KlugerHans

What's your estimate of the percentage of migrant workers, legal or otherwise?

Do you think their residence status curtails complaints about working conditions or animal cruelty? Thanks.

I definitely think animal agriculture and these companies are the issue and not the underpaid workers whose livelihood is routinely pitted against animal welfare.

Not pitting anything. I just wanted to get a feel of who's doing all this "dirty work". Perhaps if we didn't have access to this cheap and obedient workforce there wouldn't be enough willing people to keep these companies in business.

I agree. We had a huge meat recall at Canada's largest slaughterhouse (XL Foods) 3 years ago. 1/3 of the labour force there are migrants and their forced silence was probably responsible for the E. coli outbreak.

http://www.ohscanada.com/features/silence-on-the-floor/