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Pretty powerful headline. My first thought was “literally? How?”

> My first thought was “literally? How?”

The ones sent to go swimming with the fishes

Blood <=> Suffering/Violence/Death is standard English.

It's actually definition #2 on google "Blood: 2. violence involving bloodshed."

A lot of things that are “standard English” are not obvious, and not everyone has English as a first language.

...it was pretty obvious. Did you assume it was literally dipped in human blood before export or something?

I'm curious how the metaphor is so far from one's mind when reading.

I mean it certainly evoked The Jungle to me.

It took me a minute to figure out if they were talking about a biosafety problem or a labour safety problem. Maybe that’s just me.