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Slaughterhouse children: The dark truth behind the meat you eat

Slaughterhouse children: The dark truth behind the meat you eat

In towns across America, children working in dangerous jobs in slaughterhouses is an open secret. Data from the Labor Department says that children are illegally working at alarming rates. NBC News takes you inside these slaughterhouses in an investigation that spans six states, two countries, dozens of interviews and thousands of pages of public records.

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