In towns across America, children working in dangerous jobs in slaughterhouses is an open secret. Data from the Labor Department says that children are illegally working at alarming rates. NBC News takes you inside these slaughterhouses in an investigation that spans six states, two countries, dozens of interviews and thousands of pages of public records.
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Can you stay “COVER-UP” from the very top down😂😂😂😂😂
Here’s what they are NOT telling you… slaughterhouse waste, all the offal, fins, furs, feathers, beaks, hooves, bugs, floor sweepings…is ground up, dissolved in acid, neutralized in lye, then dried to a mucilage spray or powdered ingredient called *’hydrolyzed protein’.*
It’s the brown color in your pet’s GMO corn kibble that’s killing them early. GMO-HP was supposed to be only for feedlots and pet food…but has migrated over to corn chips and processed food, together with synthetic HFCS.
_”If it has HP, then let it be!”_
So should my 15 year old cat normally get to 21 if not for the beaks and feet food? Cats normally eat a whole animal, my cat eats mice he catches, bones tail everything.. I guess the difference is all the chemicals the gov sneaks in
And we will see more of it with all the ‘cheap labor’ Biden is bringing in. Also pay will drop. Bidens busy building back better…
Why are parents not held responsible?
Probably because they work too, some people don’t have enough money to feed they’re family. So most of the family has to work. Reminds me of sweatshops..
Naw,why is our government not held accountable? Theirs a agency called the Department of Labor ,scare sluggs that get a paycheck every two weeks .
He came to the country illegally. Stole someone’s identity and worked illegally. All while filling the cartels pockets. But Biden doesnt have a problem with it. This will become common place soon.
I don’t see a problem with a 16 year old working for a good wage while they continue their education. I had my first real paying job at 14 and before that at 8 worked in the sugar beet fields with my family. The level of coddling society believes teenagers are entitled to will be the ruin of our country.
I started working at 15
@@nisa3695 right?! The problem here is illegal workers not teenagers working.
Schoolwork is much more demanding than it was back in the day. Kids shouldn’t be working hard or physical jobs under age 18. It keeps them in a cycle of poverty. They won’t have time to study and will be tired or distracted in school. Wealthy kids will always have an advantage because they are allowed to dedicate 100% of their energy to studies and gaining scholarships whereas lower class teenagers have to work and get an education.
Let them work if they want to work.. duh 😜
We keep exploiting children, undocumented people the suffering of animals. God have mercy 🙏
I started working at 15 under the table for a Korean business in Shreveport Louisiana be careful around the equipment because you will get hurt or worse case die and I’m black not Hispanic kids working is not unheard of now that one dollar thing no im not
Evidently by all these comments…. Everybody here is missing the bigger picture. As long as you continue to eat meat you will continue to participate in this horror and most likely you will even consume human flesh; get diseases etc etc and absorb that negative energy that those animals experienced during their slaughter. Suite yourself
😅 I have been eating meat since I could chew. Can’t stop now 💪🏽
GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!
ACCOUNTABILITY! ACCOUNTABILITY! ACCOUNTABILITY!
Yep.
Keeping all of the suffering in our Prayers….Because we have good laws here and good people but some others just do what they want…THANK YOUUUU ALL FOR YOUR IMMENSE COURAGE AND MIRACLE PRAYERS…TOGETHER IN OUR HEARTSSS AND PRAYERS FOREVER…NO ONE ELSE 🙏 💞 ♥️
As terrible as the child labor is, the dark truth is the horrid cruelty, torture and suffering beyond human imagination that occurs inside these facilities. We deserve better food, and life deserves more respect. Open your hearts, just to awareness.
Where do you stand on Abortion?
Im hungry
U probably haven’t heard about the illegal mexican labor in florida incident where they kept mexicans as slaves to work in the tomato fields as they would work them to death with little pay, torture rp women, poor living/working conditions etc. which happened only 6 years ago as of this post
This is beyond tragic. Children shouldn’t go through that, adults shouldn’t go through that, and the poor little innocent animals shouldn’t go through it either. Our civilization needs to evolve beyond eating other sentient beings.
You should just eat carrots.
close the border!!!!!!!!!!!
The meat is not the problem the problem is child labor and poor conditions in the work environment.
The American people has spoken. We don’t want a dictator, we want our democracy to remain intact! You all can leave ….!
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Blame your corrupt system, government and rich people.
I blame no one. What some people see as trash (jobs Americans don’t want), others see as treasure(opportunity to make honest wages). The identity theft is bad, but people gotta survive. It won’t change, our nation puts God on the money for a reason. We worship money. The largest economy in the world always will.
😢😢😢 People please go vegan! Stop the evil meat industry.
Humans weren’t meant to be vegetarian or vegan. Do you not care that thousands of animals are also killed to keep them from eating vegetables? Slowly poisoned. Now that’s a horrible death.
Animals are killed by planting and harvesting vegetables.
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The land of dreams ah ……
“They are taking our jobs!” How many people from this country work in Slaughterhouses overnight? It’s freezing, dirty, and deadly.
I’m an American , there are plenty of US citizens working their butts off at slaughterhouses ,I work with them.
It’s the local job guaranteed to hire anyone.
wanna know some dark truth there’s actually human meat in the meat we eat …
Does it taste like chicken?
They forgot to add that these children come from border custody by US agents, they secretly sell them off to “sponsors” in the United States, that’s what’s going on here.
prob pays more than mowing grass
Man this been going on forever its the American way and most countries way. Sad 🌎
This is not unusual in the US, back in mid seventies when I was 15 and 16 I worked in canneries and in the early forties my dad worked at poultry slaughter house, we are Scandinavian, seems like good first jobs to start out with.
Thank you 🙏
What happens to family members who don’t have the ability or the resources to make decisions beyond ourselves??????
This is not anything new. America is lazy and dosent work for less than 20.00 an hour because you can sit on your sofa for 15.00 from free tax money . Why do you think that the democrats want cheap labor coming in undocumented.
E verify?
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What a good name for a rock band!
Too dramatic….any escape from poverty is ok it’s means to an end…twenty years later they’re living the American dream….it’s the way of life… running from poverty is real children.. adults…all humans want to live a better life..no matter the cost…it’s the reality
They had kid labor in all these places in America USA in the 1600,1700,1800and 1900 . And they most of the time didn’t get paid. And if they did. It wasn’t as well as these children are getting paid. The difference is that the children in those years were American citizens. And no one fault for them. So to me all of this is hippacritical. And besides theses illegals left their homes in order to come to America USA. To work. They and the parents were made aware that there was a chance that the work might be dangerous. However they made a choice to leave their country an d to come to America illegally and use someone else’s identity to work and God knows whatever else they used another person’s identity to with. So all of this is by design by the parents of the childand the teenager. The government officials/politicians and corporations that hiser these illegals. It is all their faults for the misuse of these illegals and they have themselves to blame ultimately. End of story. Nuff said. This illegals issues are beyond sickening.point blank. Close the book.🙄🙄🙄🤔
Im about to eat one them burgers like i been doing for years. These companies gone do what they want anyway. Why stress about it? It’s to many other problems out here to deal with
Hmm wouldn’t that be Joe Bidens immigration policy pushing this a lot of republicans as well let’s not be naive
So the under age children were brought here illegally to work , working for really low wages, not being citizens they are not protected by our child protection laws , undeliverable, so much for a better life in a new country
Too sad to watch. As a child due to poverty I had to do odd jobs to help my mom pay bills, nothing back breaking. In 3rd world countries kids have to work hard to survive.
Thanks for the steaks kids. 😊
Where is the government inspectors. OS HA
Slavery was never abolished
What a load of crap.
Thankyou Democrats for making these kids work for us.
The kids look well dressed. That’s what’s really important.
When you come across that border the Cartel owns you. They are modern day slaves.
My grandfather, had learning disabilities I’m pretty sure but he could hardly read or write. He dropped out of school as a teenager, I think he was 15 yrs old. He applied for a local slaughterhouse and that man spent almost 40 years waking up at 3am, working 12+ hour shifts pushing blood from the floor to the pit.
He said it was better than being around his wife and “listening to her run her mouth” 😂 he had a point there.
Anyway, my father worked there for a few years. I lasted 3 weeks before I went back to a kitchen. I’m currently a Chef and I work for the family that owns the slaughterhouse my grandfather worked for.
Grandpa lived on a farm. He was more valuable to the family I guess, working in a slaughterhouse as a child. I’ll never understand why they hired him so young especially when he was illiterate. Before anyone asks, he was raised in a very rural area and they only had tiny school houses. I always felt sorry for the man. He really never lived at all. I wish he lived long enough to know that I am a Chef for the owners. He’d be proud. RIP Grandpa Herbert. You were tough as nails!
❤thank you for sharing this! Rest In Peace to your grandfather
You write very well! Build generational wealth by working for yourself. Pay your self first. Invest. God bless to you and your family! You did good! 👍
My father worked in an abattoir for a while…the smells he brought home were horrendous… we’d put pine sol in his shoes that were left outside.
This Is Horrible And Every News Agency Needs To Broadcast This!
One of the last things President Obama did, was to make it legal to slaughter horses for human consumption. For the first time in the history of the United States of America, companion animals, without whom our human race would not have survived, are being inhumanely tortured and killed. Imagine the horror our Native American tribes must feel daily just living with the knowledge of these slaughter institutions. Are we gonna wait till they start breeding and killing dogs?
So the parents let an underaged teen to work in a meat packi g plant ?
This is a very hard subject to address. I believe in working hard in life, to HAVE a good life. But I don’t believe in making children work long hours everyday to pay bills. My daughter had a little job she got for herself when she was 12. But my husband and I went with her. As a parent, It is my job to protect her.
If these children are being forced to work long hours every day, they obviously aren’t going to school. I’m sorry, but to me? This is wrong. Thank you for bringing this situation to our attention! I hope further laws will be made to protect the vulnerable children. They are the future. ❤
Opportunity is created through desperation. The kid was probably sent here through savings of an entire family in a country with low paying jobs, if any jobs. They support an entire family just like Henry Ford’s workers did. It’s certainly not ideal, but in contrast to the future in the other country, it’s much better. Americans aren’t lining up to do this work. Agriculture either. Once again, desperation creates Opportunity. Check the cocoa harvesting, much younger and Nestlé and the other manufacturers know it. It’s been going on for decades and I don’t think a news clip will change it. Unfortunately.
Hurt people or gain financial? Hurt people or gain financial? What percent of Americans choose financial gain?
Keep those borders open 😂
You said HATTISBURG, MS???
Wrong… I don’t eat the meat they produce
This is Pure evil letting Children work There
This industry is a tragedy for everyone involved, including the end customer that paid the hitman. The only way you could truly understand the process is through the eyes of a slaughtered animal.
This is not just happening in slaughterhouses it’s happening everywhere. Companies do not care about immigrant lives they see them as cheap labour who won’t sue them.
😂😂😂😂good stay in your country
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They are immigrants
I don’t know how I really feel about this since I worked as à child in fields and cotton fields. I was 2 years old. In the 50’s it was common for the Whole family’s to be working in fields. I believe it made a responsible person and it did not harm me. I was nessary for everyone to work. I was raised if you don’t work u don’t eat.
Work never hurt anybody. Those that condemn this the worst had an idyllic childhood and thinks everyone should as well. The working child has better values and is a better citizen then those that party and play video games their whole life.
naughty troll
I still feel worse for the animals.
We are opening our hearts to this astracity that is happening at the borders, millions of young children mainly male are surging into the USA undocumented, Governor Greg Abbott is doing all he to stop these human trafficking, the children are working to pay off, their ticket to the USA.
It’s also in the tobacco industry
Not to make light but the young man in the orange hoodie is clearly in a school
This is disgusting
Joe Biden’s America!
The Fruit and the Seeds people. Read the Bible. We are so crazy for doing this.
So we been eating children have we #PMSL.
😂Per the title of the video😅
We need whistle blowers scientists to check out the Maui Lahaina disaster. Please Please help. It happened here it could be your home next. 😢😢😢😢😢😢
That’s so messed up.
Sick, sick, greedy adults. Heavenly Father please send the Comforter for us, all.
All you need is fake documents like a Mexican matricula that claims you’re an adult and then go to a job agency where they’ll send you off to jobs like these. The companies blame it on the agencies while clearly knowing that one, they’re probably illegal and two, they’re probably underage. Shame on the companies and the agencies.
What’s wrong with you people? They are lying. Of course they knew this kid was not 18 and they should have checked the identity of the SS# that was given to this company’s HR. This is despicable. Why aren’t the HR Director, the President /Owner and many other officials of this company in jail right now???? You guys have exposed this same company before with the same infractions. How many times do they have to do it to be criminal? Is this another case of corruption? By the way, that lady official from the Labor Department should also be fired and in jail as well. This is disgusting how these big companies get away with murder. Is this another case of corruption? Don’t tell me that the FBI should be looking into that – oh no, it’s no one’s fault. It’s not the FBI’s fault, it’s not the Department of Labor’s fault, it’s not Biden’s faulty and it’s not the company’s faulty either, it’s the kid’s fault.
Honestly…the working age needs to drop. This age restriction is a modern thing. I am a 70 year old woman and started working at 10. I loved working, it was fun!
😂 I agree. Younger people should be allowed to work, rather than making older people work longer. I do not agree with putting very young children in danger; but I do feel like the retirement age should not be where it is today. My husband is 71 now, and I could not imagine him having to go out to do anything other than enjoying his later years.❤🕺🏽
How many had dyslexia and read it out of context . I thought they were McDonald’s victims . Sorry wrong conspiracy. More like click bait for me.
This is horrific. But I did read the title thinking this would actually be worse. But this is stll aweful!
All images are graphic.
I am absolutely shocked that these companies have found another way of maximising profits.
Yet NBC is a propaganda arm of the demacrat party. You won’t tell the truth about Biden’s open border and child trafficking.
One more reason to avoid Chick-fil-A.
And enhanced screening process won’t do very much good when we don’t know who these people are to start with. They can fabricate any background they want before they get released into whatever city they want. Our government is guilty of human trafficking and facilitating modern day slavery under the guise of being a humanitarian effort. And you are a bigot if you disagree with this trafficking and slavery.
Share this with the big guy and all them that voted for him !
oh quit it, i worked as a “slaughterhouse kid” too, i did it on my free will because i wanted to earn adult wages instead of the teen wages from mcdonalds at 15, these kids are working there on their own will
So this days the slaughterman has become them victim?
It’s everywhere in America you see kids working I was just recently working at a warehouse and there was kids that were 12 and 13 years old from Central America
NBC pusing conspiracy theories or just late for views snd likes.😂Lol
I like who you are man! The way you handled that and the way you carry yourself brother! You’re an amazing example to people today!
You should check what Israel did to children in Gaza too.
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Interesting to note the increase since JB opened the borders which violates our Constitution but so does everything else the Left does. As long as they’re in, it will continue to get worse and worse.
Why would the mother & adults in his life let him work there??
6:16 6:19 6:20 WELL IT DOES NOT COST ANYTHIMG BUT PAPERWORK TO DO IT LEGALLY why do you not!!???
11:11 his parents let him do it ask them 😮
So many law breakers in the business industry. Where are those “checks and balances” when they’re needed. And they’re hiring “illegals”.
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14:26 not completely at fault the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS will do whatever it takes to make the AMERICAN-DOLLAR
EXCEPT-
Process to the USA LEGALLY
IT A SCAM
15:22 I’m sorry that young man lost his life but as the adults u should of not let him I’m sure you told him ‘caca’ and to get the job NO matter what your at fault for that babies death for giving him the ability to lie!! I’m not wrong at any place you can get info to legally come in and that young man could work at any fast food restaurant and other places and be alive today DO NOT BLAME AMERICA