Cheap Products Are Really Expensive

In todays world where the global economy is a reality we look to buy our needs at the lowest price.The price we pay may be a few dollars cheaper because it comes from a country where labour is cheap, where working conditions are dangerous and there is little care for the health of its workers.

We enter the big box stores today and you can hardly find anything made in Canada or the USA. We look at the price tag and but without though of the real cost. The real cost on the living conditions of the people who made these products.

We go to the meat and fish counter and most of the fish is farmed in the South Asian Countries where there are very suspect care in the growing and handling of the product. These countries have a different standard and we are ignorant of these conditions.

I do not put the blame on the countries, nor the workers but clearly on the stores who buy these products knowing about the human suffering because of the lack of human rights.There is a growing concern throughout the world about the health and safety of the workforces that produce the products that we in the west need and purchase.

The price tag on that dress or sweater or running shoe does not have a story line about how , when and at what human suffering it really costs to buy cheap items.I realize that there is another side to this problem and I would not suggest that these workers product be black listed. I would suggest however suggest that corporations who purchase goods off shore and are knowledgeable of improper conditions be held responsible for their actions in the worlds court of opinion .