In reporting from 2023 that was resurfaced this week on social media, the publication Prison Legal News revealed that Taylor Farms was contracting labor from the Arizona Department of Correction, Rehabilitation, and Reentry for the low, low price of just $4.75 an hour — far below the cost of a non-incarcerated worker the federal minimum wage. (And to be clear, that’s not the hourly wage paid to the inmate, which is capped at $1.50 in Arizona.)
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
https://futurism.com/science-energy/diarrhea-lettuce-taylor-farms-prison-labor
30 Comments
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 116 pts · 1d
And if anyone is wondering how this is legal (yes, it is 100% legal), I hereby direct them to the US Constitution, 13th Amendment, Section 1,
In other words, slavery or involuntary servitude is fair game if you've been convicted of a crime.
Which is very fucked-up in my opinion. "Land of the Free", my ass...
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 47 pts · 1d
The article mentions some portion of the enslaved people having been detained by ICE, which doesn't seem like quite the same thing as having been duly convicted of a crime
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 1d
Tbf, many if not most of the people convicted were already poor people, especially minorities, who were railroaded by the prison slavery industrial complex even BEFORE ICE existed, let alone became one of the top 15 military forces in the world by funding.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1d
True, it would still be terrible if they followed the law, but it's worth noting if they don't even bother.
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 33 pts · 1d
So coincidental that the US has one of the highest per capita incarceration rates in the world, one that just happens to skew heavily non-white. Land of the free indeed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 1d
Damn. They had to reserve the darkest color solely for the USA ... and El Salvador.
elvith@feddit.org · 13 pts · 1d
Land of the free
Home of the slave
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 55 pts · 1d
Referring to Taylor Farms as the Diarrhea Lettuce Company is very appropriate.
Meanwhile, the $1.50 per hour "wage" for prisoners really is slave labor.
Let's try to thoroughly end slavery - I know we can do that. And private prisons too, for that matter. There shouldn't be profit involved in incarcerating people - this is crazy.
Emphasis in bold is mine:
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1d
Products should be made to list when they've utilized prison labor.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 1d
But then what happens when people learn to look for the suffering? I hear it really adds to the taste and feeling of freedom.
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1d
Given these circumstances, this is very true.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 1d
Everyone shitting their pants right now deserves it if they don't work towards abolishing this crap
Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 40 pts · 1d
When your morals are depraved and your workers are enslaved
OldManWithACane@lemmy.zip · 31 pts · 1d
🎵diarrhea 🎵 🎵diarrhea 🎵
psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
cha cha cha?
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 1d
If I was forced to pick YOUR lettuce, I'd shit in your food on purpose.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 1d
Some heros don't use toilet paper.
danekrae@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
STOP, you'll only make the lettuce grow stronger!
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 1d
The diarrhea lettuce slavery company.
Hell of a legacy there, Bruce (Taylor)!
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d
I remember hearing at some point that the FDA mistakenly identified Taylor Farms as the source and had issued an apology
Were they mistaken about being mistaken?
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company which was the source of the Trumporrhea Outbreak of 2026
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 1d
The avg American pays much more than $4.75/hr for this labour tho as its living expenses are paid through taxes, in effect subsidizing the $4.75 wage.
taygaloocat@leminal.space · 7 pts · 1d
Yes, but they're producing more than $4.75 an hour worth of value against their will.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1d
Of course.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 1d
That leaves plenty of money for lawyers in any upcoming lawsuits.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
And as usually the us government is projecting by introducing "forced labor tariffs" to Canada and EU
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
A million bucks can cover a multitude of sins.
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Diarrhea runs in their family.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Forced labor leads to forced shit-geysering.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1d
The only way to fix this is if all the prisoners have proper healthcare.
So...Politicians get good healthcare AND prisoners get good healthcare but the rest of us have to get by somehow?