On Sun Apr 27 19:35:44 2025 Shadow wrote:

On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:16:07 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 4/27/2025 2:39 PM, Shadow wrote:

On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 14:06:50 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

Goes both ways.

Brasil is a highly efficient producer of sugar, which is
virtually impossible to import in to USA. For the past 120
years across every administration.

Brazil uses slave labour. Hard to compete with that
price-wise. The sugar cane industry has become an oligopoly. The "big
corps" rent land from farmers, sometimes refuse to pay what they
promised and when they give the land back nothing will grow on it.
Sugar cane depletes the land, rather like soy. In three years it's
sand.

There's a reason why the Chinese government will not allow
planting soy in most of China..... they plan thinking decades in the
future.

I heard that Australia's fully-automated sugar-cane farms are
far more efficient than Brazil's labour-heavy methods. Machines don't
have to feed their children or invest in bettering their education.
They're cheaper than slaves....
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WTF? And neither Dilma nor Lula nor anyone else interfered
with or even addressed slavery as a domestic political issue??

Presidents cannot make laws, if either Lula or Dilma tried to
they would be impeached in a heartbeat.. Slavery is illegal here. But
the justice system still from the far right 1964 US-Brazilian Military
coup era. Handed down father to son. It's extremely rare for someone "outside" to become a judge.
I don't think a slave master has ever been convicted to jail.
Fines or bribes, yes, happens all the time.

<https://www.cnj.jus.br/programas-e-acoes/trabalho-escravo-e-trafico-de-pessoas/trabalho-escravo/>

(the law and the fact that nothing is being done. That page is
an official one from our "justice" department)

15% of all our coffee is harvested by slaves. They haven't
invented machines that can do that automatically. Nestle, JAB and
Starbucks, the 3 biggest "players" just turn a blind eye.
Friboi (JBS S.A.)was recently fined for handcuffing workers in
the meat industry so they wouldn't run away. They charge more for food
than they pay in salaries, so the worker can never resign, not until
he pays his "debts". Justice pardoned them when they said that the
workers were "outsourced" and they had no idea it was happening. LOL.

And of course, there are no unions in the agricultural area,
so there is no-one to defend the slaves.

The mechanical industry has it much better. Low salaries, but
the unions insure the workers get pensions, medical care, sick pay,
accident insurance and holidays.
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You seem to be using "right" and "left" opposite than we do here. Abraham Lincoln caused the civil war to END slavery and he was a Republican. The left, "Democrats" were the slaveholders

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