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up fining these companies amounts of $480 for each fatality. IBP employees in Texas,
after losing a limb at work, are pressured by their supervisors to sign release forms
that will protect the company from future lawsuits. If both hands are lost, then they
need to sign with their mouths.
It is reported in the book Liquid Candy that Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, and Seven-Up encourage
feeding soft drinks to babies by licensing their logos to a major maker of baby bottles,
Munchkin Bottling, Inc. The numbers say one-fifth of American 1-2 year olds drink soda.
It is a medical fact that soda is unhealthy and can lead to calcium deficiencies that can
cause bone fractures, yet empty calories continue being sold to children at a moment when
a healthy diet is crucial. These publicity campaigns aimed at children in hopes of a
lifetime of consumption are called "craddle to grave" campaigns.
McDonalds is responsible for 90% of the country's new jobs, and it is been known, along with
other fast food chains, to advocate publicly against minimum wage increases. They target to
employ teenagers and immigrants who have no other option but to become slaves to the company.
When a group of employees attempt to grow roots and join a union for protection, McDonalds
reacts in a totalitarian way, and often closes the franchise, to then open another one next
door without hiring the "trouble-maker" employees.
Sweatshops are a common way for companies to make their profits. Most of the clothes people
wear are created in Third World Countries by cheap labor. A Global Exchange investigation
found that Gap, Inc. in Mexico paid employees as little as 28 cents an hour for working at a
jeans lineup, while selling those same jeans for $100 at stores. What seems more unnatural is
the daily production quotas factory workers need to complete being so high; they don't even
have bathroom breaks through the whole day.
