The foods that we eat are intimately connected to human trafficking and slavery mainly because the people who harvest the fruits and vegetables we eat are often people who have been kidnapped to work as slaves. This practice is tolerated mainly because labor laws are outdated and go all the way back to the time of the Great Depression (Source 1). These labor laws are rarely ever enforced harshly. The tomato growing industries in South Florida is one of the largest benefactors that use enslaved workers to harvest their crop. Benefactors that use house slaves have them in deplorable conditions and beat them if they are too sick or weak to work. There are many murder cases involving enslaved farm worker in South Florida. These people, who are
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I was surprised to learn that sex trafficking is a big problem in Charlotte, North Carolina. North Carolina is the base for one of the largest industries of human trafficking. I’ve read one or two articles on the investigation and the release of victims of human trafficking. I even wrote a short essay on human trafficking in India while I was in middle school. I knew that human trafficking has always been a problem affecting the United States but what really surprised me was the fact that it was so close to home.
Janet, like many others, was lured by her boyfriend into becoming a prostitute. Her boyfriend started a relationship with her with the intention to be her pimp and threatened her to stay with violence against her children (Source 4). Many women like Janet are forced into prostitution by men promising love, work, or a better life. Some women believe them and when they follow these men, they betray them. Many of the men who lure these women are their boyfriends or sometimes even husbands (Source 3). I think that it is easy to ignore their existence because we don’t want to see them. It’s hard to come to terms with the fact that such vile practices are being done and I think that we would rather turn a blind eye than face
I was surprised to learn that sex trafficking is a big problem in Charlotte, North Carolina. North Carolina is the base for one of the largest industries of human trafficking. I’ve read one or two articles on the investigation and the release of victims of human trafficking. I even wrote a short essay on human trafficking in India while I was in middle school. I knew that human trafficking has always been a problem affecting the United States but what really surprised me was the fact that it was so close to home.
Janet, like many others, was lured by her boyfriend into becoming a prostitute. Her boyfriend started a relationship with her with the intention to be her pimp and threatened her to stay with violence against her children (Source 4). Many women like Janet are forced into prostitution by men promising love, work, or a better life. Some women believe them and when they follow these men, they betray them. Many of the men who lure these women are their boyfriends or sometimes even husbands (Source 3). I think that it is easy to ignore their existence because we don’t want to see them. It’s hard to come to terms with the fact that such vile practices are being done and I think that we would rather turn a blind eye than face