One More Reason To Try Not To Buy Products From China
No, not that it'll make some huge dent in the Chinese economy, the few people who will care enough to do this.
Also, there's so much made in China that this is rather impossible to do much of the time.
But if enough people get behind boycotting (or largely boycotting) Chinese products, maybe we can force a little change, or start to force some change.
Change? Cory Doctorow posted a screen shot of a letter in a Kmart Halloween decoration from a prisoner in a Chinese forced labor camp. Many of these prisoners are prosecuted for their religion -- their practice of Falun Gong.
More at Consumerist.
Boycotting Wal*Mart is the same as boycotting China. I'll never shop at Wal*Mart again as long as they treat their employees the way they do.
Roger at November 8, 2013 5:54 AM
I'll never shop at Wal*Mart again as long as they treat their employees the way they do.
Which explains why no one works at WalMart.
Ah, I get it. They import all their workers from a Chinese labor camp!
I R A Darth Aggie at November 8, 2013 7:10 AM
I'll never shop at Wal*Mart again as long as they treat their employees the way they do.
Which explains why no one works at WalMart.
Ah, I get it. They import all their workers from a Chinese labor camp!
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at November 8, 2013 7:10 AM
My daughter worked at Walmart, for quite a while. I thought she was treated very fairly.
The amount of Chinese made goods, they carry, is another question. You know how to avoid buying stuff from China? Mostly it is don't buy crap, All those little decorator items are just dust collectors.
After that, read the labels.
Isab at November 8, 2013 3:11 PM
"I'll never shop at Wal*Mart again as long as they treat their employees the way they do."
Okay, I'll bite. How IS that?
Radwaste at November 8, 2013 9:14 PM
Hilarious comments.
And a suggestion which is quite impossible to implement and even if implemented quite futile since every other place is not much better. Think about it - you avoid china made stuff, what are you going to buy? Stuff from mexico or bangladesh? You think mexico or bangladesh treat their labourers much better? Or guatemala or any other such place? You think the bananas and frozen okra at the supermarket from columbia or guatemala is produced with better conditions for the labourers especially the ones who are not directly employed by chiquita and bonita, but are temporary contract labourers brought in for packing the harvest? Things are not much different anywhere, but they are way better than they were a hundred years back and yes, they are getting better over time for everyone.
If you really have to avoid china made stuff for humanitarian reasons or any other reasons, then probably manufacturing and agriculture have to come back to the USA and Japan and Western Europe since things are reasonable only in those small parts of the world. But I don't see that happening anytime soon...in fact, I don't see it happening in whatever is left of my lifetime.
Redrajesh at November 9, 2013 2:03 AM
I agree Redrajesh, I think many other countries treat their workers more poorly or at least as poorly as China does. And I suppose those slave labor camps, instead of making halloween costumes, could be smelting steel, pulling weeds in the rice paddies, or mining coal. ( and probably are)
But that doesn't excuse the fact that i don't need or want "most" of the stuff that China produces, and I certainly don't trust human foods or pet foods, or vitamin supplements that come from there.
Truth is. If Walmart was a union shop, all the faux outrage over their businesses practices would have been a non starter. That is all the issue has ever been.
Isab at November 9, 2013 2:44 AM
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