Dene siden inneholder vistnok en liste over 2008 sine mest etiske store selskaper. Det er mildt sagt skremmende å se hva slags selskaper som er på listen. Jeg skrev en kommentar til dette, men den kan inneholde mye skrivefeil og slikt, men det driter jeg i, for jeg skal forberede meg til eksamen:
This is a really sick list.
Take McDonalds as an example. Livestock is the perfect way of being unethical. Not only does livestock eat 5-8 times more food than we get when we eat them, food that could have gone to those who are in need of it, but the craving for fodder for livestock is one of the greatest causes of deforestation in South-America. Yeah, beef is actually killing the rainforest. And this food isn’t good for us either, the number of obese people are just going up, and is causing a greater and greater problem all over the world. Thank you McDonalds.
Let’s not forget one of McDonald’s main partner, Coca-Cola Company. The people who are decontaminating ground water around their factories in poor countries, and denying their workers the right for labour unions. And by the way, PepsiCo is no better, and they’re also on this list.
How nice to read about Starbucks, to see that they are so kind to their workers, IN THE US! Accidentally they didn’t mention how the coffee farmers don’t make enough money to make ends meet, how they can’t educate their children because the children have to help with farming. They didn’t mention wastelands that once were nutritious farmlands, now desolate because of over-production of coffee.
Oh, and Google. Thank you for helping China with censoring the internet. It’s probably good for the Chinese to get a feeling that the west is supportive of their government, ant that since the western sites says exactly the same as the Chinese sites, it is undoubtedly true.
Caterpillar sells their machines to Israel, fully aware that the only purpose is to ruin the homes of civilian Palestinians. But of course, this is from the US, and one can’t consider Palestinians as human beings, i forgot that. Stupid me.
And of course, clothing retailers. So maybe Gap is getting a cleaner chain of production, good for all, but the whole concept of these clothing retailers can actually be considered unethical. Their whole goal is to sell more and more clothes, trying to break sales records over and over. Well, this costs the earth. Take a look at the Aral Sea. It’s shrunk down to almost nothing now, because of irrigation for cotton farmers, because cotton takes a lot of water. And the water that’s left is polluted by pesticides from the same cotton farmers. There aren’t actually enough resources to keep this up, with out laying the whole world barren. But who can blame the companies, as it’s the consumer who’s always craving more?
This list is a disgrace.
1 kommentar:
Veldig bra, men du utelot en viktig ting om GAP og retail:
Kan det forsvares som etisk korrekt å bryte ned menneskers selvbilde for så å si "men livet ditt kan bli verd å leve hvis du kjøper klær for flere tusen kroner i måneden, laget av sultne barn som ikke engang kunne dra til McDonalds å kjøpe seg en niceprice eller hva faen det heter etter jobben, fordi de ikke hadde råd."
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