Within one state, thousands of people can drink 57,983,026,785,314,980,859 cans of soda per year. Coca-Cola supplies soda to over two hundred countries. Have you ever wondered, what goes on behind the scenes?
In an article edtitled, "Coca-Cola Under Fire for Exploiting Child Labor in El Salvador," we read that Coca-Cola continually digs itself into their public relations hole. Coke, accused of privatizing and monopolizing Africa's natural water supply and sucking up India's vital groundwater sources. By doing such its harming the country's agricultural industry and food supply by polluting El Salvador's remaining water and soil. Coke in addition indirectly condons Salvadoran child labor, which violates local and international laws. Another article states coke violates child labor from El Salvador's sugar cane field, they are indirectly benefiting from the use of child labor in sugarcane fields in El Salvador. It is said that more or less seventeen and a half thousand Salvadoran children as young as eight are working in these plantations, where they can be severely hurt from the conditions there. The injuries are a problem because he children would have to pay for their own medical treatment. These children are also required to miss several months of school each year in order to work on these farms. Even thought Coca- Cola does not own any of the plantations or buys the can directly, they buy the sugar milled from the cane from El Salvador's largest sugar mill, which still holds them accountable.
Even thought under Salvadoran law the minimum age, for working is fourteen. Coca-Cola buys from the supplier mill, the company is aware that the sugar it refines is harvested in part by child labor, which is stated by HRW. These children are called helpers not employees. Can you see now the process of soda, particularly Coca -cola in these articles? Many enjoy these soft drinks and other products, which we buy unknowingly of what is behind the process of all the ingredients in these products.
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