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Old 05-08-2009, 20:19   #8
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Re: Is our food too cheap?

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Originally Posted by entwisi View Post
I watched a program teh other night about prawn farms in Indonisia. they worked for pennies and lived in squalor as a result of our incessant demand for cheaper prawns . now I am in favour of intensive rearing as per teh chicken thread but this was real people living in crap as a direct result of our demands so was not teh same thing IMHO.
Works the same for manufactured goods too .... Corporations don't move their operations overseas to benefit the indigenous populations .... but we want cheap Nikes etc.
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