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Archer, Dan – What A Whopper

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What a Whopper

A comic with a message!  Sorry, even with all the chaos in the world I rarely see something cross my desk that’s this socially conscious, with all sorts of links to boot.  This is the story of migrant workers in general and a group of workers in Florida from last year specifically.  Did you know that a fair amount of migrant workers are essentially legalized slaves?  Sure looks like it’s true.  And don’t start with any crap about how they choose to come here and the free market has to regulate itself.  One read through of this issue will show what a joke that is, not to mention if you happen to dig even a little bit through the links on the back page.  The connection to Burger King is simple: even after several companies finally did the right thing and accepted some regulations, Burger King wouldn’t do so, offering increasingly ridiculous reasons as to why not.  Dan says that after this was published BK did finally accept some of these conditions (like, for example, a 1 cent raise per pound of tomatoes) but it still holds up as a powerful, concise and even entertaining recap of the circumstances a good chunk of the unseen population of this country lives with every day.  Or they used to, anyway.  Things do seem to be improving, but man were they ever in the crapper to start with.  $3