Move “Unemployed” Workers into US Agricultural & Meat Processing Industries

The politicized media hue and cry about high unemployment surging through society goes hand in hand with stimulus checks being handed out without any quid pro quo.  Surely companies can find some menial jobs that can be done, even at home, to take away the humiliating stigma of welfare.

      It is not surprising that workers will welcome being paid to do nothing, but it is even stranger how broadcasters always pretend to be flabbergasted about how human nature really works.  The other oddity of life today is that it is considered cruel and inhumane to ask people to work at less-attractive tasks, despite having few skills above the minimum.

      Agricultural and meat processing industries must be the lowest of the low, even lower than welfare.   America’s number one problem today is the need to seduce foreign workers away from their back-home birthright heritage to do jobs that even the most unskilled Americans find beneath them.  Luring immigrants under the guise of political refuge is unseemly.  This has been continuous in our culture since the advent of slavery in 1691.

    Society insists on having the cheapest possible food, so paying these workers exploitive wages is understandable.  Who wants to pay more for a head of lettuce—or tear themselves away from ubiquitous entertainments to spend time in their own gardens? Ask Cesar Chavez.

    Our current COVID-19 pandemic also reveals how deeply rooted the Democratic Party’s deployment of political correctness continues to be.  Our “free” handful of mainstream media outlets will report that coronavirus outbreaks are especially common in crowded cities and in meat processing plants across America, but they must have been told not to mention that the percentage of foreign workers and immigrants in those companies is extremely high.

      Only secondary news sources, the kind that can be easily overlooked, do the reporting that’s been common now for decades:  “Immigrant Workers in the United States Meat and Poultry Industry” and “Meat processing across the Midwest largely done by immigrants” and “Immigration and Meatpacking in the Midwest” and “Agricultural foreign worker decline becomes global issue” and “A Decade of Dangerous Food Imports from China.”

    Is it considered racial profiling (and therefore racist) to mention these facts or that Smithfield’s meat processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is owned by China, as are all the Smithfield plants across the US?   Is it also politically incorrect to reference the high number of foreign workers in most other meat processing plants in America as well, especially in the context of high-incidences of COVID-19 cases and deaths?  Company representatives and government bureaucrats quickly say that they have seen No Direct Evidence reported, but wasn’t the same thing said about a tie-in of AIDs and homosexuality early on?

    Now is the time for South Dakotans and other states to think twice about eating red meat and other foods that aren’t locally grown—especially those processed by immigrants and guest workers.  China is still like Third World countries that aren’t too picky about sanitary conditions, having teeming millions of always hungry people.  Let each country feed its own people, while importing menial workers and foodstuffs at its own peril.  In the US, thorough FDA-like scrutiny of all imports across the spectrum should monitor for possible contagions.  The same goes for tourists and technological immigrants to the country. Rich Democrats can live in high-walled, gated communities with ample social distancing, but the rest of us can’t.