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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
To be honest Eric, there are some people that do not have the luxury of being able to buy/choose ethically produced goods.......their budgets mean that they have to go for the economic option - the one they can afford. It is either that or do without. That's the reality.
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By saying "that's the reality" I hope you don't mean, as Thatcher would have said: "There is no alternative." There's always an alternative. And that is doing what you can. Informing yourself about issues that many in power, both in the economic sector and in government, wish would stay hidden is a start. It's ok to express outrage at the killing of 100s of children in Syria, but what about the millions of kids in Asia who are sold into slave labour in the factories, sweat shops, and brothels? Seems like lots of folks, particularly in Europe care more about the fate of baby seals than they do about children slaving away in unsafe conditions in Asian factories. And the kids in Thailand working in the sex tourism industry.
And an aside: You and I grew up in a time when doing without was normal. Didn't kill us, did it? Maybe made us stronger in the long run.
