Letters to the Editor

Global fishiness How can Wal-Mart sell Chilean salmon for $4.84 a pound? An excerpt from "The Wal-Mart Effect." By Charles Fishman [2006-01-23]

• Global fishiness...salmon is the tip of the iceberg

  I think anyone compelled to read this article is also aware of how Wal-Mart leading this country and others into an economic despair. The quest for low prices has nothing to do with serving Americans or producers, that's for sure. It's about the rape of poor countries and the exporting of jobs so that a few profit immensely.

  This is not capitalism; this is facism.

  I will take the statement of my 80 year old father as a dark reminder of who we have become as consumers:

  "Don't blame Wal-Mart. Blame the American people. Wal-Mart could not continue without our consent. We are as complicit in the undoping of our communities as Wal-Mart. Quit shopping there, for anything. Just stop."

  We are victims of our own greed.

  -- alc
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