I get it but I hate putting responsibility on the consumer beyond having a little personal responsibility. Especially when we are at a point where it's nearly entirely unavoidable to exist ethically in the west. The next 10 items you touch will almost certainly have some exploited foreign labor involved at some point in the process either entirely or components of the item or the packaging. Probably every item you touch today.
Well the responsibility is on the consumer, I know it's scary, but every person has a responsibility to make moral choices, like avoid exploitative foreign made products, buying nationally produced foods etc. Obviously it will never be 100%, but that is no reason to just shrug all responsibility in defeat. Change is slow. I manage pretty well with not much money to buy products from US/UK/EU nations, buy mostly local or ethically sourced foods. Does it mean I don't get to have some things? Maybe, but that's the choice most people seem unable to make. Luckily the market is correcting for this consumer desire for more ethical products, and my local supermarkets all have products in that vein in every category.
I get it but I hate putting responsibility on the consumer beyond having a little personal responsibility. Especially when we are at a point where it's nearly entirely unavoidable to exist ethically in the west. The next 10 items you touch will almost certainly have some exploited foreign labor involved at some point in the process either entirely or components of the item or the packaging. Probably every item you touch today.
I think it would have happened regardless
Well the responsibility is on the consumer, I know it's scary, but every person has a responsibility to make moral choices, like avoid exploitative foreign made products, buying nationally produced foods etc. Obviously it will never be 100%, but that is no reason to just shrug all responsibility in defeat. Change is slow. I manage pretty well with not much money to buy products from US/UK/EU nations, buy mostly local or ethically sourced foods. Does it mean I don't get to have some things? Maybe, but that's the choice most people seem unable to make. Luckily the market is correcting for this consumer desire for more ethical products, and my local supermarkets all have products in that vein in every category.