The sugar-rich state of Maharashtra in India supplies companies like Coca-Cola, Pepsico and Unilever. The sugar workers there frequently work under the threat of violence, abduction and murder, our investigation found. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/w... - ThreadSky

nytimes.com • 91 days ago

The sugar-rich state of Maharashtra in India supplies companies like Coca-Cola, Pepsico and Unilever. The sugar workers there frequently work under the threat of violence, abduction and murder, our investigation found. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/world/asia/india-sugar-industry-labor-abuse.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

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indy999.bsky.social•91 days ago

Sounds like where the US is headed.

mustash-erb.bsky.social•91 days ago

PSA: don't drink coke

qualann.bsky.social•91 days ago

Horrific #cocacola #pepsi and I just learned how badly treated the people that make #MontBlanc leather goods are treated and thats in Spain.

sabajue.bsky.social•91 days ago

Workers all over the world suffer immensely at the hands of their bosses.

zedemmonk.bsky.social•91 days ago

When the original international sugar trade started - forming the foundation of our global capitalist economic system - it involved all of the things it still does today. So is this NEWs?

erica-sama.bsky.social•91 days ago

Reminds me of South Florida and the abuse of immigrants who worked the fields including sugarcane.

london-b.bsky.social•91 days ago

Damnnnn.

socalsarcasm.bsky.social•91 days ago

Well that’s super F-ed up

readingrenee.bsky.social•91 days ago

Cc: rfk jr

matsake.bsky.social•91 days ago

Big companies like Coca-Cola, Pepsico and Unilever, of course, know this, but turn a blind eye.

isosolies.bsky.social•91 days ago

India is not a great country to be poor in.

snoopiboard.bsky.social•91 days ago

They would wish they could go work on their sugar cane farm remotely. 🙄

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talk2joepublic.bsky.social•91 days ago

99% of bosses all over the world 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

mcb.bsky.social•91 days ago

Horrific

beastwarking.bsky.social•90 days ago

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. You're either being exploited or encouraging the exploitation of others.

colterw.com•91 days ago

It’s like when you extract every dollar for profit you end up destroying lives in the process.

anilsaxena.bsky.social•91 days ago

It’s the sad exploitation of the poor. Not a new story, but one that shouldn’t be real in 2024…it’s the price humanity pays for an industry that profits off of others suffering.

wolferl-amadeus.bsky.social•91 days ago

#elonshouldpayforit

whiskeythinker.bsky.social•91 days ago

"Every billionaire that comes in, cripples us. Leaves us maimed. Silent and tamed. Upon the flesh and bones, they build their homes"

premiumsteve.bsky.social•91 days ago

As if we needed more incentive to have a national conversation about cutting our sugar consumption.

raw-wheat.bsky.social•91 days ago

I drink diet soda to protest for human rights.

littlemurphydog.bsky.social•91 days ago

Sounds like time for a boycott!

momo-randy.bsky.social•91 days ago

There is no serious wealth which is not built over poor people sweat and tears. None. Every time you see a billionaire it hides the million of people which became poorer. It accounts for the workers but also the consumers.

evepiper.bsky.social•91 days ago

But people admire them instead of despise them

dggz.bsky.social•91 days ago

Absolutely. The greedy invest in such propaganda too. #GreedIsUgly hasn't caught on but I feel like one of the only ways to change things, is to make greed shameful.

momo-randy.bsky.social•91 days ago

Yes. The trade off they say is “job” but jobs existed before the billionaires, they just took the capital part and left the work part.

jjjmmm5.bsky.social•91 days ago

always the wealthy- abuse- power

jaysavvy.bsky.social•91 days ago

You're right.

We should just let them come here by the millions so they avoid their culture of violence...

...and bring their culture of violence here.

zasadi.bsky.social•91 days ago

The culture of violence funded and overlooked by US companies like Coca Cola & Pepsico? Kind of seems like it’s already “there”.
Also, why are you writing “here” like Bluesky is wherever you are?

taminaus.bsky.social•91 days ago

Although hugely watered down in its current form, the EU’s CSDDD is intended to address supply chain issues and protect workers rights, identify violations etc. Needs to have proper enforcement and teeth to build accountability- and needs ratifying beyond the EU!