Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Your Human Trafficking Footprint: Thanksgiving

Image resultWith the holidays approaching fast, it might be easy to overlook Thanksgiving and Black Friday. However, they'll still come and go before the gift-giving ensues, and most of us will find ourselves sitting around a table with family or friends fighting over the last piece of turkey, the last spoonful of mashed potatoes, or even the last dinner roll.
It's easy for us to give thanks for these things, but we don't always consider how much others had to work to get them to us (and no, I don't mean the worker who stayed over late on Thanksgiving to sell you that last minute pumpkin pie, although they should be appreciated, too). What we're going to look into in this article is the sad truth about who's doing the dirty work that eventually turns into the delicious food we dig into at our dinner tables (sorry for the holiday downer 2 days in a row, but this is a human trafficking blog. Go to Pinterest if you want cute ideas for how to decorate your table). For the purpose of this list, we're going to list the food, with a link for further information on what the problem is all about. To see a full list of products to watch out for by country, click here (this list includes clothing and other products). 





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