I Would Not Like to Buy the World a Coke

From corporate co-optation of education, to Dasani bottling fraud, to drying up the aquifers of Indian farmlands, to selling Coke in India with DDT, to likely being complicit in Colombian paramilitary groups killing union leaders at their bottling plants, to just generally being unhealthy, Coca-Cola is high on my list of amoral corporations. But John [...]

CNN Showing Child Labour, Sweatshops and Fair Trade Initiatives

Tonight on Aaron Brown’s Newsnight we meet the maker of the documentary “Stolen Childhoods.” Child slavery, sweatshop conditions, fair trade short term remedies then were discussed by a clothing manufacturer with a stern voice stating how they have to supervise their contractors and a professor talking about the inadequacy of band-aid solutions. It’s nice to [...]

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