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Global Food Trade & the New Slave Labour

from Indycymru | 16.12.2005 10:19 | Bio-technology | Globalisation | Social Struggles

See  http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GFTNSL.php for How globalisation links UK’s Tesco supermarket chain to colonial-style farming in South Africa that exploits farm-workers especially women and perpetrates poverty.

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16.12.2005 16:02

African farm workers don't want a Boycott of Tesco. This is still problematic as we should not be buying frombig supermarkets and importers anyway - this just perpeutates the misery - it's a Catch-22 siutation. tesco and co rip off farmers worldwide( backed up o fcourse by the arms industry ). Either way, in ANY nation state the poorget ripped off by the rich - and rich nation states rip off poor ( usually mineral and resources rich ) states. Just ask the ANC and their Free Trade Zones -some might see them as yet another sellout to the IMF and WTO.

The problem( very briefly ) are monocultures ( soil erosion, micro-ecosystem destruction, social- not growing for ones own needs) , global trade, corporations (supermarkets/foodmultinationals/armstrade etc ) and landlordism perputate this as well as changing our climateand polutting our water..

There will never be 'trade justice' as the history of landownership/exploitation which is built intothe concpets of capitalist trade negate this whether in England or Africa. You cannot have 'fair trade' when land needs to be given backto the people of the planet- otherwise yuouperpetuate the misery until eco-collapse ans wave goodbye planet for everyone. Join the dots there is plentyof evidence and you don't need a fucking PH-middleclass-D to do it.

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Spoilt Meat

17.12.2005 00:17

Christmas Turkey Hormones has some sense until the last sentence. While there are some PhDs who fuck, there are others who do not. Nearly all the PhDs I know are working class, or should we reclassify working class to mean only those who are out of work. And yes, I know PhDs in that class also, over qualified to be given a job to get them off the dole. Come to think of it, I do not know one spolit rich brat who had the gumption to get a PhD, and I know some of them too. Just as I know PhDs who are down and out and homeless.

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