In the 3rd world children are sitting working at looms making rugs, from the crack of dawn until late night. They can be as young as five years old.
They eat at the loom, there isn't any play.
They are beaten if they stop working.
When they are ill and can hardly sit up straight, they still have to keep up the same pace. They are shown no mercy.
Since I came to learn of this practice of using such labour, I won't by a rug from a store, unless they will show me proof, that the rug wasn't made by slave labour. Many stores are now labelling rugs to this end.
Do you ask this question when buying one?
Has slave labour been used in making this rug?
2007-02-23 05:23:48 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
nicemanve,
I'm talking about five year olds working till they drop, working while they are ill. Not adults. I have campaigned long enough in the past, to know the adults need work. So i don't need to be told by you to get real!
Thank you for your answer...
2007-02-23 07:54:04 · update #1
nicemanve, actually I do buy fair trade, I can't cover everything but at least I do my best. How about you?
Cassandra
2007-02-23 07:57:26 · update #2
that's one reason why many people stopped shopping at Wal Mart, because of the accusations that their cheaper lines were made by slave labor. I don't personally ask about anything I buy, but if I found out I wouldn't buy something that was made by child labor.
2007-02-23 05:27:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Most of the goods you purchase are made by slave labor.
Face it, people making less than a dollar or a pound a day are not simply working in a society where the exchange value is lopsided; they are being exploited to make sure that there is a huge profit on the goods they make, since the retail purchasers (you and me) pay what seems like a slightly reduced price. These slave wages and often slave conditions are created by multinational corporations, and they are often enforced by 'peacekeepers' from the US or UN.
What can you do? Don't darken the door at big-box stores. Frequent secondhand stores, craigslist, freecycle, and the classified section of your newspaper to buy things that have already been used, thereby you don't contribute to the flood of new goods produced on the cheap. Use the money you save to buy locally-produced food and other goods, which may be more expensive.
2007-02-23 05:31:46 · answer #2 · answered by nora22000 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you. It is getting better though because people like you are speaking up about this Disgrace.. Some of the leading products and labels were been manufactured by slave children. When the media brought this to the consumers attention there was outrage at the fact that the leading stores were aware of this but choose to keep quiet about it because they didnt want people to know the hugh profits they were making on the blood and sweat of poor defenseless children.. Shame on them all.. I am very attentitive now on what I buy but most shops do not promote these products anymore. Remember people when you buy a kashmir Rug make sure there are no blood stains from the fingers of children on it..
2007-02-23 05:28:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you live in the USA you live in a very comfortable Country where the small or helpless are protected and cared for. But in some of these places not only are those age children used as slaves in production but also in prostitution and more. Did you know you could take a trip to places like Thailand or the Philippines just for Prostitution with young children? Maybe not the Countries of Thailand or Philippines but some of the very countries that harbor such bad feelings for the USA are some of these that practice such bad things for youngsters.
2007-02-23 05:33:40 · answer #4 · answered by Scott 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too much of a decent question for a shallow, aesthetic forum like this ..
well done cassandra... keep doing what you're doing
better something than nothing ...
Dr Bad
doesn't do rugs... loves being bald
2007-02-23 08:12:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
your thoughts are very good but if you stop buying rugs from them it means that you actually kicking them out of job and thats the problem they are facing they are poor honey they need money i'm also from third world country but we are doing lots of thing to prevent chil labour but it's not that easy we have so many NGO working on it and hopefully we'll overcome this problem but not buying from them i don't think this will help them if you really interested in helping try contacting some NGO whoever doing something and working for this cause .
2007-02-23 05:40:37 · answer #6 · answered by ImGodgifted 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
children have the sofest fingers,so it only makes sense to use them,and they probly cost a bundle,so you need to get them in a good working mode young........if you think not buying rugs is going to stop slavery.....then meat eaters will soon stop eating beef,its a sad world,and until some big changes that will never come hapeens.....it will go on for centurys to come
2007-02-23 05:30:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's not just rugs. nor is it soley isolated to 3rd world countries. Nike uses sweat shops then turns around and sells the shoes for $100 plus. It is rampant...
2007-02-23 05:27:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Get real ,most of those people you'r referring to would have died of starvation by now if it wasn't for the pittance they receive , do you have the same attitude when you'r buying coffee or cotton or anything made in the third world , i dont think so !!
2007-02-23 06:13:56 · answer #9 · answered by nicemanvery 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rugs made by slave labour are sooooooo much more comfy though. You can just feel the persecution oozing out of the fabric.
2007-02-23 05:27:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋