Could be cocaine-cola too...
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/04/1678261.php
All the US companies are doing it. If you haven't been watching that new PBS show Colonial House, there was a black man that was a 'free' man - just indentured to pay off his debt on it. He realized that from where things were in the 1600's it was a really easy slide to realize that you couldn't really expect a poor person to work for almost no wages - much better to buy a person.
Now the companies that financed buying America (or their bastard children) are buying our government and using it to take over other countries where they are desperate enough to accept the wages. The problem is - a lot of the people that work in the factories know they are being ripped off, so they try to do what America did and create unions. But then they get killed by governments that the US government supports.
Wow man. I'm glad you found the straight dope on corporate America on the internet. Those execs will be POed when they find out it is out there.
I'm not saying that corporations are perfect. Believe me, I know first hand that they aren't. I know they do a lot of stuff in other markets that they could never get away with in the U.S. But if you don't realize 85% of the stuff on those sites are just as false and agenda-driven as the "we hate child labor" stuff that corporate
PR departments churn out, you should really cut back on the smoke.
One day a journalist told me he trusted the word of corporate
PR person over that of almost any activist because there were real consequences for corporate
PR people caught lying. Activists, he said, will usually say whatever it takes to get their cause on the 11 o'clock news.
Now leaving my soap box.