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===Working conditions=== Starting in the 1980s, [[Cargill]], [[Conagra Brands]], Tyson Foods and other large food companies moved most slaughterhouse operations to rural areas of the [[Southern United States]] which were more hostile to unionization efforts.<ref>{{cite book |last= Nibert |first=David |editor1=Steven Best|editor2=Richard Kahn|editor3=Anthony J. Nocella II|editor4=Peter McLaren|editor1-link= Steven Best|editor4-link=Peter McLaren|authorlink=David Nibert |date=2011|title=The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination|chapter=Origins and Consequences of the Animal Industrial Complex |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |page=205|url=https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739136973/The-Global-Industrial-Complex-Systems-of-Domination |isbn=978-0739136980}}</ref> Slaughterhouses in the United States commonly illegally employ and exploit underage workers and undocumented immigrants.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-29/america-s-worst-graveyard-shift-is-grinding-up-workers |title=America's Worst Graveyard Shift Is Grinding Up Workers |last=Waldman |first=Peter |date=29 December 2017 |website=Bloomberg Businessweek |access-date=23 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/08/exploitation-and-abuse-at-the-chicken-plant |title=Exploitation and Abuse at the Chicken Plant |last=Grabell |first=Michael |date=1 May 2017 |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=23 May 2019}}</ref> In 2010, [[Human Rights Watch]] described slaughterhouse line work in the United States as a human rights crime.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.hrw.org/report/2010/12/11/rights-line/human-rights-watch-work-abuses-against-migrants-2010 |title=Rights on the Line |journal=Human Rights Watch |date=11 December 2010 |access-date=23 May 2019|last1=Varia |first1=Nisha }}</ref> In a report by [[Oxfam America]], slaughterhouse workers were observed not being allowed breaks, were often required to wear diapers, and were paid below minimum wage.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oxfamamerica.org/livesontheline/ |title=Live on the Live |last=Grabell |first=Michael |website=Oxfam America |date=23 May 2018 |access-date=23 May 2019}}</ref>
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