Is cheap labor, endangering our health and safety ?

Question

Cheap labor, is far to expensive. Are we now expected to put are lives at risk to help corporations reduce their overhead production costs?


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/12/06/national/a070822S22.DTL&feed=rss.news

This is the second outbreak in less then a year, our food source is being jeprodised as well as our health and saftey. Is it time for our elected officials to admit Illegal immigration and NAFTA is not working?




NOTE: I had to reask this question due to a miswording, I appologise to everyone that answerd earlier.

MEXICAN BANDIDO : Yeah you would .

me me me - I belive illegal immigration, and free trade are being promoted by the same basic group of people. Think about it... who will benifit most from these? It is not the American people, and probally 10 - 20 years from now it will not be the people from Mexico or Canada.

Mendi8a I read it in my news paper, so i found the article online. Did you take time to read the link, or are you just saying " NO " so you can make a postive statement for your own person cause.

Answer 1

Alright, that had nothing to do with illegal immigration. All it had to do with was contaminated produce that was imported from another country, that just happened to be Mexico. We have all sorts of produce and meat that is imported from other countries and there have been similar things take place...remember the mad cow thing?? If you have issues about illegal immigration...fine...but at least pick your fight properly.

Answer 2

As You Stated
This is the second outbreak in less then a year

I Don't Care What ANYONE Says
Thats WAY TOO MUCH For It To Be An Accidental Occurance

I Believe That These Contaminations Were INTENTIONAL
And I Also Believe It Will Happen More And More

We Are At WAR

This War Is NOT CONFINED To The Middle East

There Are Many Factions At Work Trying To Destroy Us
And I Think This Is An Attempt To Hurt Our Citizens

And I Do Believe There Is A Connection
To The ... Ahem ..."Cheap Labor"

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Answer 3

Omg Why would you even bring this up it happens, it is an awful situation but has nothing to do with cheap labor. We would have the same problem once in a while if we paid someone more for their veggies. So just be careful you could go to a restaurant that hires no immigrants and gets it's produce locally and still have an outbreak of something. Please, you really have no point. If these (cheap labor) people were so disgusting then it would happen much more.

Answer 4

i do not imagine it concerns precisely the position the money comes from this is going to fee so a lot more advantageous money than what it does as we talk. If those costs are exceeded on to the patron then all of us will pay for it that way if legislations is exceeded to boost up taxes to cover it then (those without sensible accountants will probably ought to pay) the established public will pay. IF the fee spiral must be managed as is replaced into hoping with techniques from Obama then the properly-being besides because the profitability of yankee employer will strengthen. the significant earnings of wide-spread wellbeing care is the humanity afforded with techniques from getting help to those in favor. Reluctance and scoffing at its proposed earnings is hence the vast ABUSE perpetrated with techniques from unscrupulous operators who've been defrauding the Medicare & different structures. the european gadget of fee extra tax is a validation of the theory of all members paying a percentage for the easy good---it sounds truly large yet my pal in Germany who has corollary economic issues has no clinical coverage and is tax broke besides!! Germany remains determining to purchase the absorption of Deutsche Demokratische Republic so gained't be a honest parallel even although our gadget is overburdened with welfare for adverse human beings and for Wall highway. on the grounds that our authorities is now interior the employer of bailing out failed organizations even as they attain a particular length what's the definition of earnings any way ??

Answer 5

Of course it is. To cut cost's of health and safety is to put either the product or the worker at risk. If you have a country in the "global" scheme of things that looks only at one thing and not another....we are all at risk.

Answer 6

The impact of immigration on our public health is often overlooked. Although millions of visitors for tourism and business come every year, the foreign population of special concern is illegal residents, who come most often from countries with endemic health problems and less developed health care. They are of greatest consequence because they are responsible for a disproportionate share of serious public health problems, are living among us for extended periods of time, and often are dependent on U.S. health care services

Because illegal immigrants, unlike those who are legally admitted for permanent residence, undergo no medical screening to assure that they are not bearing contagious diseases, the rapidly swelling population of illegal aliens in our country has also set off a resurgence of contagious diseases that had been totally or nearly eradicated by our public health system.

According to Dr. Laurence Nickey, director of the El Paso heath district "Contagious diseases that are generally considered to have been controlled in the United States are readily evident along the border ... The incidence of tuberculosis in El Paso County is twice that of the U.S. rate. Dr. Nickey also states that leprosy, which is considered by most Americans to be a disease of the Third World, is readily evident along the U.S.-Mexico border and that dysentery is several times the U.S. rate ... People have come to the border for economic opportunities, but the necessary sewage treatment facilities, public water systems, environmental enforcement, and medical care have not been made available to them, causing a severe risk to health and well being of people on both sides of the border.

"The pork tapeworm, which thrives in Latin America and Mexico, is showing up along the U.S. border, threatening to ravage victims with symptoms ranging from seizures to death. ... The same [Mexican] underclass has migrated north to find jobs on the border, bringing the parasite and the sickness"cysticercosis"its eggs can cause[.] Cysts that form around the larvae usually lodge in the brain and destroy tissue, causing hallucinations, speech and vision problems, severe headaches, strokes, epileptic seizures, and in rare cases death.

The problem, however, is not confined to the border region, as illegal immigrants have rapidly spread across the country into many new economic sectors such as food processing, construction, and hospitality services.
Yes its a huge health concern for all Americans.

Answer 7

No not really..I say keep exploiting them and get the labor as cheap as possible..

Answer 8

that is so nasty. people not washing their hands after using the washroom is sick. I'm so happy i cook all my family's meals at home.

Answer 9

Probably, if they're not trained in whatever they're doing. And training is not cheap.

Answer 10

YES!!!!!!