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I thought I would share some of my thoughts and stances.

Chocolate, Coffee, Clothes and Toy's. Only the tip of the Iceberg, as the say. Who allows this and why? The answer is simple, we do. The consumer allowes it to happen and we allow the Companies to get away with it. Not as simple as saying No?  I understand we wish to have affoardable goods and income dicatates very much on what we can buy.

However do we really need to have the amount of stuff we own, is the latest pair cool of trainers really necessary to our childrens welfare. Does not having Disney's Pooh Bear or Princess T- Shirt psychologically damage our children. No it does'nt, and children are the most accepting people on the Planet. If we tell them Why we would rather not buy from Disney: http://www.chinastudygroup.net/index.php?action=blog2&type=view&id=54 , our children will accept it and spread the word through their peer group.

If we explain the abuses that take place in the factories that make the latest Addidas trainers then our children will say, no Mummy, Daddy that is wrong: http://www.cleanclothes.org/campaign.htm. They will talk to their friends, and just maybe by saying no, the next generation of consumer will bring about the change that this generation has helped to support. We are all guilty of turning the other cheek, but what if this was our children,Parents and Family. We think this would not happen to us, but the world is not static, and things alter, economies fail, become too greedy, and it does not take much for the First World to become a Third world. This could be us in time to come. I love Winnie the Pooh as you can see from my Avatar, but we do not own a Disney Winnie, we do have an original winnie, sourced in Britain and made through the original A.A. Milne estate, no Disney involved. It is possible to find an alternative to most things in life, and by taking the time to save and research, then the goods become so much more valuable and less likely to be thrown away and disguarded.

Luv, Winnie.xxxx