Make Poverty History: Stop Wearing Wristbands!

Are you wearing a wristband to promote your favorite cause? Ever wonder where it was made? Now we know:

Link: Anti-poverty wristbands produced in sweatshops.

FASHIONABLE wristbands worn by pop stars, actors, top athletes and celebrities to publicise the Make Poverty History campaign are produced in appalling "slave labour" conditions, damning evidence has revealed.

Chinese factory workers producing the white rubber bracelets are forced to toil in conditions that violate Chinese law and the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) set up to establish international standards for working conditions.

For the record, I don't wear anything on my wrist that can't be anchored down. My wrist is thin and bracelets flop around, so needless to say, this fashion craze never appealed to me. Plus it sounded a little too much like the WWJD? idiocy of a few years ago.

What would Jesus do? Probably turn the wristbands into fishes and feed the poor.

Comments

[Donna]

Great news find! Now if only the same news would come out about those damn car magnets. Yet somehow I think the people who put those on their car wouldn't care too much if they were made by sweatshop slaves. I'd like to be wrong.