Comments on: Boycott Adidas, Save Kangaroos. Bill SB880

By: admin

admin — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:52:21 +0000

Dear Miranda,
Yes, unfortunately, so many of the products that Americans consider luxury, or even basics, are the result of sweatshop labor in third world countries. The results are two-fold…this harms our own country’s economy. Once upon a time, manufacturing created countless jobs for our people, but corporations have outsourced so much of this now because they can pay sweatshop laborers mere pennies instead of goodly wages that bring dignity to work. It’s good to buy Made in the USA products whenever you can. The other harm is, of course, to the poor children and adults who labor in these dangerous, cruel places.

And then there are the animals…if our compassion can stretch not only to our neighboring humans in other countries, but also to all life, buying animal-tested products becomes abhorrent.

I’m so glad you took the time to write and I will keep posting advisory articles here as time permits. Knowing there are folks like you out there who will make good, compassionate choices once they have the information at hand means that getting this information out there is so important!

By: miranda

miranda — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:35:55 +0000

For years I have been against buying branded item like Adidas, Nike, Reebok. Though they are tempting. The reasons are simply easy..I once read an article that all these products were made in a sweatshop e.g vietnam, indonesia, China etc…by buying these products only makes the company man richer and those poor labourers poorer..
I would like to thank you for bringing arm & hammer products to my attention as many others don’t know it’s history. Maybe you can shed more info on cosmetics and other regularly used household item to our attention.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:23:26 +0000

Dear Ian,
Thank you so much for commenting on this. I agree with you completely about the boycott. This is just a shameful situation. It can be so hard to get the public to think beyond the finished product on the shelf when they desire something.

This is our attempt to ask for more conscientiousness from consumers. We wrote to many of the above places and received no reply to any of our emails. I applaud you in your own, individual efforts.

By: Ian H. Boyd

Ian H. Boyd — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:07:20 +0000

Woops, thought this was getting forwarded to a diff place har.
I’ll pass it _that_ way!

By: Ian H. Boyd

Ian H. Boyd — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:05:58 +0000

A full & complete boycott of all companies that benefit from the atrocities needs to be put in place NOW.
I am fully supporting a new bill to be presented stating as such.
Whether or not this is supported or adhered to is up to our state’s “population’s requests minded” representitives & their own integrity in regards to accepting bribes/persuasion.

I will do my own part & activate economically & socially.
Thank you for the opportunity to voice my need.
In Gratitude -
Ian Boyd