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In reply to the discussion: Hardship on Mexico's farms, a bounty for U.S. tables [View all]cbayer
(146,218 posts)discretion in what we buy.
This article is focused on companies owned by gringos. They put the smaller, mexican companies out of business.
If you saw these images and they were labor camps in the US, what would you think?
How can we justify allowing this to happen just because these are brown people?
What is Mexico's track record? A better question is, what is the US's track record?
The US is grossly complicit in the problems in Mexico.
It's easy to just say that the Mexican government should fix their problems. It's harder to see how the US feeds those problems and then take some responsibility for our brothers and sisters to the south.
The US government's reluctance is the same as the US consumer's reluctance. We like things cheap and we don't much care how that happens.