Child labor in Mexico puts food on tables of Americans

[Phx_Dem]

MEXICO CITY

Ten-year-old Adriana Salgado spends her days in a field in northwestern Mexico, picking the spinach, cabbage and other vegetables that fill American salad bowls. Adriana doesn't know how to read. She attends school for only one hour a day.

Her 15-year-old sister, who works with her, can't read, either. Adriana had an 8-year-old brother, too, until he was crushed to death by a tractor while working in a tomato field last year.

About 300,000 youngsters such as Adriana work illegally in Mexico's fields, the U.N. Children's Fund says, making child labor a major link in the chain that increasingly supplies American dinner tables.

More at:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0509childlabor0509.html

[OhioChick]

1. Child Labor...

This should be a crime.....Wait, I thought it was?

[blindpig]

2. Good old NAFTA...

And where is all of that "organic" corporate food coming from? And what exactly do they mean by organic?

We subsist on the backs of the world.

[Gormy Cuss]

3. But cheap fruits and vegetables are good for us.

Nice to hear yet another way that NAFTA is helping everyone in the Americas.
:sarcasm: