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The Problem With Oreos · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  maybe we could start off with, what's the problem with Oreos?
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Wednesday, March 11th.
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  Okay.
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  Oreos are delicious.
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  We can all admit that, I think, and so I understand why people want to
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  eat them and we actually don't have to stop eating them, but we can do some
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  extra work to make them more just so the problem is there's deforestation
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  and rights abuses, land grabs.
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  Tied to commodity expansion in places like Indonesia, as well
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  as other places around the world.
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  That's from the Green and Red Podcast on the Labor Radio podcast network.
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  On this date in 1811, Luddite smashed up 63, quote unquote, labor saving
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  textile machines near Nottingham England.
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  Today's labor quote is by Albert Einstein who said It has become
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  appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network.