Spam

[jeSteR]

I love me some good fried spam, but alas, like shark's fin soup, it's another one of my favorite foods that I will now need to give up.

Just so you know, pig brains only go into sausage and not spam.

It's a long read but very informative. I can't believe that this is still happening in the new millenium.

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/06 ... ns-disease

[geForce]

I thought this was going to be one of those write-ups like that how they make chicken nuggets one to gross us out about how they make spam.

[supersuk]

wtf.. need cliffs

[geForce]

Underpaid illegal immigrants put in an unsafe work environment for the sake of the bottom dollar.

[nature boy]

that is a long article. is it just about illegals or does it have anything to do with spam?

[jeSteR]

It is about Hormel, the creators of SPAM and also somewhat of a justification for unions today as apparently, there are still some companies that just don't give a rat's ass about their employees. I dislike unions as much as most of you, but it's companies like Hormel that still justify the existence of unions. Kind of a crossover from the conversation here

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1298

[nature boy]

if we're talking illegal immigrants then we're talking about a whole other ball of wax. and i don't know what the labour laws are like in the states, but in bc i think they're pretty good (from what i know of them at least).

[se7entse7en]

I haven't read the article but by J's summary it kinda sounds like it might be similar to the following articles (which I haven't read, just skimmed very quickly, either):

UN Finds Canada and Ontario Violate Human Rights
http://www.justicia4migrantworkers.org/bc/news.html

Okanagan fruit pickers’ poor conditions a growing concern
http://ubyssey.ca/features/agriculture- ... g-concern/

Mexican migrant agricultural workers and accommodations on farms in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia
http://riim.metropolis.net/assets/uploa ... P11-04.pdf

Bringing in Mexicans to do the work that no sane Canadian would do ... hmmm.... makes one wonder.

[nature boy]

sounds like the chinese in canada during the railroad.

[geForce]

You can't unionize illegal immigrant workers. That's one of the reasons why dirty companies use them.

[se7entse7en]

Who said they were illegal immigrants?

[geForce]

I guess it doesn't directly say that he was an illegal immigrant.. I was just interpreting this part of the article:

There is no Matthew Garcia.
Or, rather, Matthew Garcia is not his name. It's the made-up name I've given him to shield him from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

[se7entse7en]

Just read the article. Disgusting. Disappointing. No spam for me, thanks.

[nature boy]

[se7entse7en]

I think the article implied somewhere that ~75% of the workforce @ QPP was illegal.