Monday, February 6, 2012

Made in Shenjin.

 Well, I don't know how to react to this. I am a proud apple owner, Im currently finishing the pod cast and typing this response on my Mac book Pro... I'm on my seventh Iphone and also own an Ipad, I'm not going to say that I'm going to stop using apple but I will say that I am shocked. I found it very weird that the Siri program Wasn't "allowed" to answer where it was made. Mr. Daisy sheds the light on the truth behind apple, He seems to make it sound a little better then it actually is by cracking a joke every now and then but the truth behind foxcon is very dark, Mr. Daisy made a trip to Shenjin to the foxcon factory, Met some workers and came to find out that they were younger, by younger 13 years old. He also said that they were using a product to clean the glass that evaporated faster than alcohol but was extremely harmful to the people handling it, it was said that is dissolves joints and ruins workers hands for good. I don't think that apple should be singled out for this though, it made me wonder what other major companies are having their products made from a sweat shop somewhere in china by young children and overworked workers.  The story of Mr. Daisy's experience is a shocking one for sure though, people being beat for taking picture outside of foxcon, workers literally being worked to death and sacrificing health for the products we consume here in America. Daisy shares his experience with the man he had met that was let go from foxcon that would make the metal backplates on the i pads, Daisy showed this man the finished I pad and the man was in aw, this was the first time he had ever seen a finished i pad, they weren't even in Shenjing, The product he was loosing his hand over he had never encountered until this day. Another thing that shocked me was that when these workers would go to the union board with problems they would be put on a black list and that list was given to companies to show not to rehire these people. I don't think there is any way to stop this, awful labor laws will always be around but i do think that they can be fixed and having children of our future risk their lives to produce products to entertain us Americans. It honestly makes me feel bad that these people go through this and are not in school because they are forced to work for almost nothing for the selfishness of companies.

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