‘Frontline’ reveals ‘Trafficked’ teens slaving on farms

As producers Daffodil Altan and Andres Cediel (“Rape in the Fields”) document, the young workers at Trillium Farms in Ohio, one of the nation’s largest egg producers, turning out 10 million eggs a day, found the American dream to be a nightmare. At one facility, captured on a bit of harrowing hidden camera footage, conditions were hellish, there were narrow halls barely big enough for a person, with rows atop rows of caged, squawking hens.“The manure falls in your eyes,” one worker says.Shifts started at 6 a.m. and, if workers were lucky, ended at 5 p.m. The plant temperature was over 90 degrees. The stench was so bad, many had to bolt to an exit to hurl.Workers’ quarters were about as vile as the living conditions for the hens. They were packed into trailers with no heat, no air conditioners and no running water. Their earnings were confiscated. If they tried to leave, they were threatened and abused.