Much like the article above the misery highlighted in this article is down to American agricultural subsidies. Luxury Egyptian Cotton is produced by small land owners who use their own children to pick the cotton. Earnings and pitiful and they are getting worse as farmers face unfair competition from Americans.
It is most interesting to see how seeds of hatred against Western economies are sown in circumstances like this
Luxury cotton's true cost exposed | Environment | The Observer
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