The Tobacco Industry's Exploitation Of African Children
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Children Of Tobacco (2013): Eighty thousand Malawian children are enslaved by a worldwide addiction. Despite serious health risks and missing out on an education, the exploitation continues without effective government or industry action.
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"Without the kids the tobacco would rot", says Josepha, whose son Shepherd works on her tobacco field. Enticed by promises of high incomes and fertiliser loans, peasants are being encouraged to switch from corn to tobacco. In an ironic twist, the little money made from growing tobacco is being spent on corn. Handling tobacco with bare hands equals to absorbing nicotine from fifty cigarettes a day. "People have no idea of what is going on", says doctor Chimbetete, warning of the risks of green tobacco disease. With tobacco representing 60% of Malawi's exports the authorities are turning a blind eye to the situation, and corporate responsibilities programmes are proving a sham. As one commentator states: "They finance these programs to clear their conscience".
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I am 43 years old and I grew up in the mountains of East Tennessee. Until I was around 14 years old my family grew around 15 acres of tobacco every year. It was hard work for sure and the money wasn’t much but it helped us survive. The tobacco was more like a second job as my grandparents and uncles worked full time jobs. I can relate to the folks as many people in the south East United States can.
Holy shit there was a dude speaking perfect English that was given subtitles.
Captions for the hearing impaired.
and they were wrong.
I saw a different documentary where they dubbed over a guy speaking decent English
they just put them onto everything thats not narration it's standard
Thats their way of patronising them i think
I live in Kentucky USA. I used to work in tobacco as a kid until my family stopped growing it.
I was told the tobacco I smoke was not from child labour, and yet there is the buyer from British American tobacco, who sell the tobacco to imperial tobacco Canada. The tobacco company lying, what a surprise.
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There's clearly no need for subtitles for the majority of the english-speakers in this video, but if you're going to add them anyway, at least add the same level of detail to that spoken.
Jim Proffitt the simplication can benefit non native speakers and the hearing impaired, even native speakers who are unfamiliar with the dialect.
There clearly is a need for subtitles. Did you forget that the deaf and hearing impaired cant.. hear?
Source - a deaf guy
@@illimited2 then they could've simply enabled closed caption? It's there for a reason
11:28 Why don't the subtitles read what he's saying. It's easy to understand him without them, and his English is very good.
RUclips generated subtitles suck
8:24 the two year old who is playing with a sharp prodding tool and ripped pieces of tobacco is heartbreaking.
”Life should be smooth on both sides” 100% this.
It's not exploitation it's survival....for these kids it's like go to work and earn money for food or die.
@Steven Brown but its not
I say it's exploitation no matter what their skin color is, big tobacco making billions and can't even pay these people a liveable wage.
Like how I was "exploited" shoveling snow or mowing or raking leaves, painting fences and whatever other labor i could do at a 8 yr old hahaha
@@triscuitrotsef1799 yea this isn’t what you’re getting out of gas stations, this also isn’t “big Tobacco”. This is Africans using even poorer Africans for labor, and then selling the collected crop to small, cheap tobacco rollers. No one is making millions off the piss crop they grow
I'm in Massachusetts. Many kids used to work on tobacco farms during school vacations.
Really where in the state?
How can the government treat their people like this. Poor kids being treated like slaves
tropheusnz that's what governments do, new world order under isreal, humans let other humans control what they do
That is the African way...
@@ilsehauger8574 It shows that their men have no pride in themselves and it shows that they are undeveloped men to do their own like that.
this is one of the many reasons i don't smoke
if they are growing tobacco to buy food, why not just grow food?
It would appear it’s a vicious circle. They were encouraged to grow tobacco and funded, they never earn enough to repay the loan. They need money to repay the debt and money to buy seed etc to change back to food crops. Slavery hidden in plain sight!
I John DD ,Fredrick speak on the pretens of smoking and commuting murder which has effect on my brain sissure here in Nigeria,since1990 before taken it have been affected seriously .I here by made this speech to all persons hearing me today I the author in this esterblishment hereby put a stop to all production now in Africa and Europe at large I want to put a stop to all dis madness .thank you
I know it’s not the point but I’m having a hard time with the English subtitles of the people who are speaking English not matching what they’re saying. In some places, there are parts where the two do not have the same meaning and to my simple mind appears to be done on purpose to increase the dramatization of the story.
If they stopped their tobacco production and converted to industrial hemp they could avoid having to use chemicals and they could get more than one product to produce and through hemp seeds they would get some nutrients they need.
There is so much hemp on the market that farmers can't get it processed, as the Kentucky farmers who turned their farms over to hemp are discovering.
When slavery isn't permitted in your own country, go to the source and save yourself the expense of importing them.
*Let's hope the people in the video* see this documentary on their smart phones.
It would change their perspective on reality.
Lol they don't know what smart phones are
Lol
19:42 "any time any place any buddy." that sums it all up.
Corrupt from top to bottom.
no one prevents the african children from joining wars against each other, or simply destroy the environment by founding a family farm. they chose themselves to earn usd or euros or chinese yuan, in order to life better.
Thanks a lot for making this documentary , coz we have a big problem at hand here . British American Tobacco (B.A.T) does the same here in Zimbabwe and i believe its even worse and at a larger scale here than Malawi coz we produce mo than Malawi. They also fooled many people in the rural areas here in Zimbabwe to drop growing their profitable maize n beans just so that they can start growing this non paying Tobacco all under promises of development .only to use em for nothing, very vad
Where are the Aid organizations that collect huge sums of money for different ventures in these struggling countries? Surely for the small amount of money involved, they could assist families to plant food crops, not to make a profit but at least to feed their families and allow the children to go to school. Tobacco should be banned, the world is in chaos, hurry back Yeshua.
In Canada a pack of smokes goes for 12 bucks.. Big tabaco is killing it
its our gov that taxes them so high not big tobacco who does not benefit if less ppl are buying due to high costs
@@ARCSTREAMS tax 90% in Australia
@@coopsnz1 its crazy ,in canada they also tax tobacco and alcohol and gas very high too
6:34 They only earn $200 a year?
I am one of those disgusting people who smoke. I think about quitting everyday, but obviously I'm weak willed and i am wholly addicted. I've looked into the tobacco I smoke, and it says they do not use child labour, but the tobacco industry isn't really known for its honest. I probably spend $200 a month of cigarettes. How much profit are these fat cats making?
A pack of cigarettes in Canada cost between $15-$22 and the farmers make only $200 a year in profit. In the past 3 years I've seen tobacco prices jump from $11-$16, with no explanation of why. The countries tax the tobacco company, and then the tobacco companies hike up the price to make up for the taxes.
The moral of the story is don't smoke, because you're killing yourself and poor families, while making the tobacco companies ridiculously rich.
plant potatoes instead.
I quit smoking in 2012 February 22nd>> Never knew that the ones who grew tobacco never knew their more exposed to its side-effects than a smoker>> Coz if they knew they wouldn't be cultivating that poison>>
lol, I almost forgot how tobacco and tea was cultivated.
The land looks so healthy no need for fertilizer from British
I don’t understand why farmers would keep on growing Tobacco when everyone can make three times as much money growing tea.. Didn’t understand the logic behind that
Manpreet Dhatt i think they didnt know anything whats going on with the world economic. Maybe no internet for researching?
Tea can not be produced in the rest of the country, it favors certain climates, that is why it is selectively produced in a few parts of the country. Which is contrary to tobacco, where it is favorable for the most parts of the country...
The government taxes tobacco to hell in Australia & Europe
No unity among nations to banned cigarettes for sale made from kids labor, unless international world organizations intervened,this poor African people will be poor and suffer.
Do you really need that marlboro?!!?
I have never heard of green tobacco disease. We never wore gloves. I dont remember ever getting sick.
From what I read it only occurs when the leaves are wet.
Thank god they are fed on work sight. Very kind.
And thats why i smoke
North America and western Europe is a failing market for tobacco. The focus of the tobacco market is the unregulated, overpopulated third world. The tobacco industry doesn't respect their lives any more than they respected ours here in North America. It doesn't matter to them who the smokers are, as long as tobacco is being sold and consumed. The majority of world smokers live in the third world. This is the last bastion of the tobacco industry.
You'd think the Tobacco company could pay off their loans.
Everyone is a liar.
its for profit not paying off loans.
Drugs are evil.
Phillip Morris (PM) make bigger margins when they get tobacco like this!
Who has PM in their stock portfolio??
In Australia and New Zealand we are paying $48.00 for a pack of 30's
But your paying that on taxes - and NONE of it goes to those people...
@@domeplsffs yes government crooks globally
Malawi exports some pretty top quality hash. Theres got to be a good market for that crop these days. In some places it is legal you know. Some people will pay good money for good hash.
Wow $200 a year and and we complain about about low wages
I really hate the way Journeyman TV paraphrases the subtitles for people who you can clearly speak English. It’s quite literally trying to portray the person as saying something they did not say!
And they don't subtitle accurately. The guy said 'farmer' and they subtitled it as 'peasant'. Why did they do that?
Get rid of tobacco completely!
Raise tea and yams instead! ~( 'w')/
Get rid of people like you completely! Dumbass, we pay tons of cash for these tobacco goods, if they ban them your government is going to look for a compensation for all the billions they're losing thus raise tax on other goods. What an idiot you are.
PadMAD3k then lets use the money for creating jobs for these people like actual morden jobs
it's not their land to do what they want with
@@Automedon2 I guess me being raised in a country where I can own my own land, I would not be one to put up with people telling me what I can and can not raise. ~( ,m,)~
Its heart breaking
They should grow weed kush
Why are they hungry? Grow food an cattle so you can eat an save your money
They don't own land, they lease it and don't get to decide what to grow on it
Not everybody can have a nice live in California. As sad as it is, these kids and their families are dependent on these jobs, and without this work they would have to resort to crime and prostitution. So yes, it sucks, but better that there are opportunities then not.
Eh
"My name is Kingsiez Kamwaka." @17:41
These types of videos make me piss. Always comparing other countries with our own.
Not even Modernized slavery.
I live in Canada and I had to work from the age of 6 on. I don't blame my parents. We need to survive and if that meant me working, than so be it. I do wish I got a better education. I feel for these kids, especially considering their health is always at risk. We can choose not to support these companies, but as long as greedy corporation only care about revenue, or unless we string the corporate fat cats up this world is not going to get better
Someone has to do the dirty work and if they really didn't want to work they can always leave lol do something else.
I'm calling bull shit no one is tewestin now bodys arms to grow tabcco y'alls just mad this one of the crops that was supported slavery
Let's go child labor
So is electronics, teas, coffee, etc. The problem is the system itself. Until we can find a practical replacement for the current capitalistic and hierarchical system, there is no hope for fundamental change to happen. BTW, many have tried Communism, and I don't think it works.
It is not the system, but the ignorant people that perpetuate that system that is the problem (especially we, the Western consumers who continue to consume, knowing that these products have been produced through inhumane means, all whilst sitting from the comfort of our homes commenting on devices that very probably contain materials made via human exploitation). WE have the power to bring the system to it's knees if we so choose. Instead, we prefer to take the easy way out, to maintain the disproportionate level of comfort we enjoy...
This is so sad Alexa play despacito
Nice one :), should be covered in pew news
If you were doing a lot better than the tobacco worker then tobacco workers would move to your farming job. This video has several bias holes in it, first its holding underdeveloped nations to developed nation standards. But, the developed nations went through the same processes to become developed. Also, for these nations to do better, another nation must absorb the offsetting cost. In America tobacco is taxed heavily, making it considerably expensive region state to state...yet that money gets lost in the system.
18:20 did this little bastard narc on his dad?
Tisk tisk
Jokes.
Id nick a car a get to uk fast
These kids have jobs don’t screw it up for them. It isn’t like they can sack groceries at food lion
The tobacco farms in America aren’t done like this. Glad I never smoked any African tobacco
If only it wer herb well money is money I suppose at least they have some nature left if they got ther flying car factories going aka drone-car but the advancing of a still virgin culture could be the taming and contamination of a wild and natural place but the money would be there and the cost would be workable for us and the environment might be able to swing it for a while hopefully while we come up with something ecological...
*American sees foreigners working hard*
American: AWw mUh GAwD dATs SLavErY!!!!!!!!!!
How u not make money off tobacco? You’re doing it wrong lol
my uncle has always told me that tobacco give good thoughts.
I don't know if there are any good uses for tobacco, but if not, why not just ban its production?
feudalism is alive and well
Stink foot kwanzerr
there making a living at least
Enslaved by Africans *
Sorry just noticed you trying to blame it on everyone else x
the kids have fun in the leave fields
Why is it always the West being blamed? Seen China, Indonesia, (everywhere in Asia) etc? That's where cigarettes are being smoke these days. Besides, this is offering $ - something sub-Subharan Africa needs anyway it can get it.
For one reason; the west owns these plantations and leases it to small farmers, then they pay just enough to cover the lease, so in effect the people are working for free (which 200 a year really is)
@@Automedon2 people smoke all over the whole world not just in the west or the east
@@zironemegeaz A++ reading comprehension
@@piawei3375 thanks
blame the parents they force there kids to work
They love it, don't worry about it hehe