Week 6: Illicit? What Do You Think?

I think we are living in a huge world of counterfeit, illegalities, fakes, corruption and disgustingly no regard for human life. The video I just watched from National Geographic Movie production titled “Illicit: The Dark Trade” is astonishingly surprising with full videotaped evidence these illegalities. In countries like China, where most of the goods sold around the world are produced, there is mass production and resale of these counterfeit goods on a large scale out in the fashion districts in the slums. These illegal productions and sales are fueled by millions of dollars from tourist all over the world from countries like United State, Europe, and continents like Africa. The tourist even has a choice of picking their dream item from a catalogue that was published by the counterfeiters. The pharmaceutical traffickers are taking advantage of the medical business due to the high demand of drugs like Viagra and are mass producing for online companies that don’t even require prescriptions to sale these products to their online customers. There a millions of these multimillion dollar companies on the web that utilize the border of many countries across the world to traffic drugs. These fake drugs, of which some are poisonous, may end up being mixed in with the real effective drugs at international boarders and could be consumed at your neighborhood pharmacy. With the rise of criminal networks across the globe and large dollars amounts of illegal money floating across continents, guns are and raw materials for terrorist acts are on the rise as well. To my surprise, slavery still exists internationally. Human traffickers are being hired being mafia organizations to shipped workers across borders for cheap labor and the solicitation of their counterfeits. Many of these slaves have no choice but to hustle for a plate of food on the table and wiring monies to their families abroad. In conclusion, we are consumers should be ashamed and should play our part to stop these acts. I personally would be afraid of consuming Tylenol from my neighborhood pharmacy.