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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
Not very nice, but very very accurate. And that's not the producer's fault.
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So, the situation is not the producers fault.
But if the consumer boycotts this producer they are at fault for not giving their money to third world factory workers.
It would seem that you have a very defeatist attitude. Or at least working very hard on the rationalization so that you don't feel guilty.
I am of the opinion that we no longer vote for our leaders in the polling booth because the politicians are too busy playing little games and getting their palms greased by special interests. If you want to have any kind of impact it would have to consumer impact. Consumers would have to stop buying tuna fish because of dolphins being caught in the net for Clover Leaf to make changes to the way the tuna are being caught.
I don't buy Canadian because it's local or want to preserve Canadian jobs - it's because I wish to buy products made by workers in a country that has decent labour laws and a minimum wage. I have purchased items from places like "nosweatapparel.com" where items made by unionized workers from the developing world are sold, but with retail tags only saying "made in China" or "made in Thailand" how is one to know whether the workers are making a living wage. I really wish there was a better labelling system.... but without one, I'm going to stick with purchasing Canadian goods and avoiding products made in third world countries.