If Not You,Then Who Will Guard the Global Village?
7) Does the food provide adequate nutrition for workers?
SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE AND
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But there is a quandary that exists for American buyers throughout the supply chain—suppliers, distributors and end-users. If 80 percent of toys, sporting goods and the like are being produced in China, what are these buyers to do? In purchasing products, it is not that Americans collectively don’t care about the rights of others. “When [former] Labor Secretary Reiche posed the question, it was extraordinary, something like 65 percent of the American people are very concerned about child labor offshore and concerned about sweatshops. Eighty percent of people polled said, ‘Yes I’ll pay, I’ll pay 5 percent more on products if they give me a guarantee [they were] made under humane conditions,” Kernaghan said. He continued, “I think good intentions are there. I think the awareness is there. But then nothing is delivered. The social movement wasn’t strong enough to come up with viable alternatives.”
- Companies:
- Dard Products
- People:
- Charles Kernaghan