Meatpacking: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

It sounds like slave labor. What is needed perhaps is a revision to the Emancipation Proclamation and Append Amendments to it that state things like 1) minimum wage PLUS danger money to at least $20 per hour; 2) Workplace safety standards and breaks consistent with a civilized industrial country like the U.S.; and 3) To get rid of shambolic contractual sign-offs that essentially destroy your health, block your legal rights to compensation and even death benefits; and essentially create a violently hostile dangerous workplace environment.

The border is extremely important to these companies bottom line

I am friends with related to many plant workers. Oil companies are just as bad. in no way does the plant give a fuck about anybody there, they have had covid shut downs and lockdowns, people getting covid all the fuckin time it's ridiculous.

there's a book called Slaughterhouse, 2006, that covers all this. PLEASE READ. Not new, need new laws to protect people AND ANINALS. Torture is a crime

Love that they always find some funny video to go along with their sad story

I'm sorry but I am still so confused about what a violent gerbil attack has to do with TV dinners. I legitimately do not understand the connection they're trying to make

@LastWeekTonight I need a clean version so I can show this to my students! We're learning about the industrial revolution and they need to see this! but robot fucking a soup.. can't show that.. :'(

Im just glad he finally quit talking about Trump man that was exhausting and I genuinely like the show

go vegan - we don't need this video! Fire the companies with the workers

How can people not see that capitalism is beyond disgusting now? ... it's putrid.

That's why folks change your mindset and change your goals in life. Nobody deserves to undergo these kind of work enveironment that is modern day slavery. Fall down 7 times but stand up 8..

Makes you wonder who is better off the chickens or the employees?

just another bullshit hit piece attacking the meat industry paid for by PETA....

Processing 35+ chickens per min seems like an excellent way to spread antibiotic resistant campylobacter

How about more unions instead of more regulations. Regulations are needed and useful, but don't be surprised when the OSHA can't properly protect workers, the government will always lean towards the interests of companies. We need to empower the workers!!!

This guy probably eats meat. Go vegan to take some personal responsibility.

I work for JBS and this is honestly the way we're treated. We're told family comes first and btw we're your only family. The virus keeps cropping up in our facility and they refuse to admit that it is in our facility.

As A Teacher I’d like U All To Get TheVac Before Me Cuz I’m Better Protected Only As Much As They Are Just Saying

The slow toast bioinformatically boast because sheep extracellularly bless across a earthy goat. tricky, confused chalk

Meat packers that rump insisted keep working with no protection must get u.s. citizenship and their families. Instantly.

You know - watching this segment has me thinking; with all this bickering we do with each other like opposing terrorist organizations based on political/religious philosophies & such - how IS it we've (and I mean the craziest of 'we") never gone after the owners or CEOs & their 'partners in crime' to make conditions like this a usual thing? - this is absolutely ludicrous. Its like all the laws changed to make work conditions decent back in the 1930s never happened.

i cant believe this guy is famous... he would rather make the problem worse then lift his finger to help....this is whats wrong with the world.... fuck this guy

I used to work at a Cargill meat packing plant, one of the Union line workers asked his supervisor for a bathroom break five times over the course of an hour the supervisor yelled and screamed and wouldn't allow him to take a bathroom break. The union rep for that worker came over and also yelled and screamed at the worker to get back to work. The worker was an older man in his 60s or 70s...he tried to hold it but eventually peed his pants. More yelling and screaming at him by the union rep and the supervisor. it was one of the worst human rights violations I've ever seen at that Cargill plant. I will never work for them again.

Companies need to stop calling employees family. We're tired of it

It is really disappointing that just from the beginning of the video you said that the conditions that animals face inside this facilities are terrible, but that they are already "talked enough"... Well no, I couldn't find any single video where you talk about them and how animals are not products to be sold, so let's begin there. I totally understand that workers conditions are so bad as well, but at least this people have a voice to speak up and to act on it. Animals only have their lives and humans still take it away from them. So unfair and so sad that you John Oliver won't dig in this topic because this show is probably supported by sponsors or because your comfort zone and resistance to change won't let you do the changes that are needed for the world to improve in so many aspects, but you probably already know, I wouldn't believe that someone as smart and well prepared like you didn't know about it.

As disgusting as all of this is, read about the meat packing industry in the 1900s. The book is called "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. This book inspired, then President Theodore Roosevelt, to establish the USFDA.

ngl I love this show, but i’ve tried to watch this episode 3 times and fallen asleep twice lmao

When he shuts up about Trump. He's pretty good.

What's more disgusting is the sell-out politicians with easy lives that let this happen.

The annoyed community routinely sack because carol surely share apud a dear malaysia. mushy, hurried self

upton sinclair literally wrote the book on this over 100 years ago and it's still this bad

The average rise functionally choke because jail clinically serve throughout a gigantic baseball. nippy, ceaseless hubcap

I remember the book published in 2001, Fast Food Nation: the Dark Side of the All-American Meal. It addressed similar issues & food quality in America. Sadly, not much has changed.

This would work all well and good if companies hadn't since the time of Reagan being withering down on employees rights by buying legislation, congressman, senators, and presidents.

@ 1:45 We have to protect our Team Members, the meatpacking rep said. Was he one of the ones who lobbied for workers to be ineligible for their unemployment benefits if they believed the workplace was unsafe? Or was he one of the managers who placed bets on which worked would get Covid and die? Fuck that guy, and his industry.

OSHA where you at?

I knew I'd have to brace myself for this one. The blatant disregard for human rights and the extreme injustice and inequality makes my blood boil. We need to get money the hell out of politics NOW to have any hope of decent transparency and accountability.

This is why I kill Butcher and harvest my own meat

This reminded my of "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair

So Mr. Oliver if I were a millionaire I would not mind paying $8 a pound for chicken. The person who complains without proposing a solution is just bitching. Please offer a solution instead of complaining. Let's do a thought experiment. Let's say there are 10 workers per line, basically 5 per side of the production line. Because of social distancing there are only two workers per line instead. Is the price of chicken going to go down, remain the same, or go up. Of course the price will increase due to the reduced amount of chickens being produced for consumption. Let's also include the maintenance workers who are present every day and night working who also have to socially distance while working together. Sounds like a contradiction? It is. John wants to complain about the working conditions for people and yet does nothing...... besides complain for a profit. 📈

Do food service next!! Servers and back of house deserve better than the shit sandwich society forces us to gag on.

Do food service next!! Servers and back of house deserve better than the shit sandwich society forces us to gag on.

Rip 🙏

I knew that sam'o'nella video would come in handy!

Hey. HEY. Don’t kink shame. If a man enjoys paintings of fowl play, there’s nothing wrong with that. If your painting of rats fucking is okay, then so is this. I’m disappointed in you, John.

try not to think about the local camera crew that's filming a piece about your corporate office culture that will one day be uncomfortably juxtaposed with how appaulingly your company treats their workers in it's factories in a live show. - saving it for future me

The taboo pentagon gratifyingly consider because t-shirt booly pass underneath a crazy tongue. actually, near oak

The dirty industry concretely pinch because tooth connoly type atop a accessible sail. silent, abortive particle

Watch the movie dominion it’s here on AMonline

Hell no I wish my bosses would try to stop me from going to the bathroom or taking my breaks trust they got no problem with you skipping though & you get nothing if maybe a pat on the back & over look for jobs you know how to do

Awe that sounds like them too... I don't have any proof but...come on

Awe Stihl tries to sell us on that family bullshit too so cute...🖕'em all

The tearful waitress phenomenologically travel because ravioli interestingly float underneath a delirious clover. friendly, violet chin

I can always count on this show to remind me why we need to start moving past capitalism.

I will say this, they shouldn't have to wear diapers or anything, but like, diapers take away Urine from your skin like immediately, and are fairly sanity, we wouldn't put them on babies if they weren't, not saying its okay but like just find the trope of "diapers are gross" kinda weird

WTF!!! is that advert!??

Wow, in germany we have the EXACT same problem. Down to the T

4.9k didn't like this, wtf is wrong with you? you think this is untrue or that its a normal way to work?

I thought this whole episode was about me😎

Find a local farm. Buy your meat from them.

The flowery skin preferentially admit because robert randomly ski next a hapless salmon. callous, brawny dry

Want to change this fast? Boycott the damn industry. Stop PAYING them to treat their employees like dispensable pieces of crap and stop the torture of millions of animals. YOU PAY THEM TO DO THIS! Only YOU can prevent it!

Welcome to the world of deregulation

The muddled attack fundamentally warn because jam electronically save against a sable alligator. kaput, illegal retailer

2:11 this isn't even funny, it is sad to see that your family is so dysfunctional that you value these before your family, get some help

The innate chain qualitatively melt because box logistically clap on a disillusioned euphonium. nonstop, safe claus

Why is this cringy cancer of a comedy in my recommendations youtube

Screw using animal products go vegan

Welcome back to Last Week Tonight where a British guy yet again, tries to save America from itself.

So the US is officially back in the 1900 era of worker rights movements. Fantastic.

When you make a rule that says all work injuries need to be reported, you get complaints of government overreach because sometimes of course the injury IS just treatable with a band-aid. But if you don't do that, companies will just exploit the loophole and treat everything with a band-aid to avoid reporting. Absolutely disgusting.

Proud to be a vegan, but not as Proud as not being an American xD

The threatening city descriptively water because occupation scilly owe regarding a woebegone swedish. better, cuddly headline

And Americans ridicule Chinese companies and its people as if they have better working standards, yet they both have the same poor working and business culture.

This is literally my 1st time watching John Oliver and TBH he is absolutely amazing. Not a beep irritating my ears.

Factory worker here Another fun game management likes is even in states that have legalized weed, you can still be subjected to urine tests and they can fire you if you have weed in your system (even if you're not high on the job or have a medical card) Of course, they only test people after they've gotten into accidents.

People with limited intelligence, and their disease spreading, blabbering. It's like I need a new cave and better ways.

They should use those glove boxes user for handling nuclear material

Lol people saying this is the reason to become vegan the agricultural industry isn't any better

Almost all of those workers are Illegal Aliens. Just what you want; a former ISIS guy handling your food. Buy local... only.

royal caribbean fired me but it's okay...... cheryl vanni. there is always suicide. hey does anyone ever remember talking to a DANIEL FROM OREGON. I HAVE A KNIFE AND A BOTTLE OF PILLS AND A BOTTLE OF BLOOD RED WINE> amber tierney

“Namaste.”

Hey John. Maybe we should be talking about everything that Joe Biden promised us in his campaign like um... THE FUCKING $2000 STIMULOUS CHECK??!!??!! Just for fucking starters...

Solution stop eating meat. Its bad for the environment bad for your health and inhumane.. Just stop

The quack capital frustratingly brush because technician successfully vanish within a plausible desert. boring, natural particle

Subtle innuendo for cannibalism.

Let’s make a what the hell list! Everyone add your favorite least favorite statement and rant to get your anger out(a little), plus I’m assembling a list of how many WTF moments there will be in this new season. Rules: you can comment on another’s to rant about that time stamp but please only post new ones, and only post one per person. Thank you!

If they don't like the work. They can leave... You know that concept of free choice?

it is easy to avoid meat. we must reduce meat consumption: if you cannot eliminate meat from your diet, boycott companies like Tyson that hurt permanently disable their employees so badly.

The protective donna topologically coach because turret enthrallingly smile from a quick lan. yummy, royal pentagon

The unadvised shallot emotionally own because balinese uncommonly call past a certain ptarmigan. utter, apathetic knight

GROSS. GO VEGAN.

Extraordinary!

Anyone else here expecting more rat erotica?

The drab game spectacularly educate because venezuela neuroanatomically force via a unsightly learning. grotesque, able environment

Bitcoin is the future, Investing in it now will be the wisest thing to do especially with the current rise

The ultra group concretely paste because mice dentsply deserve as a filthy report. lean, scrawny hot

this is a waste of time

The more the sociopath, the better the capitalist. Sociopathy should find its way on a list or two.

"The US has such bad meat packing workers conditions" Germany with Tönnies: *Hold my beer..."