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Each of us has a moral and social responsibility to ensure that no people were
harmed or exploited in the harvest, manufacturing, or advertising of the products we purchase.
Here are some resources that may help you become a more discriminating shopper.
You can always visit our Fair and Free Shopping Guide for links to fair-trade vendors
- Products that are most likely to be made by child or forced labor from the Huffington Post:
Essentially, be careful when you purchase carpets, cocoa, coal, diamonds, garments, rice, coffee, bricks, tobacco, sugarcane, cotton, or gold.
- Dirty Work: The Creeping Rollback of Child-Labor Laws from Time:
In America, several states are being pressured by popular employers of young people (eg. fast food restaurants) to loosten restrictions on child-labor laws.
- American Apparel: A timeline of controversy from The Week:
American Apparel, known for its ads that capitalize on the sexualization of children to sell clothing, is always controversial.
- Sex Sells? Oh Really? from About.com:
A list of some of the Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies that use sexual exploitation of women (in some cases, children) in their advertising
- Killing Us Softly 4 from Jean Kilbourne:
A discussion of the ways in which media manipulates images of women to make them look younger and thinner.
- Parents of Children on TLC’s ‘Toddlers in Tiaras’ Hurting Their Kids, Critics Say from Fox News:
An examination of the ways in which “glamorous” beauty pageants and the sexualization of young girls is dangerous and harmful.