Wu pee'd on the rug

Started by BikerDude, November 13, 2014, 11:31:16 AM

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BikerDude

Not the rug man!

Many slave-produced goods might reach your home without you realizing their origin.

Industries where slave labor is often highly suspected include cocoa, cotton, steel, oriental rugs, diamonds and silk. Currently the only way to ensure the products you buy are slave-free is to buy Fair Trade certified goods.

But the chinaman is not the issue.

Carpets
According to the Department of Labor, carpet is produced in 5 countries by child labor or forced labor. The countries include: Afghanistan, India, Iran, Nepal and Pakistan.

This is not a guy who built the rail- roads, here, this is a guy who peed on my...
http://mousaianrugs.weebly.com/the-life-of-a-weaver.html
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The rug industry has a bad reputation regarding the use of child labor in the production of rugs. Do children work in the rug industry? Yes. However, most children work within the family unit just as they would work in the fields helping with the farm or in the pastures helping to herd sheep. They are taught at an early age the art of rug weaving in order to pass the skills on through the generations. This is obviously a very successful method as rug weaving has been virtually unchanged for thousands of years.
However, that is not to say that bonded child labor (i.e. child slavery) does not exist in the rug industry, as well as many other Asian industries. Several organizations exist to combat this atrocity, especially within the rug industry. Some of those organizations are listed below and are doing fabulous work in freeing children sold into slavery.


I lost m'train of thought here.
Fuck it....



Out here we are all his children


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