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Previously on "Bondage in the Thai Prawn Industry"
Not sure why anyone was shocked, I and a number of others suggested using trade agreements to push employment welfare standards with the side effect of lessening the landslide of Globalisation and I was accused of protectionism.
We need to make it clear the UK doesn't buy goods made by abused labour.
Same can be said of polluters, we insulate our keyholes while India & China build filthy power stations & factories.
This sounds like a good policy. We can ban all imports from the East and start to make stuff again.
Not sure why anyone was shocked, I and a number of others suggested using trade agreements to push employment welfare standards with the side effect of lessening the landslide of Globalisation and I was accused of protectionism.
We need to make it clear the UK doesn't buy goods made by abused labour.
Same can be said of polluters, we insulate our keyholes while India & China build filthy power stations & factories.
Last time I bought prawns I was shocked to discover they were from Bangladesh. Knowing the feeding habits of the average crustacean and knowing the levels of pollution in that neck of the woods I decided never again.
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