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.)
Also, this specific species is only passed, as far as we are aware, through HUMAN faeces. From what I can tell by reading the WHO’s analysis of the organism from a few years back, it was either caused by watering the plants with water FULL of infested faecal matter, or fertilising them with fresh human shit.
Yes. It’s industrial scale contamination. Not workers shitting in fields.