Federal agents found more than two dozen minors illegally working inside a poultry plant in Kidron, Ohio, earlier this month, according to local immigration advocates who spoke to NBC News on the condition of anonymity.
The children, mainly from Guatemala, according to the advocates, were working in meat processing and sanitation in a plant run by Gerber’s Poultry, which produces Amish Farm Chicken, advertised with the slogan “Better feed, better taste.”
I feel like any poultry farm you walk into is going to be breaking labor laws…
They’re usually in poor rural areas tho, where people need the work. So local sherrifs and any other elected officials aren’t going after them.
That’s the reason there’s a lot of states with carved out exemptions around child labor laws for anything remotely related to agriculture.