05-09-2008, 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted by nhboy  Child labor in Mexico puts food on tables of Americans
"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." Child labor in Mexico puts food on tables of Americans | I guess that's what happens when you send your willing workers illegally out of the country. |
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