My Norwegian friends dad was a merchant marine, he has since passed away, but I remember all the talk about ships when we were kids, he was very proud of that. I agree absolutely with holding accountable the people up the rung of the ladder, but they have loopholes, in one such case when children in China, working 14 hour days, were making Christmas ornaments for Wal-Mart and Target, they just passed it off as "it's not our fault what our contractor does to get the job done." Getting cheaper than that is slavery, with our population growth, and the lax labor laws around the world, it is becoming very prevalent, and yes aside from what their history teaches, right here in the US. We have a lot of workers here who fly "under the radar", so to say, and are beholden to their employers for their passage to our country, that and a lot of whom are constantly threatened by their employers with a phone call to the immigration authorities, all are underpaid, most are forced to get wages way below legal standards, forced overtime, etc. It's a sad state of affairs, millions of people working here with no voice at all. It all goes back to the greed factor.

I would love to see more members of the science and academia tackle our future problems of mass starvation.