“They might have guns but we have flowers”

[Contrary1]

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. Oh my.

[jwirr]

2. Of all the things I have watched this week that video of a

father and his son makes the most sense.

Thank you.

[jberryhill]

3. Where they get the flowers is interesting

Well, yes, France has flowers. But most flowers sold in France do not come from France.

http://multinationales.org/Where-do-our-flowers-come-from

In East Africa, salaries for greenhouse workers, mostly women, are not high enough to cover basic needs, according to the organization Women Working WorldWide, whose study of 38,000 women working in horticultural farms in East Africa showed that the average monthly salary for a Kenyan worker was between 59 and 94 dollars, and between 28 and 46 dollars for their Ethiopian counterparts. [4] When a consumer buys a rose in Europe for 1,5 €, only 0,03 € will make it into the pockets of the people who grew it, 2% of the retail price. A rose is sold at 0,12 € per stem upon leaving the farm. After its arrival in Amsterdam, it is bought for 0,8 € by the retailer. Between the two ends of the chain, the difference is divided among middlemen, as well as paying for the transport, especially air travel. [5]