Farms: Harsh conditions for US child workers
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Hundreds of children working on tobacco farms in the US are being exposed to nicotine and other toxic chemicals. Human Rights Watch interviewed more than 140 children about the working conditions in US tobacco fields. Kimberly Halkett reports from Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Mass production involving child labour of highly addictive drug responsible for millions of deaths worldwide. The mass production of this commodity of death results in the generalized spoiling of the environment, depletion of fresh water resources, and poisoning of humans through the overuse of pesticides. This is just one example of the lunacy of this system into which we were born of production driven by profit.
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dont do the work if all u going to do is moan.
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18 to purchase and 10 to work the fields
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Glad I quit a year ago. Let's e-cig those fuckers out of existence.
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Leader of the free world... But your kids are in the same type of jobs as the 3rd world
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THIS IS FKED UP
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Oh God! I wouldn't even send adults in hazmat suits In those fields let alone children.
So now let me get this straight, a Country that claims to be a "World Leader", has some of the worst most idioticly harsh smoking laws on the planet, but apparently has no laws whatsoever for child labor on tobacco plants!!! Wow, just wow! These guys wrote the God damn book on hypocrisy! -
just burn those Tobacco fields so this way we kill the smoking business which minimizes the peoples risk of getting Throat Cancer, you dirty greedy Corporate CEOs
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There are people who think unions are bad, how is that possible?