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eco-sustainable/fair trade clothing
jhocking:
Dov Charney went to my highschool. He was probably the senior hitting on freshmen.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: fatty on 01 May 2008, 07:43 ---The biggest impacts on your ecological footprint will probably be the food you eat [especially meat] (some more stuff)
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Don't care, meat is tasty
KickThatBathProf:
I looooooooooooooooove animals
They're delicious
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 01 May 2008, 07:54 ---I'm not sure what the alternative to boycotting is. Perhaps petitioning governments to do something about terrible conditions in factories?
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Petitioning isn't too effective, particularly if you're petitioning one government to put pressure on another government to put pressure on an international company operating within its borders. Aiding good trade unions worldwide is a better tactic, unfortunately companies know this so many will do pretty much anything to prevent trade union organising from firing people that join up to and including having them killed (particularly in Columbia, where 4000 trade union leaders have been assassinated in the last 20 years). You can also consider protesting outside companies that use sweatshop labour or even taking direct action against them. No Sweat is a pretty decent organisation and has a fair amount of good information on what's going on.
With regard to the shoes the American branch makes falling apart, I think maybe my feet just hate chucks. They've annihilated all the Converse ones I've had too, and they lasted even less time than the No Sweats (the record being two days).
Patrick:
--- Quote from: KickThatBathProf on 01 May 2008, 08:26 ---I looooooooooooooooove animals
They're delicious
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