Do you allow a pound of yours to be used to kill?

Question

Or do you avoid buying branches directly or indirectly related with war economies or kids exploiting?

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Answer 1

We have the right to demand where our money goes. I pay over 40% of my salary each month & where does my money go to? to arm the Jews and burn alive the Arab kids.

Answer 2

I don't buy from Pfizer (test drugs on children and African's without getting permission), GAP (sweat shops, child labour), McDonalds (help with rainforest deforestation), Coca Cola (happily syphen off water near their factories in India and leave local farmers with poluted water).

If I am to buy chocolate, tea, coffee, I would rather buy from Kenyan, indian, chinese farmers who are being paid a decent wage for what they grow. I refuse to use Nestle who regulary use and abuse the Trade Laws so that farmers actually make a loss on their produce. Also, they were a company started by the Nazi party. Hundreds of children were killed in Ethiopia when they gave powdered milk to mothers claiming it was more nutritional and then when their mothers stopped lactating told them they would have to PAY! When they are some of the poorest people in the world! Then the cheeky bastards tried to sue the Ethiopian government for throwing them out of the country. How evil can you get?

If I'm going to buy fruit etc, I'll check the label and buy them from a country that needs it, rather than Californian Oranges and texan Melons.

If I saw Israeli goods I wouldn't buy it.

Unfortunately though, even though countries like the Sudan, DRC, Congo, Nigeria and Zimbabwe (sp?) have questionable governments (well more than questionable), the people still need the money so sometimes you have to buy in the hope that they will get some of it.

I really wanted to go to Thailand when I went traveling, but am now refusing until they do something about the illegal endangered animal trade. Unlike the Kenyan government, they turn a blind eye to Elephant poaching, Monkey baiting and the trade of Tiger fur.

Answer 3

Almost every action we take leads us along this path. The sweat shops of India and Indo-China are being used by many European countries to produce clothes and other goods that are then sold on the high streets of Europe.Cheap imported labour constructs the factories of many far eastern an near eastern manufacturers of goods sold in Europe. It's hard to avoid having a child work for you in some lateral way or other. To avoid buying goods from these underpaid workers would have many families starve. The answer is to aid people from impoverished areas, but not by throwing money or food at them. I work in Isan and I try to help wherever I can, one needs to see from another perspective, set up workers co-ops, teach them to produce and sell their own goods, but there are always those waiting to cream the impoverished. I think one cannot win, but you can try your best, as I am doing. Tony in remotest Indo-China.

Answer 4

i am a reasonably ethical shopper - i have bought nothing by nestlé for years - but sometimes the choices are not so straightforward as they seem.

switching your purchases from third-world- (or eastern-europe-) sourced suppliers to home brands might seem like a good idea - but such protectionism destroys the economic infrastructure of some of the world's poorest countries while in the long-term increasing the production inefficiency even of the developed economies it seems to favour.

if european and north american grain were not so heavily subsidised africa could probably feed itself.

in this - as in so many matters - the easiest answers are not guaranteed to be the best.

Answer 5

i try very hard to support my local businesses and if i cant i try to always buy fair trade products including fruit , coffee other items of food etc.
i must admit i bought a mahogany chest of draws in a rustic style it cost me about £650.00 and later found out it was from Indonesia and probably made by children earning 15p a hour and working 18 hr days , that's what made me think about fair trade and asking shops where products have come from .
i don't think its possible to eliminate this as even our clothes from high street shops come from another country , where it is produced on the cheap , trouble is like me we are not made of money to buy more expensive u.k made clothes .
this subject could go on for ever as everything we ouch has a element of this even the switch on the kettle was probably made in some foreign country by children and adults being paid peanuts ..
it will never end . sorry I'm passionate about this one and Ive gone on a bit too much ....

Answer 6

We have got troops in Iraq and Afghanistan so it could be argued that our economy or part of it is a war economy. Our taxes go to the government which is used to pay for the troops so we can't avoid pounds being used to kill.

Answer 7

In a Capitalist society that is not an easy thing to do. Ideally yes, the effects would soon bring the greedy money orientated bastards to their knees.

Answer 8

I do my best to avaoid places where there is expoitation of workers but with so much made in The Dragon Economies now it is difficult.

Answer 9

i think slave labour for kids is an excellent idea its been going on for years, and usually these kids don't have time or are to knacked to commit crime and it keeps them of the streets so if i can have a couple for a £ I'll soon find them something to do!

Answer 10

Hi Brad here! do me a favor sweetheart leave the Brits alone and come back to bed!!