• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 年前

    the mechanism of outsourcing/contracting/subcontracting is invariably framed as a business strategy to "cut costs", but i stg it seems like 90% of that "cost cutting" is in the form of obscuring liability for heinous shit.

    JBS is the largest meat packer on the planet. they are the parent of every every brand you have ever heard of, their C-level is full of "former" government officials throughout the americas and they pay heavy to play everywhere they want.

    the fact that their corporate logo was shown in b-roll on a flag for less than 2 seconds on this story made me raise my eyebrows, because you almost never hear their name in the mouth of someone on TV. there is no chance they receive even a light hand-slapping over this, despite them having the most power, culpability, and benefit from this practice.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 年前

      Were these the guys that sued Oprah for saying she didn't like hamburgers?

      • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 年前

        no, that appears to have been a politically connected association of cattlemen in texas. JBS makes that kind of group look like 4 kids running a lemonade stand.