Biden on safety of food workers: 'No worker's life is worth my getting a cheaper hamburger'
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday during a Yahoo News virtual town hall said that the safety of food workers should be valued more than the price of a hamburger.
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- Let me ask you, following up on that, if we regulate these meat processing plants more aggressively, if we add new regulations, you're going to drive up the price of meat. And so I guess the question is, is that a bargain we should ask the American people to make? One follows the other.
JOE BIDEN: Absolutely, positively. No worker's life is worth my getting a cheaper hamburger. No worker's life is worth that.
That's what the [? hell has ?] happened here. There used to be a basic bargain in America. If you participate in the enterprise that made a profit, you're going to have to share in that profit.
When it made laws, you shared in the laws. What is it today? We don't treat the workers well at all across the board.
