And these indentured servants that get this news now know what it takes to shed some light on this bullshit. Just fuck things up in ways that will go public.

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 state of Arizona makes more than twice the money controlling prisoners than the people doing the actual labor.

ACAB. All the way up and down the chain. It's all slave catching shit.

I had deduced that from the fact that their workers are forced to shit in the field without adequate bathroom breaks. That's the only way this could have gone down.

Guess the US is going to have to tariff itself.

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,

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

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...

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:

It turns out that Taylor Farms, the agricultural company widely believed to be behind the cyclospora outbreak currently raging throughout the US, is also heavily involved in modern-day forced labor.

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.)

When your morals are depraved and your workers are enslaved

If I was forced to pick YOUR lettuce, I'd shit in your food on purpose.

The diarrhea lettuce slavery company.

Hell of a legacy there, Bruce (Taylor)!

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?

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company which was the source of the Trumporrhea Outbreak of 2026

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.

And as usually the us government is projecting by introducing "forced labor tariffs" to Canada and EU

$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.)

That leaves plenty of money for lawyers in any upcoming lawsuits.

A million bucks can cover a multitude of sins.

Diarrhea runs in their family.

Forced labor leads to forced shit-geysering.

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?

The way those assholes have acted, they deserve to go out of business over this.

it already resulted in a couple deaths.

Im sick of this every company is hot fascist garbage timeline

Prison labor is slave labor. Also, forced labor is never more profitable than well paid labor. You want to know why their food is giving people the Trumpiarrhea. You think a slave is ever going to care about planting, picking, wash, and package your produce correctly? No they are going to take a shit right on your salad and gleefully pack it up for you.

If I was forced to pick YOUR lettuce, I would shit in your food.

Only a living wage can prevent cyclospora..