Burger King
No, we do not have a Burger King here in Guaymas; although there are some NOB fast food places such as McDonalds, Pizza Hut and Dominos Pizza. I have no idea of how they stack up to their counterparts NOB as we have never gone to any of them.
I mentioned in the post below that I had read an article this morning that bugged me. It is an article that was in The New York Times . The article talks about the hardships of migrant workers and the part that the owners of Burger King play in keeping them in poverty.
I hope that you will go and read the full article at the link above. I realise that this is just a drop in the bucket of **** that goes on in the world of big business to keep their profits high and the "little people" poor; but it bugs me anyway.
I also hope that those of you who eat at Burger King, or other businesses who have/condone these type of ugly practises, decide to go elsewhere the next time you have an urge for a burger.
Here are a couple of excerpts from the article.
"Migrant farm laborers have long been among America’s most impoverished workers. Perhaps 80 percent of the migrants in Florida are illegal immigrants and thus especially vulnerable to abuse. During the past decade, the United States Justice Department has prosecuted half a dozen cases of slavery among farm workers in Florida. Migrants have been driven into debt, forced to work for nothing and kept in chained trailers at night. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers — a farm worker alliance based in Immokalee, Fla. — has done a heroic job improving the lives of migrants in the state, investigating slavery cases and negotiating the penny-per-pound surcharge with fast food chains." .........
"Telling Burger King to pay an extra penny for tomatoes and provide a decent wage to migrant workers would hardly bankrupt the company. Indeed, it would cost Burger King only $250,000 a year. At Goldman Sachs, that sort of money shouldn’t be too hard to find. In 2006, the bonuses of the top 12 Goldman Sachs executives exceeded $200 million — more than twice as much money as all of the roughly 10,000 tomato pickers in southern Florida earned that year."....
Ok, rant over; back to looking out the window at the rain.
