During a short period of my youth, I had the honor of working for the famous food processing company known as Holloway House (Green Giant)My job one afternoon was to help with making the sauce for a frozen pasta concoction. A teevee dinner kind of delicacy. I stood over a 50 gallon electric bowl with a chopper blade thrashing about as I dumped in a 25 pound bag of yellow onions and some number of bags of dry dog food. Later in life I hear about how some brands of dry dog food contained ground up portions of road kill. This was back in 1971, in Lafayette Indiana. And to think how much of a row ho is put up about how Monsanto is poisoning humanity with those terrible GMOs.
I never even considered child labor stuff in the United States at the time but I remember having worked in at least 3 factories before the age of 17, as well as working on a construction team building condominiums in Sandestin Florida.
Common factor connecting all of my job experience before age 18 is that no employer at that time even once asked for any identification/proof of age.
Random discussion, eh.
12 Sep 2014, 12:06 am
