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Seventy percent of the flowers sold in floral shops and supermarkets throughout the United States and the developed world are produced on plantations in Colombia, Ecuador and Kenya. The companies that own these plantations or outsource work to them often deprive workers of rights and proper wages. According to the Center for Research and Advisory Health, a non-profit social medicine organization that has worked in Latin America since 1979, the average floral worker in Colombia makes 58 cents per hour—far below the national poverty line. Job security is also often nonexistent: workers are hired...
Furthermore, highly toxic pesticides and fertilizers are often used in order to give the flowers their impeccable appearance that U.S. and European markets demand. Workers handle these chemicals without proper safety equipment or training. According to Corporación Cactus, a non-governmental organization that advocates for flower workers, this exposure leads to health problems for nearly two-thirds of the work force, which is largely female. Miscarriages and birth defects are common consequences. If you would rather buy a bouquet with a less-tainted past, head to Kabloom—it sells organic flowers...
...proper response to this information is not necessarily a boycott. In the current system, exploited workers in foreign countries suffer most when demand for these products falls sharply. Still, you have an excuse tomorrow when your significant other comes looking for the Valentine’s Day gift you forgot to purchase: it was all in the name of conscientious consumption. You can make a date of it. Sit down together with pen and paper and write a few Valentines to the two major cocoa purchasers in the U.S.—M&M/Mars and Hershey?...
...This] helps explain why it would be reasonable and proper for a high percentage of high grades to be awarded in [the humanities],” he said...
...that didn’t take care of all the costs. Fried still needed to find proper equipment for the campers at little or no cost to them. Since new skates are in the neighborhood of $300 to $350, and goalie pads up to $1,000, members of both the Harvard men’s and women’s hockey teams donated old equipment from their basements. Fried then took the used equipment to Play It Again Sports and exchanged it for youth sizes and sold them to the kids for essentially nothing. Five bucks for skates...