If you shopped at a store with dirt cheap prices, would you care that the labor used to make the products was virtually slave labor?
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bowlinggreen
ANSWERS: 9
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No i must admit. I wear a lot of Nike clothing and apparantly slave labor or the equivalent of is used in making them.
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I do care that the type of store I shop in forces companies in China to treat their workers like slaves in order to get the cheapest product in order to make sales. I wish I could afford the type of clothing that was ethically made, but I am not in a position to do so.
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I just read an article about Forever 21 using "slave labor". It's unfortunate...but it happens so much more than you think. A lot of times, I'm not sure the individual stores know what goes on - you're taking away from hometown business and ruining lives that way rather than attacking the company in general...write letters, campaign, but don't ruin the lives of your fellow citizens without doing background work.
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Apparently I do not. I shop at Walmart.
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I think if you want to start thinking about all that, you never will come to an end. May be many things are produced by so called slave-labour but I also think that women and girls in western countries have a clear right to get cheap and affordable fashion. If there was noso called slave-labour, many things would be much motre expensive and not affordable.
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If I knew for a fact that was the case, I would care. But I would not worry myself over it otherwise :)
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I wear clothing from all over the world because I shop at Salavation Army and other similar stores. I love being able to piece together a totally original outfit for next to nothing! I agree that slave labor is wrong, but instead of going after the consumers, go after the ones who enslave the laborers! Make them pay for what they do to others. They could raise the pay rates, lessen the length of the work day and other things.....and STILL make an excellent profit. It isn't the consumers who don't care - it's the manufacturers.
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Tracing any globally-marketed product, you can virtually guarantee that there was some form of massive exploitation, often that would go against the ethics of most consumers of the product, that occurs in order for that product to be made available as it is. Whether it's getting the raw materials, creating parts, manufacturing products, shipping, etc. - you will find a group of people somewhere in "The Hive" that will be getting screwed over big-time. It's important to think about and even combat if you can, but the idea of having an ethically-clean life, with everything you constantly support through consumption, is completely unachievable for the majority of the planet. It sucks, but it is what it is.
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Yes. If possible I buy fair trade products.
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