Ethical Wardrobe: Cotton on to Fairtrade jeans | Life and style | guardian.co.uk

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/sep/03/denim

...every autumn when the crop is ready, the government shuts down schools and forces children as young as seven into the fields, with strict quotas to meet and expulsion threatening them if they don't make the grade. You can download the Environmental Justice Foundation's excellent report on cotton in Uzbekistan

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Created by damianrafferty on 03 September 2008

damianrafferty's thoughts:

I now feel guilty about my jeans. Anyway it seems it is possible to buy jeans that are not horrendous offenders against the environment and human rights.

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