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German campaign calls for boycott of slave labor products in Portugal
https://www.esquerda.net/artigo/campanha-alema-pede-boicote-produtos-do-trabalho-escravo-em-portugal/76033Environmental Destruction and Slave Labor - Third World at the Center of Europe: Superintensive Agriculture and its Consequences in Portugal" is the title of the document(link is external) which denounces the conditions of production on farms in regions such as Alentejo and Algarve.
The document refers to the existence of “gigantic cities with plastic greenhouses”, which consume the scarce existing water, “polluted by used pesticides”.
The products are “grown and harvested by modern slaves: illegal or semi-legal migrants from Asia, Africa or even Eastern Europe”, who live in “inhumane” conditions in “confined spaces in communal accommodation, for which they also have to pay part of their income. extremely low wages”.
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attracted by EU subsidies of up to 55% of investment costs, international companies set up in Alentejo and Algarve”. Indians, Thais, Nepalese and Pakistanis work on these farms, whether in the red fruit greenhouses on the coast, in the cultivation of avocado in the Algarve or in the new olive plantations near the Spanish border.
The campaign states that new forms of agricultural exploitation consume a lot of water, without interruption, and recalls that "the water industry in Portugal is largely privatized and only guarantees supply to large customers in the event of a bottleneck
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The campaign is associated with initiatives such as “Solidarity to the Immigrant” (SOLIM) or
#JuntosPeloSudoeste in defense of the rights of migrant workers, against the exploitation of people and resources and for the interests of traditional agricultural holdings.
In this sense, it requires a fair distribution of water; careful control of working conditions; the implementation of at least EC minimum agricultural requirements; and a better supply chain law with a mandate for oversight bodies and with clear penalties.
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