Swamp Demon

the reason it's dangerous to be spreading this narrative is because it puts a spotlight on and scapegoats an already vulnerable group of people (yes scapegoating can happen even when you don't intend it to). what the left calls "farmers not giving farmworkers a place to go to the bathroom or wash their hands" the right will call "illegal aliens shitting on our food." I wouldn't even be surprised to learn that this claim started on the right, and then some left-of-center folks immediately ceded the premise and are now just feeding into the narrative by claiming it's true without any evidence

the one article I did find that mentions farm workers specifically goes out of its way to not single out the workers as the source, but rather as the front line victims. the actual source, as usual, is most likely polluted water (water which, as an aside, is very very often polluted by runoff from factory farming facilities; facilities which this admin has removed almost all regulation for and has oversen major increases in the number of animals crammed into smaller space & "processed" at ever faster speeds).

this article is by Forbes which isn't exactly known for being a super pro-immigration outlet or anything lol

Liebman emphasizes, “I don’t think it’s the farm worker that is at the center of this. I think it has more to do with the crops being contaminated from other sources like irrigation water and then how we process and package our food.” She also speaks about “the fear that’s percolating through this population,” noting “workers being afraid to report anything, fear of losing their job, and fear of being deported.”

The farm workers aren’t provided with sick leave or with reliable access to medical care. Thus, they are the initial victims in this disaster, because of the conditions they are forced to work and live under. They are the proverbial “canaries” in this growing public health crisis.

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This woman in particular has been terrorizing my team for years, her name is almost a slur in my office, I had simply had ENOUGH of her.

I put all of this evidence together and sent it to all of my bosses at 4:30pm. Then I took a long break to eat a sweet treat and drink some tea.

After my break, my bosses all called in an emergency meeting with me and they said they read my report and fucking loved it. And I sat on a teams call with my boss’ boss as she wrote my nemesis the scathing email I had always fantasized about sending, using the evidence I’d compiled, and hit send.