It beats the hell out of starvation. I pulled weeds out of soy bean fields when I was 12. The extra money was great.

You are utterly clueless.  I’ll bet you weren’t forced to work in those fields from sun-up to sun down in sweltering heat without breaks, were you?  They sometimes work seven days a week and make barely enough to eat.  Yea, that extra money’s great…..moron!

“Moderate” I severely doubt that. Only a right-winger would compare forced child labor to part-time money they earned at 12.

They are forced into labor in these countries because they will starve if they don’t work. It is the same as in this country in the 17 and 1800′s. Our children worked the farms, harvested, hell, newspapers were using kids to sell there papers up until the 20′s and 30′s. The people who live in these desperate countries have no economic opportunities like developed nations. Their children are forced due to limited options.

I am not saying I agree with it, or that the kids should be doing this. But for bleeding hearts to show fake outrage when they read stories like this is ridiculous. The kids that work in the fields would be child prostitutes if the choice of picking cotton was unavailable, or worse yet, starve to death. They live in countries with corrupt governments with no economic freedoms. Until that changes, we will always see places that force children into hard labor.

Who said anything about these 12 year olds being forced to pick cotton any more than my parents forced me to do so long before I was 12.  I hated the job but that did not matter.

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Just because that’s the way things are in such a large part of the world, doesn’t mean that that’s the way it should be.  Every child has the right to safety, health care and education, as far as I’m concerned.  Yes, that is not the way things are in far too many places, as I have witnessed first hand.
One thing to consider here is that the profits of the child’s labor do not benefit the child, or even the child’s family.  Often, the child has been sold into this work because the family cannot afford to care for him or her (and it’s not like there’s a Planned Parenthood Burkina Faso Chapter to help with this).  Parents believe that the only option is to sell the child into some kind of work (whether it’s picking cotton or prostitution).  This is not child labor.  It’s human trafficking.
Another factor is civil war, where the children who do survive are forced to work in the industry which funds the opposing side.  In this case, very young children become child soldiers, prostitutes (again) or workers in the drug fields.”The extra money,” as you put it, Moderate, never makes it into the
hands of those performing the work.  These children are performing work that is
both arduous and dangerous, without compensation, health care or an
education.  They are treated very poorly, because they are expendable
and working in a place where there is an unlimited labor pool.

Many of us performed work of one kind or another when we were growing
up.  That’s not what is happening here, and we should not conflate the
two situations.

Its one thing to help your family on your own farm when you are a kid.  Its another thing when you are FORCED TO WORK for MONEY to help feed your family when you are a child.
VICTORIA’S SECRET IS ONE Company that could stay in this Country and use Women to manufacture their goods, and still be profitable.  How much profit is enough profit for a Company.  GREED is the one SIN that no religion or set of moral values is exempt from!

Bravo worth repeating”Howard Hill Jr.
Its one thing to help your family on your own farm when you are a kid. 
Its another thing when you are FORCED TO WORK for MONEY to help feed
your family when you are a child.
VICTORIA’S SECRET IS ONE Company
that could stay in this Country and use Women to manufacture their
goods, and still be profitable.  How much profit is enough profit for a
Company.  GREED is the one SIN that no religion or set of moral values
is exempt from!

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So lets stop buying cotton.  Now those who did have a way to live dont.  I was picking cotton by the time I was 12 and altho it was a tuff job, I did enjoy the money I made.   I even made enough to buy my first 22 rifle.  and with that could kill enough wild rabbits to eat that fed my family during many hard years.  You city people think in only your terms of understanding, AND YOU DONT.  By your stupid thinking you are guilty as much as those bad guys in other lands who pollute the air, simply because you breathe air.  Get over it and do something worth while.

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