampa Bay area, police respond to a Wall Mart call once every half an hour…every day, every week. The vast majority are incredibly minor issues, with a shockingly low number of actual arrests.
Basically, its typical Wall Mart strategy…why pay for in store security when they can just demand that the local police do it for them?
Because chicken might be more expensive by a few cents a pound. Or the handful of companies that control the majority of meat processing in the US might have to take a slightly smaller profit.
I work(well when I’m not posting comments on websites!) as an engineer for a company that sells equipment to poultry processing plants and I truly have not seen this or gotten the impression from the employees I’ve been around that this is the way things are. That said, poultry processing might need to be added to the list of things the general public should not see!
You mean these people aren’t responsible?
http://trending.report/walmart-people/
Read the article…they actually do talk about the fact that Wall Mart tends to place it stores in marginal areas, and caters to, shall we say, a marginal group of customers. And then instead of beefing up security, they simply place more calls for even lesser incidents to police, till the police are literally spending their time patrolling Wall Marts, waiting for the next call, instead of actually patrolling crime heavy areas preventing crimes. They force the local police to be their security forces, and in return…they pay less in taxes.
Every corporate factory designer’s brain is racing at the thought… eliminate bathrooms and just make the workers pee in their pants! Think of the savings!
In a similar way, Wal-Mart refuses to pay all employees benefits (just makes them part-timers) and tells them to apply for State welfare.
So? What’s your point? That it’s okay?
"National Chicken Council "
Oh FFS…
Even better: NC and other GOP/Teatroll legislatures are now considering just getting rid of public restrooms and doing things like mandating that high school students wear diapers.