[P1] truth in advertising...still OT

[Gary D. Adams]

OK. I'll bite now!

Actually, slavery is practiced most widely in Sudan, by Arab Africans 
who are enslaving Christian and animist Africans. Why doesn't Jesse 
Jackson get concerned about that? No money in it.

As for sugar cane, as I understand it, while the machines cut down the 
cane efficiently, they may actually damage to the point of killing 
growing cane if not adjusted properly. Castro still uses "citizens" who 
willingly sacrifice their "vacation" time.

Gary


Jack Rodgers wrote:
> Around the world the list of slave owners most likely included every 
> nation and every ethnic group and every religion.
> 
> There were 'Indian', African and 'white' slaves in the US.
> 
> Slavery was an economic institution and may even be used still in China 
> to help produce those high quality low cost goods we enjoy.
> 
>> 
> One interesting point that I realized recently while drive up sugar 
> alley (27) in South Florida is the change that has occured in the sugar 
> industry. 50 years ago and before the sugar industry was the closest 
> thing left to slavery in how they treated immigrants from the islands 
> lodging them behind barbed wire, cheating them out of their wages and 
> subjecting them to truly cruel work. Now there are large machines that 
> cut down the cane