Europe’s Dirty Little Secret: Moroccan Slaves and a ’Sea of Plastic’
▻http://ecowatch.com/2015/12/18/europes-dirty-secret-almeria-spain
As we drove along, the smell of plastic and chemicals permeated the car and offered the first scent of the larger environmental problem. The greenhouses are almost all hydroponic—growing vegetables in water, air and a chemical stew of fertilizer, #herbicide and #pesticide. Due to the hot and extremely difficult working conditions inside the greenhouses, almost all of the human labor is imported, much of it slave-like from Africa.
