The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #136084   Message #3105883
Posted By: Dorothy Parshall
02-Mar-11 - 06:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Child Slavery
Subject: RE: BS: Child Slavery
Nestle has been involved in genocide for almost 40 years - supplying infant formula to developing countries. I have been boycotting them - seems like a LONG time. And one has to look carefully - they make al l sorts of stuff.

Child slavery needs to be looked at carefully. In the early 70s when all kinds of neat clothes made in India were cheap, I asked a friend, who had lived there 15 years, about buying that stuff. I was wondering about the cheap labour. But she said, if we don't buy it, they won't even have that - (amount of money). Are families barely surviving on the pittance the child brings home?

What CAN we do about this world situation? How can our respective governments make it better? If enough of us push hard enough?