Ethical Farm Workers

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Have you ever wondered as to why we waste so much food a year? Food is ultimately our way of survival and there are food places almost everywhere you go. However there is a system of how the food is made and how they are distributed to our society. There are four major food occupations in the industry and hey each have a certain way there are conditioned to work. There is a strategy on how we are able to consume our food at the end of the day it begins with the farmer worker, workers who process the food, server/cooks in a restaurant, and the grocery store clerks. This system has underlying reports on how the food workers are actually treated and how this treatment can have a major effect on you. There are different conditions that farm workers …show more content…

The distribution of the food is to simply pack them up and ship them to the required places in that specific region. Mark Hawthorne, writer begins this article with a deep saying that he “investigates the animals whose rights we often overlook when trying to live compassionately: humans (Hawthorne, 2013).” This statement basically summarizes how we humans begin to act different due to the unethical work ethics that factory workers are positioned to do. You can look at the two different aspects of a farm worker, you can be a farm worker with plants or animals. In Hawthorne’s article he tells a story of a man who works in the chicken factory and he begins to tell the unethical things he is required to do to make sure he keeps his job. The farm worker begins to give gruesome details of how “ as a chicken hanger in a poultry slaughterhouse, [he] hoists fully conscious birds by their feet and locks them upside down into shackles along a fast-moving line that leads the chickens to an electric stun bath—and then to a mechanical blade that cuts their throats (Hawthorne, 2013).” You may think that what can him possibly doing this have a threatening life embedment in him. Well, if you may ask when you are told do something so gruesome like kill a living thing repeatedly it can make people not feel like they have any morals. Agreed, this is one food source that gives us the protein to …show more content…

When working in food retail it is very hard to get time off even if you are sick. It is stated in the “Why Grocery Store Workers Are Making Less While Big Chains clean Up” article written by Adrien Schless-Meier that “the lack of health coverage for food retail workers is also a public health issue. [Since a worker is] sick, [it can easily be] passed on to customers and other employees [creating] a chain reaction (Meier, 2014).” Grocery workers are afraid of taking time off work due to the lack of sick pay days for employees. According to the Hands that Feeds Us article “Grocery store workers face high rates of part-time employment. Almost half (46%) of the grocery store workers we surveyed reported working part-time hours, either some of the time or all of the time. On the whole, in surveys and interviews, grocery store workers reported that their schedules do not follow a five-days-on, two-days-off pattern. This makes it hard for these workers to plan their weeks, find other jobs, and maintain income security. It also leads to high rates of workers lacking health insurance because they do not have enough hours to qualify for employer-sponsored programs and they cannot afford it on their own (Alliance, 39).” Grocery workers make approximately ten dollars an hour and if you have a family of four while working part time, living pay check to pay check will be the only that

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