I start feeling pretty good about myself: buying food at the farmers’ market, using organic cleaners, trying to avoid Wal-Mart, etc but then something will remind me that for toys and clothes my choice (other than second-hand which I do primarily) is stuff made in China in bad working conditions. And it’s sad that stores in this country started using sweatshops without people’s voices being heard. Yes, people love to not spend money (in other words get a great deal) but I’d say that well over 50% would rather pay more and not have child laborers. Of course, the corporations probably know that but also know they will make a lot more using them.
I imagine that all the stores in this town (Cato’s, Maurices, JCPenney, KMart, Goodys) have mostly products made in China and little to no products made fairly.
Do you suppose if we wrote our congressmen/women and asked for laws to be passed where corporations couldn’t use sweatshops for adults or children even overseas that we could bring about change? The funny thing is there probably is some law like that . .
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