Sentences with phrase «factory farm workers»

Rabbit hunters, trappers, rabbit factory farm workers or some laboratory technicians are at the greatest risk of exposure to disease.

To answer that question, one needn't look any further than the dozens of damning undercover investigations into agribusiness operations released over the last several years: chickens crammed so tightly into tiny cages that they can't even spread their wings, living in the same space with the rotting corpses of their cage - mates; mother pigs unable to even turn around for months on end inside their gestation crates; factory farm workers sadistically abusing animals; and more.

When I learned of the horrific violence and cruelty that billions of animals endure each year to satisfy our tastebuds (not to mention the abuses and mistreatment that factory farm workers endure in order to ensure corporate profit, from being forced to defecate in their pants to operating dangerous equipment without training), I knew that going vegan was the only way for me to live in a manner that was consistent with my values.

Not exact matches

Relations between worker and employer are governed by a welter of state and federal laws and regulations drafted in the first half of the 20th century to prevent child labor and other abuses in factories and on farms.

Factory farming and the combine harvester increased labour productivity in the farming sector and reduced the need for agricultural workers.

Recognize that men are enslaved on fishing boats to farm shrimp, kids are harvesting chocolate, and that factory workers in China are not being paid for the stuff you're buying on the cheap at your local discount store.

Economists can argue that the workers in the new factories were no worse off than they had been as peasants on English farms.

Raymond Fung28 argued for a missionary movement among the world's poor so that the slum dwellers, factory workers, street laborers, farm hands, and their families could be confronted with the claims of Jesus.

The video, shot in April 2012, was taken at Wyoming Premium Farms, a pig factory farm in Wheatland, Wyo., owned by Itoham America, Inc., and shows workers kicking living piglets like soccer balls, swinging sick piglets in circles by their hind legs, striking mother pigs with their fists and repeatedly and forcefully kicking them as they resisted leaving their young.

Example # 1: I heard two students talking about factory farm video footage and how disturbed they felt after seeing a worker stomp on a calf's head (see here).

In the document, Milne argued that communism had frightening connotations for most people in Britain «mainly due to ignorance» and he set out a vision where «factories and farms will be run by committees of workers, elected by workers (as in China where this has proved to work very well)».

CELEBRATING THE AMERICAN WORKFORCE ON LABOR DAY Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R,C - Canandaigua) The American worker, in farms, factories and small businesses, makes our country the great place that it is.

Just look at the recalls of fresh produce — it isn't intrinsic trouble with the plants, it's runoff from animal factory farms or cross-contamination from poor hygiene practices of the workers processing the plants.

The leaderless initiative includes a legal defense fund to help working - class women - like cleaners, nurses and workers at farms, factories, restaurants and hotels - protect themselves from sexual misconduct and the fallout from reporting it.

Along with a request that women walking the red carpet at the Golden Globes speak out and raise awareness by wearing black, the initiative includes a legal defense fund, backed by $ 13 million in donations, to help less privileged women — like janitors, nurses, farm and factory workers, waitresses, hotel housekeepers — protect themselves from sexual misconduct and the fallout from reporting it; legislation to penalize companies that tolerate persistent harassment, and to discourage the use of nondisclosure agreements to silence victims; and a drive to at long last reach gender parity at studios and talent agencies that reportedly has already begun making headway.

Secondly, while teachers may not be well - paid compared to lawyers and doctors, compared to many other unionized jobs (farm and factory workers, for instance), they are relatively well paid — they are college graduates after all.

Imagine a farm, firm, or factory with workers grouped by age, or employment cycles that begin and end arbitrarily.

In occupation there were schoolboys, farm labourers, office workers, factory workers, estate workers, forestry people and even two seamen.

That is the very purpose of the measures dubbed as ag - gag bills — bills that criminalize taking pictures of animals on farms or the hiring of an animal advocate as a worker at a factory farm.

Factory farm animals routinely have their throats cut, are boiled and dismembered alive — and while fully conscious — by workers under extreme pressure to produce a high output.

Images of jazz and street life, farms and factories, workers and families captured a changing America, from Thomas Hart Benton's Midwest to Jacob Lawrence's Harlem.

Its central figure, a factory worker, is flanked by smaller scenes of ordinary people at a picnic, in a parlor, on a farm and in a schoolroom.

Discuss how food choices have an impact on a range of issues, including ecosystem health, factory and farm worker treatment, and our global economy.

Our food choices affect ecosystem health, how harvesters and factory workers are treated, the health of farm workers, which foods are grown and sold, how humanely animals are treated, and even how much carbon dioxide and methane are released into the atmosphere.

Each session addresses the impact of individual food choices on a range of issues, including ecosystem health, the treatment of factory and farm workers, and the global economy.

The Farming Kindergarten serves the children of low - income factory workers based at an adjacent shoe factory (Photo: Hiroyuki Oki)

Each session includes readings, short assignments and accompanying discussion questions that address the impact of individual food choices on a range of issues, including ecosystem health, the treatment of factory and farm workers, and the global economy.

With the help of NWEI's course book, students were able to address living conditions of workers on tomato farms, genetically modified organisms, food sovereignty issues, food waste, pesticides, overfishing, factory farms, fair trade certification as well as explore personal eating habits and choices.

Due to the large amount of factory and farm workers in Indiana, the population here is exposed to higher than average workplace accident rates.