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  The sour taste of pineapple: how an expanding export industry undermines workers and their communities

  International Labor Rights Forum, 2008

  Since the 1960’s, pineapple production has quadrupled and export has tripled worldwide. While profits for some have tremendously expanded under such development, this report demonstrates how pineapple workers, their families and communities, and the environment in the largest pineapple producing nations have not enjoyed the benefits of such growth.
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  Coca Cola: the alternative report

  War on Want, 2006

  This report compares and contrasts Coca Cola’s rhetoric of corporate social responsibility (CSR) with the reality of actual practices of the company.
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  White gold: the true cost of cotton: Uzbekistan, cotton and the crushing of a nation

  Environmental Justice Foundation, 2005

  This report details cotton production in the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan. The authors argue that this industry represents one of the most exploitative enterprises in the world, violating human rights and causing major damage to the environment.The document examines the political background in Uzbekistan and the regime’s practice of using child labour.
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  The oil for ape scandal: how palm oil is threatening orang-utan survival

  Friends of the Earth, 2005

  This report discusses the imminent threat of extinction to orang-utan in Malaysia and Indonesia bought about by the production of palm oil (a source of vegetable oil).