Kathy Lee Gifford: Patron Saint of Labouring Children
Don’t be fooled by Ronald McDonald House, WalMart Children’s Charities or other corporate children’s charities…it’s a front. Today is a reminder that our comfortable lifestyles come at the expense others’ childhoods. Here are some of the most popular offenders you might try and avoid…
WalMart’s clothing manufacturing is contracted out to factories in Bangladesh that use child labour, exploit women and keep them under horrible working conditions. How else can they stay so competitive?
The massive amounts of sugar in Coke comes from sugar cane. As many as 30,000 El Salvadorian children work the sugar cane fields for your affordable can of Coke.
Slavery still exists on the Ivory Coast, where at least 1/3 of cocoa plantation workers are children. And let’s not forget the sugar that makes this bitter bean sweet. Try and support fair trade cocoa next time you have a choco-attack.
A no-brainer.
