ACORN

[kandrathe]

So, if I understand you correctly, you feel that your moral rectitude is perfectly safe because bad things are being done somewhere else by someone else to provide the goods that you purchase. You are allowed to scrunch your eyes tightly shut and cover your ears as you hand over your money. <_<

Where is the messed up thinking? :angry: You could buy items made in America because then you would have a reasonably certain answer to all those questions. You could even bestir yourself to follow the provenance of the goods you purchase.

But you cannot claim that because somebody else somewhere else does bad things, you are absolved because it didn't happen to your neighbours.

No. I can't possibly know the morality of the supply chain for all the goods I purchase. There are laws in place, including fair trade, that are meant to discourage or stop illegal, unethical or immoral practices. I depend on the suppliers of goods, and on the governments overseeing them to insure they are following the rules.

How many products do you buy in a month, and how many of them are made in your nation? Including food, I buy many dozens of products in a month. Much of it is made here in the USA. If, however, I learn that someone like Gap, or Primark are breaking the rules, then I can choose differently. But, unless consumers happen to catch something on the news, how would they know any differently? The US has an active ban on Child Labor Product usage (maintains the list), and does the work for us stopping its importation. As far as I know, Canada and the EU do not have such a ban.