Tamika Reynolds
09/25/09
3:49pm
Soc 202
Reported by CNN News is that Child from Malawi are being exposed to toxic levels of nicotine because they work on tobacco farms. On these Tobacco farms children from ages 5-14 are suffering from abusive labor conditions. These children are paid 17 cents for a 12 hour day. They are not given gloves or time to bathe. They have no vents to prevent them from inhaling the tobacco. Malawi denies these findings and say they have been work for 2 years to eliminate child labor. Plan International reports the effect of the abusive exposure from tobacco. They state that tobacco is water soluble so if it rains and the children’s clothes get wet the nicotine from the tobacco will absorb into the clothes making the children’s outfit a giant nicotine patch.
I find these findings to be an outrage. I am mad at two things right now. One is child labor, in this day and time how could anyone feel child labor is appropriate? The second thing is Globalization. How do these big manufacturers sleep at night? The worst thing is these children are orphans! So they have no one to run too if they feel abused. They work for meager day and no time to rest. These children are slowly dying and yet no one is doing anything about it. Now that it has been brought out in the open is anyone going to help them or are we just going sit back and say…..“Oh that’s horrible,” after we sip our tea and change the channel.
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1 comment:
wow- that is so terriable. kids have been forced to work in bad conditions for ages but i still hate to hear about mistreatment of kids. I think it is insane that they even have kids working that kind of job, my uncle used to own a tobacco farm, and i remember how hard the people would work all day long. it was a rough job for anyone, and i can not imagine forcing children into that kind of work.I agree with what you said about not knowing how tobacco corperations could sleep at night- how can people be so cruel for money!
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