Tag: slave labor
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China Easing Up On Its One Child Policy and Forced Labor Camps
from seattletimes.com: President Xi Jinping announced Friday the most sweeping package of economic, social and legal reforms in China in decades, including a relaxation of the country’s “one-child” policy and the scrapping of its much-criticized system of labor camps. The changes rolled back harsh social policies that dated back to Communist China’s two most eminent…
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Feds Hit Family Farms With ‘Labor Laws’ for the Children
from naturalnews.com: New labor laws being proposed by the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) would prohibit children from performing many of the routine farm chores they have been involved with for centuries, which some see as a direct attack on small-scale agriculture… The Daily Caller reports that the DoL, under the guidance of the Obama…
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12/1 binge & purge: probe, trap, addict
nestle ‘sure’ child labour occurs in supply chain, allows probe* major organic seed company owned by pro-gmo group* food production must cut fossil-fuel dependence, fao says* ‘energy smart’ agriculture needed to escape fossil fuel trap* family says in-flight meal killed flier* confessions of a former coke addict* assets of bankrupt yarnell’s ice cream co. sold…
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9/1 Binge & Purge: Sugar, Slave, Blast
Antifreeze-tainted vinegar kills 11 in China, 120 poisoned* Foreign students protest slave labor at Hershey’s* One injured in ADM blast near Clinton, Iowa* video: Vitamin Water exposed as sugar water in Food Investigations*
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lawsuit: whole foods ‘organic’ china veggies from polluted prisons
you won’t hear about this in the ‘whole foods parking lot’… from bloomberg: A Florida judge allowed a lawsuit to proceed that claims Whole Foods Market Inc. (WFMI) violated the state’s deceptive trade-practices law by selling frozen vegetables from China grown in a polluted region by prisoners and certified as organic. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge…