Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store

• pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It is indeed child labor though

  In Malaysia, the most recent government survey in 2018 estimated 33,600 children aged 5–17 working in the oil palm industry—60 per cent of them or nearly 20,000 in Sabah.

  unicef.org/…/progress-achieved-more-needed-end-ch…

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I stand corrected. Kinda forgotten Sabah and Sarawak existed. It’s our version of Alaska.

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    • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Damn, you guys have a lot of people in your area of Alaska

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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh no, by tropical Asian standards, that’s practically uninhabited.

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