OT Do you care were the products you buy are made

[Ruatha]

I try to buy as much local as possible, mostly food from the local region, vegetables and meat and such, hard to buy local bananas and oranges in Sweden though!

If clothes and stuff are made in Sweden, the scandinavia, balticum , europe or africa I try to choose those first, in that order, mainly as to minimize transports but also other reasons.

I have nothing against goods made in USA/Canada/China/India or wherever.

Somehow I tend to mentally kind of prefer the nordic culture, diverse as it is (Scandinavia, parts of Russia and Canada), this sometimes influences me when I buy stuff, but not often.

(Edit: Rextorres > I try to buy stuff from third world countries if I have the choice ,and if am feeling more political than enviromental that day!. )

And when it comes to wine I prefer german wine, becouse of the taste, but I buy good french wine too.

[ January 14, 2004, 05:14: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Narrew]

Originally posted by Ruatha:
prefer the nordic culture, diverse as it is (Scandinavia, parts of Russia and Canada),

I hope not French Canada hehe, J/K everyone, well if I had to vote which part of Canada could be part of the US, I would take the western half, sorry

[rextorres]

Originally posted by Narrew:
Like Fyron said, as long as it works and is not shoddy, I don't worry about it, I would think twice if was French made, but I don't drink wine and thats all I can think of that they sell that I would buy (yes, my reason is political, but thats just me).

As far as everything from China *sigh*, thats the way it seems, I notice alot of JOBs going to India, nothing against India or any other country, but I wonder how long companis will do that till they smarten up and pull those jobs back here?

I think from political stand point China is a lot more noxious than France.

I understand why some people don't like France - but China was right behind it on the Iraq issue -France just took the lead.

France doesn't let it's corporations run defacto work camps and dump untreated toxic waste into the environment. Not to mention that China is an authoritarian regime.

Anyway all those jobs lost are never coming back until American workers are willing to live in the same conditions that workers of third world countries live OR we force any corporation that sells in the U.S. to provide their workers with the same wages and follow the same environmental laws that we expect them to have here.

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by rextorres:
I think from political stand point China is a lot more noxious than France.

I understand why some people don't like France - but China was right behind it on the Iraq issue -France just took the lead.

France doesn't let it's corporations run defacto work camps and dump untreated toxic waste into the environment. Not to mention that China is an authoritarian regime.

Anyway all those jobs lost are never coming back until American workers are willing to live in the same conditions that workers of third world countries live OR we force any corporation that sells in the U.S. to provide their workers with the same wages and follow the same environmental laws that we expect them to have here.

They can come back the day when third world countries have the same standard as the I-world nations..
Last year 30% of the worlds population took the step up from poverty, 17.7 billions now have the same living standard as the "west".

[narf poit chez BOOM]

raising the standard of living world-wide and introducing democracy will benifit the world.

[Kamog]

Last year 30% of the worlds population took the step up from poverty, 17.7 billions now have the same living standard as the "west".

17.7 billion doesn't sound right because that's more than the population of the whole world.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
raising the standard of living world-wide and introducing democracy will benifit the world.

So apparently you agree with the Bush Jr. adminstration's current reasons for the Iraq war.