In the article fast food nation by Eric Schlosser talks about how the meatpacking industry once provided a middle-class Americans life now offered little more than poverty wages.
Once upon time people were able to live well and afford to have a living, but in todays world two-thirds of the workers at the beef plant in Greeley cannot speak English. They are Mexican immigrants, and their hourly wages is more than a third lower than what it was 40 years ago when the plant opened, but now things have change these companies with promising vocational pay, after a year and health insurance after six months of working other companies now that a third of the people don’t even speak English. So these companies know that people in Mexico are poor and they promise this dream that if they work for them they will have the American dream giving them false hope. I believe what they are doing to these innocent people is wrong. Corporation know that they are looking for a better life and takes advantage of their hopes and dreams, not giving them the chance to live by the USA motto "the American dream". A company picked Thirty nine people was to work from across the border and promised steady work and housing but instead they was dropped off at a homeless shelter but it was nothing but a set back for the company and the workers got fed up and most left the shelter. Also meat packing use to be a morsel class life style if you worked their but now it offers little more than poverty wages plus not really getting health insurance no vacation or sick days off and bad pay. I wish such a thing didn't exist but it does and it needs to be stopped
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