March 29, 2008
The High Cost of Low Price Chapters 6 and 7
This week is a further continuation of the movie, the High Cost of Low Price. Once again it is within two different youtube videos so you will have to play both of them. The first video is about the millions of dollars of subsidies given to the Wal-Mart corporation by each city that it occupies. These subsidies would have provided money for law enforcement, education and the bettering of the community but instead was given to Wal-Mart. Now many communities face shortages for basic needs when the subsidies could have been used for a better purpose. More importantly, chapter 7 focuses on the environmental injustice that Wal-Mart has done to communities around the nation. Things such as improper storage of pesticides in the Wal-Mart parking lots. During times of rain, pesticides would run into the drinking water of many towns. There is also a huge lack of corporate regard for the environmental damage that it is responsible for.
