Organic Consumers Association
Campaigning for Food Safety, Organic Agriculture, Fair Trade & Sustainability

"When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field 
in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, 
we are in the Dark Ages of commerce. 
Maybe one thousandth of this aerial insecticide actually prevents the infestation. The balance goes to the leaves, into the soil, into the water, 
into all forms of wildlife, into ourselves. 
What is good for the balance sheet 
is wasteful of resources and harmful to life." 

Paul Hawken, The Ecology of Commerce (1993) 

"Today young, mostly female workers in Bangladesh, 
a Muslim country that is the fourth-largest garment producer 
for the United States market, are paid an average of 1.6 cents 
for each baseball cap with a Harvard logo that they sew. 
The caps retail at the Harvard bookstore for $17,
 which means the garment workers, who often are younger 
than the Harvard students, are being paid a tenth of 1 percent 
of the cap's price in the market.. 
Don't we have the consumer and political power to pressure our corporations 
to end sweatshop wages being paid to the people who make these goods?" 

Charles Kernaghan, Director of the National Labor Committee and Tom Hayden, former California state senator,  "Pennies an Hour and No Way Up," New York Times Op Ed (July 6th, 2002)

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