Modern-Day Slavery and the Big Game
"...11-year old boy, Abu, a scrawny yet handsome kid, with long arms, skinny legs, and eyes as bright as a full moon. Abu was working on the Firestone plantation. He had been "helping his dad from before the sun was up." Abu explained how he started at 4:30 a.m. cleaning the storage cups, applying chemicals and pesticides to trees, and then moving on to collect the white rubber sap streaming down each tree Abu poured the cup of rubber sap into a large bucket. Then he hoisted two of these buckets onto a pole to move from tree to tree.
When the buckets were full, each weighing 75 pounds, Abu struggled and winced in pain but carried his load a mile up the road to vast storage tanks where the rubber would be poured into tanker trucks and taken to a processing area before shipment to America. Abu shared his dream of one day becoming a doctor. Yet, unable to go to school and used as a beast of burden, that's quite unlikely. He and countless other children exploited on the Firestone rubber plantation have no way out."
Another US giant giving us what we want, tires, on the backs of children, polluting their future in the process. Acceptable?
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