Meat factories pay very well for someone with no skills. I for one I am grateful for being given the opportunity to work in meatpacking industry for a summer.

Point. It's easy to assume that the alternative to bad_job is better_job, when in fact it's no_job.

It's good to fight for better working conditions for all, but not without remembering the lowest-end of the wage ladder.

(Which isn't to be interpreted as an argument against minimum wage increases, but rather that there needs to be an on-ramp for those who didn't grow up with privilege)

This is precisely why instead of forcing people to work under dangerous conditions we should be paying people to stay home and accepting slow-downs in production.

We definitely don't want a slow down in food production.

But we do want people getting paid low wages to continue working for low wages even though their risks are higher because they made choices or were born into circumstances that led them to not have work from home jobs.

No one will die from not having meat for every single meal. Especially the climate could actually benefit from reducing meat intake, given that especially cattle are a large impact on co2 - not to mention all the rainforest in South America being razed for beef lots and beef feed material.