
Originally Posted by
yoganut
just thought I share this with u gals..
A friend I met who is in the engineering line went to one of the suppliers factories in the middle of night like 3 am for inspection (factory assembly line not fashion related) in China.
The shocking thing he saw was that there were young children ard 9 yr olds working at the machinery assembly lines and having open wounds on their hands and handling the machinery. The reason is because they are cheap like 50cent per hour. .. they work long shifts . Although there are laws agst child labour but in china anything is possible and rules are flouted all the time..
Although people dismissed fakes / replicas as a means of supporting terrorism however, from my friend's account, one thing for sure, the Chinese do anything for money and they have no intergrity and therefore they copy blatantly.
I admit that China-made products across all industries are very popular and I myself also have plenty of china made items at home because their prices are so much cheaper compared to those made in most other countries such electronics, branded clothes which are also made in china! etc .
Although there is no way we can avoid china-made products but I think at least if you buy from reputable brands eg Phillips electronics goods which are made in China, or Calvin Kleins which are made in china, there is at least comfort that you can assume that the factory in Phillips or Calvin Kleins will unlikely flout these rules for fear of being found out of such breach and having adverse publicity / reputation (remember the Nike sweatshop story that made people boycott them?).
However, this cannot be said for replicas churning factories as the likelihood of such abuse are undeniably high when their business are to make dodgey products . By buying replicas, u are possibly supporting such behaviour since these merchants already have no intergrity when they mk replicas so how do u expect them to treat workers fairly.
This is my 2-cents worth. I m just disgusted by the Chinamen who make fake paus, inject melamine in food to fake it as protein and sell waterbuffalos as cows..
If we all stop patronising these zero integirty merchants they will go out of business and thus we can at least reduce the rampantness of these disgusting behaviour..
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