Post #4174414
2026-07-28 14:48 UTC
…“And the story isn’t about humans being humans, because before capitalism humans weren’t relying on chickens that much.
This is a bird that comes from East Asia, that's domesticated, certainly. It spreads around the world but it wasn’t cultivated in the sort of volume that you see today.
So the fact that you can take the chicken and do with it what you want, that’s an example of cheap nature but…
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@urlyman@mastodon.social 2026-07-28 14:52
…“you need workers to take this chicken and turn it into a nugget, and the cheap work here I think is very interesting. We found a story of some chicken execs in Oklahoma in the US. They realised that it’s very expensive to have workers work on the chicken plant, particularly at night. Working on a chicken plant is always underpaid – these businesses in America had used prison labour that were paid nothing or 25 cents an hour, something very, very small – but even that was too much…