- May 2019
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www.thisamericanlife.org www.thisamericanlife.org
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American Life has retracted this story because we learned that many of Mike Daisey's experiences in China were fabricated.
Haven't even continued to read and this makes me wonder if I want to keep going
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There’s always been a moral case for stopping slavery; now there’s an environmental reason too.
I am glad that there are scientific reasons to stop slavery but I am still astonished that the moral reason alone isn't enough. I know that many things would be more expensive but the whole world would go through that together so i feel like everything would balance out eventually
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Out of our sight, slaves numbering in the hundreds of thousands do the work that slaves have done for millennia: digging, cutting, and carrying.
2019 and it still seems like the world has not changed. Businessmen using others to get ahead of there competitors and make some extra money
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Slaves are producing many of the things we buy
I think consumers need to be more educated on where there products come from. If more people knew this I believe they would be against buying these products.
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these men were appalled when they saw footage from the quarries.
Its crazy for me to think that these businessmen, whose job it is to know there product, did not know how it was produced. By enslaved children.
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a bribe here and there
It amazes me how easy a bribe can make some one turn a blind eye, these people are supposed to be protecting these areas
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When a poor family comes looking for work, the quarry bosses are ready to help with an “advance” on wages to help the family settle in.
they take advantage of them. they have nothing so even the littlest wage helps and the bosses know that and it costs them close to nothing
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Granite for German tombstones used to come from the beautiful Harz Mountains, but now no one is allowed to mine there and risk spoiling this protected national park and favorite tourist destination. So, like France and many other rich countries, including the United States, Germany imports its tombstones from the developing world.
I like that they are protecting natural treasures, hate that I haven't even continued reading and see that its going to be at the cost of other people
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It’s not because they don’t know that people are going to die; it’s more a product of the complete control the government exerts over death and funerals.
I think it is interesting that Germany's government has complete control and made a standard of how someone is to be buried
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