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Monday, April 07, 2008

you wonder why other countries hate us?

our big businesses like using slave labor and child labor.
agricultural corporations cargill and archer daniels midland have started an aggressive lobbying effort to drop a provision from the farm bill which would establish a voluntary certification program related to imports made using forced labor and child labor.

section 3104 of the farm bill, called voluntary certification of child labor status of agricultural imports, would provide a method which producers of agricultural products could use to certify that their products are free of child labor and forced labor. the department of labor, under the trafficking victims protection reauthorization act of 2005, is compiling a list of imported goods believed to be produced using forced labor or child labor – conditions which violate international standards.

seventy percent of the world’s child labor is concentrated in the agricultural sector, where vulnerable children toil in blazing heat, exposed to dangerous farm machinery and deadly pesticides. working children are also deprived of an adequate education. provision 3104 would provide a step forward in working to eliminate the worst forms of child labor and forced labor around the world, in conformance with existing u.s. and international law. - common dreams
so...when you see these two companies advertise on the sunday bobblehead teevee shows, keep in mind they are paying big moolah to dc insiders to keep from "voluntarily" certify their products don't involve child or slave labor.

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posted by Cookie Jill at 7:44 PM |

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commented by Anonymous Anonymous, 8:07 PM PDT  
But children's tears make the Cargill chocolate extra sweet.
commented by Anonymous acallidryas, 10:17 AM PDT  
For a few years, in the Nineties, Cargill were dealing direct with farmers in the UK, buying grain. Eventually, they gave up. It was one of their buyers who tried to persaude me to grow spelt, an early type of wheat, which had no commercial value but attracted a considerable EU subsidy as seed.

Luckily, I stayed out of that. Btween the sales pitch and planting of the crop, and the harvest, the EU plugged the subsidy loophole with extreme prejudice,

As it happened, I bought a cheap copy of Lotus Smartsuite at about the same time, and noticed that the letters I'd been getting from Cargill were using one of the supplied letterhead templates--not even a Cargill-specific logo.

And while they were operating around here, a couple of long-established traders went bust. Coincidence?
commented by Blogger Dave, 4:20 AM PDT  

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