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| Meat shortages: The wages of 'cheap' illegal labor |
| 2020-04-21 |
| [American Thinker] In 2004's preachy, much panned leftist mockumentary, A Day without a Mexican, the supposedly hypothetical scenario, about how California would fall apart if all its Mexicans, including illegals, somehow disappeared, was acted out. The film had a grand old time portraying white people as a bunch of soft, privileged fools, unable to clean even their own toilets. This is annoying because it lumps most Americans into a stereotype of a typically feckless, over-monied limousine liberal, such as you might really find in Hollywood circles. But it did raise the question of U.S. dependence on illegal foreign labor. Seems we might just be experiencing that now with the big meat plant shutdowns, based on problems with much of the labor force being out with the coronavirus. The plants also are described in news reports as having an "immigrant" workforce. Based on the number of ICE chicken plant raids seen in recent news, it's very likely that these plants, too, may be dependent on illegal alien labor. With those workers now either out with COVID-19 or else in, and spreading it to others, the plants are going down. Worse still, industry consolidation means that these plants are now few in number, so nothing can pick up the slack. The shutdowns are expected to mean meat shortages at the groceries, curiously similar to Venezuela's. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 Are you claiming that the problem is solvable with automation, Skid? IMO, not bloody likely as long as they can make a profit using dirt cheap illegals. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-04-21 10:14 |
| #1 Blend AI and computer vision with surgical robots and what do you have? Assembly line meat shuckers. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-04-21 09:49 |