How are they connected? Well, the popular brewery that makes Fat Tire beer in Colorado was bought by a global conglomerate based in Japan. The Japanese company has also acquired a brewery in Myanmar, run by the military, which has a terrible human rights record. The World’s Patrick Winn has the story.
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