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...speaker at a 1999 Georgetown University student protest against sweatshops turned that question into an accusation. Pietra Rivoli, a professor of business, heard something more: a challenge to find the answer. A few weeks later, she bought a T shirt and began tracing its path from Texas cotton farm to Chinese factory to charity bin. The result is an engrossing new book, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy (Wiley; 254 pages...
Still, Huang cautions that investing in China is perilous. "I've undergone re-education three times," he says--during the Cultural Revolution (when he was sent to farm peanuts in the countryside), when he went to the U.S. to study and when he returned to China and realized that all his American M.B.A. lessons couldn't be applied back home. "There's a belief vacuum in China, which means that many people only believe in money," Huang says. "That means there are con artists everywhere. They will cook their books. They will lie during presentations." As China's experiment...
Pigs have not escaped the horrors of industrial farming, either. Piglets have their ears notched, their tails cut off, their teeth clipped, and are routinely castrated—all without painkillers. They are then fattened up in concrete holding pens inside factory farm walls where their boredom causes fighting and psychological distress. These animals can never feel the earth under their feet, root, or even escape the nauseating stench of their own manure...
It’s uncomfortably obvious that the meat, egg, and dairy industries treat animals as inanimate machines without regard for their welfare. The abuses farm animals suffer are so egregious that if dogs and cats were treated similarly, the perpetrators could be charged with animal cruelty. All of these animals can feel pain and suffering. The only difference is that some are regarded as pets, while others are seen as breakfast, lunch, or dinner...
True strength of character is determined by how we treat those in society who are the most helpless. If we truly believe in kindness and mercy, our purchasing decisions should reflect those much revered qualities. By removing factory farm products from our plates and eating more vegetarian meals, we can all stand on the side of compassion...