Clothes Etc

[TWR]

When bying your clothes etc, do you ever think about the person stitching, making them? I understand we can not help the world but would you decline from bying if you realy knew the conditions they work in?

[ck1]

I see your point, but if we all boycott the clothes that they make what would the people working in those factories do? I don't think they necessarily have a huge range of options to choose from. The companies that use the sweatshops should be more responsible to ensure that suitable wages are paid to the employees as well as better working conditions.

[grasscarp]

No I dont think about conditions of people who pick the cotton, make the clothes, pick tea buds etc. There are many throughout the world on low wages and working in terrible conditions. To stop buying products will not change things for the better.

[Davethedog]

As , however not buying will make things worse. For many people this is the only source of income in an extended family.

Rather than puit the guilt trip on us, people should look at the governments of these countrys that allow it, let us not forget that Asia is the raoring economic Lion of the world, I wonder why?

[Davethedog]

I meant to say as Grasscarp says

[mccfluff]

i do avoid some shops like primark and do try to buy ethically/fairtrade where i can but sometimes i just can't afford it

[B00]

Nope, I don't TWR, not in the slightest-sorry.

[netibiza]

Me neither, sorry.

[boxtops]

No.

Nor do I buy FairTrade food produce. Not deliberately, but it's more expensive.

[Zacs-Master]

Yes I do. Really. And i think...'If i buy this product some of the money will filter down to some person in (?) and they will be able to feed their kids this week'

[andres]

I don't think we should boycott buying the clothes.They need to earn some money but something needs to be done about the clothing companies involved in the Bangladesh building disaster There are over 20.After promising financial help to the families of the bereaved apparently only one--Primark, has done anything so far. These people are in a desperate situation.They have no jobs, no money ,nothing and no-one seems to care!

[EcclesCake]

I try to tread as lightly on the planet as I can and as part of that I do consider how the consumables I purchase are made, by whom and how they are distributed.

I'm doing my bit but, if I'm honest, I doubt it makes a gnat's fart of difference.

[gness]

Same as Eccles..as far as I can. I don't agree that we should buy sweatshop produced goods because this is all the workers have. If there was a complete boycott the first people to feel it would be the ones lining their pockets and change for the workers would happen sooner than if we just keep buying and looking the other way.
I prefer to not buy and to support the third world charities trying to make a difference....lots of farting gnats would be no bad thing...☺

[Connemmara]

Yes I do think of them - when you see items quite cheap you have to say to yourself pity of the critters who sit for hours and hours and hours to make them.

Stacey Dooley produced a documentary re the very young third world workers making these clothes and it broke my heart. What can we do.

[society]

When I find a bargain, I mean good quality at a really cheap price the thought always cross my mind that some poor, innocent, very young child may have had a hand in making 'this'.

[gness]

What can we do, Conne? Not buy them...someone is getting rich on the backs of these workers.

[Ric.ror]

I think stores such as primark should offer customers the option of a charity donation say 50p under a fiver and £1 over
It's not much but it all adds up and could make a huge difference

[Connemmara]

gness - thank God I don't buy many clothes now since I am not working so no need for fancy clothes - my clothes do me for a long time now so can't even give to charity shop either. I only buy for eeek weddings. Conne

[naomi24]

No, I wouldn’t. The people who make them might work for peanuts, but we’d be doing them no favours if we stopped buying. They’d have no jobs and hence, nothing at all. Their children would starve.

[Connemmara]

there is 2 sides to the story

[sherrardk]

I can't afford to. I need my money for my family.