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Do you use products that are manufactured using child labour?
July 3, 2010 - 03:35 PM
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Recently I was watching tv and came across this BBC documentary and was astonished to learn that large chocolate manufactures are using child labor in parts of africa to farm cocoa. This cocoa is then used to make the popular sweet treats enjoyed all over the devloped world , such as Kit Kat bars made my Nestle.
see link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6517695.stm
This begs the question how can you be sure the products you use everyday are not supporting the ongoing use of child labour?
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Re: Do you use products that are manufactured using child labour?
July 3, 2010 - 10:43 PM
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the government should ban child labour and inspect the factories or other sites that can easily penetrated by other labour childrens.
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Re: Do you use products that are manufactured using child labour?
July 4, 2010 - 06:10 PM
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it's crazy that multi-national corporations can get away with such a blatent disregard of international guidelines set by the U.N.. It really brings to light the ineptitude of the UN to bring these people to justice.
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Re: Do you use products that are manufactured using child labour?
July 5, 2010 - 03:39 AM
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Many poor and development country still use children labour to produce it. Is boicot solve problem? i say "no". Because the children do it better than join with criminal.
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Sometimes
February 21, 2011 - 03:51 PM
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 But I LOVE kit kats...
Yes I have learned about sweatshops and child labor. It is hard to find affordable clothes that I would wear that aren't made in sweatshops...I try to make a lot of my own clothes and buy from thrift stores whenever possible. SO my answer is, I try not to.
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Re: Do you use products that are manufactured using child labour?
May 21, 2011 - 01:18 PM
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Unfortunately we all use products that are manufactured by child slaves. And the worst part is that we don't even realize it. The Gap? Nike? Banana Republic? All those seemingly "nice stores" are actually helping to enforce child labor. Most of us don't even think about that when we go shopping. Everywhere we look we see things that come from a third world country where child slavery is considered normal.
It is obvious that child labor is a terrible thing, but no one does anything to stop it. We let it go on and pretend that it isn't there. Want it to stop? Maybe the government should ban companies from purchasing their goods from these places.
That won't happen though because it is cheaper to have something made by a child slave than in the USA or Canada. Money is everything these days and companies care more about how much they make than the children that make their products.
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Re: Do you use products that are manufactured using child labour?
May 29, 2011 - 01:09 PM
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Actually i don't know the answer to this question..whether i use products that are manufactured using child labor? because living in a country like Nepal where there is unemployment, hunger, political chaos...we don;t have the luxury to choose things like this...i know using a child as a labor in any industry is not an encouraging scenario but then what good will it make if we simply stop using these products..it won't do any good, in turn it will shut down that industry and you will have more hungry mouths to feed in coming days to come....so i think child labor should be stopped but then not just by boy cutting things/products but then understanding the situation and acting accordingly...that's all i have to say 
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Re: Do you use products that are manufactured using child labour?
June 16, 2011 - 12:09 AM
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I saw a programme on tv where high-end stores in London sold clothes that were made using child labour in India. And the reporter said that because people in rich cities like London are throwing away new clothes, just because they become out of fashion or because a button goes missing, are contribbuting to a rise in child labour and other labour rights violations. No one should throw away good clothes and stop over-consumerism.
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Re: Do you use products that are manufactured using child labour?
June 22, 2011 - 04:48 PM
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I am not a proponent of child labor, but people need to realize that these countries are not the United States and they operate much differently.
Regardless if these children were working in a factory or not, these kids would be working with there families to scrape up enough food to provide for there survival.
Working in some kind of factory is much better than starving, especially since the companies they work for usually pay them 3-4 times what they would be paid for doing work in any other vocation they could find in their county, which they would have to do to stay alive.
I personally would rather see them working in a factory than be a child prostitute which is often the alternative.
It is not like these kids were just playing Xbox and got snatched from their comfy living room couch to go work in a factory. These kids are often happy to have some kind of roof over their head and food to eat just so they can survive. Working in a factory is a blessing for most of these kids, not a curse.
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Re: Do you use products that are manufactured using child labour?
June 23, 2011 - 04:37 AM
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There isn't any way we can be certain that the products we use don't employ child labour. Some products have labels that cetify no animnal testing was done to manufacture the product, we could have similar labels that state child labour wasn't used. Children may be marginally better off in factories, but only by a degree. In factories they are made to work 14-16 hrs in dim lights and paid very little or sometimes not paid at all. Sometimes they are chained. Child prostitution is worse,I agree,but inhuman working conditions aren't any better.
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Re: Do you use products that are manufactured using child labour?
June 27, 2011 - 09:20 AM
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123fun123 wrote:
I am not a proponent of child labor, but people need to realize that these countries are not the United States and they operate much differently.
Regardless if these children were working in a factory or not, these kids would be working with there families to scrape up enough food to provide for there survival.
Working in some kind of factory is much better than starving, especially since the companies they work for usually pay them 3-4 times what they would be paid for doing work in any other vocation they could find in their county, which they would have to do to stay alive.
I personally would rather see them working in a factory than be a child prostitute which is often the alternative.
It is not like these kids were just playing Xbox and got snatched from their comfy living room couch to go work in a factory. These kids are often happy to have some kind of roof over their head and food to eat just so they can survive. Working in a factory is a blessing for most of these kids, not a curse.
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That has to be one of the most deluded comments I've ever heard.
"Working in a factory is a blessing for most of these kids.." Are you for real???
Seriously, the kind of CHILD labour we are talking about is huge multi-national companies that exploit poor people in third world countries to increase their profit margins.
Sadly, it goes to show the state of the world we live in that someone like yourself would think it an acceptable state of affairs.
Just imagine for a second that the US economy collapses and American kids are forced to work 12 hours a day for little more than food & water. Would you be happy for your kids to go through that?
Bottom line - the world is rich enough to feed, clothe, and educate all the children of the world. But we don't - because we want nice things at low prices, and if you're typical of the American public then they dont care how they get those nice things.
Read your post again, go look at yourself in the mirror and try to tell me that those kids are "blessed".
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Re: Do you use products that are manufactured using child labour?
March 10, 2012 - 09:55 PM
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One of the possible solutions is to form an independent certification body controlled by the UN and I believe as a consumer we have the right to know how all these products are manufactured, the country of origin and whether child labor is involved. If I want to buy a particular product I would definitely look for brands with the logo bearing this certification process. What we need is an audit system in place to highlight this practice to consumers like us. And obviously those companies which have nothing to hide should take it to raise their image and profile.
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Re: Do you use products that are manufactured using child labour?
May 8, 2012 - 06:44 AM
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I try not use such products but I believe that not always we know where the produce comes from...
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Re: Do you use products that are manufactured using child labour?
May 10, 2012 - 11:08 AM
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I'm going to honest and say that I probably do use products manufactured by child labourers. I am not sure which ones they are but it is likely that the majority of the North American population indavertenly support child labour.
the majority of my clothes are made in a sweatshop free environment and the seamstresses get paid fair wages.
I know this because most of my clothes are from americna apparel-I worked there for 2 years and accumulated a lot of clothes.
it's good to know that the person who made my shirt was paid about 15$/hr to do it.
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Re: Do you use products that are manufactured using child labour?
May 21, 2012 - 07:51 AM
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We will abandon the products or services that uses child labour for its formation.then its demand will decrease.then its production will decrease.then the child labour will be discouraged.and then the problem will be solved.but we should understand that what are the reasons that tend these children to go for that option.definately the direct policy decisions will not do.the problem will be solved through a trickle down effects of the developments in situations like poverty,employment etc.
Good education will lead to decrease unemployment which will lead to decrease in poverty and there will not be any need to send the children to work.and the education will also be a catalyst as it will lead to family planning concept which will have effect of small families with small demands.
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