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No-one forces you to buy junk
Be a citizen first and then a cautious consumer second. You empower yourself when you hold on to your money and think before you spend. Bottom line? You! You send a message to the CHEAP LABOR CROWD when you refuse to buy unsafe products, and be a part of the corruption you say you're so opposed to. Don't make these manufacturers rich off the backs of child labor and the plunder of a poor country's people and resources. There's unbleached organic turbinado sugar made from evaporated cane liquid for your sweet tooth and pesticide coffee beans. You don't have to look on the moon for these products, most supermarkets now sell guilt free safe to eat ... What a bummer! It just takes a bit of time and tad more money. I also try to buy as much locally made food as I can. Keep my closest neighbors still in business. That's what's FAIR to me, besides those free roaming organic eggies taste so much better than the ones that come from chicken raised in cages with their beaks cut off pumped with hormones and antibiotics. Yuck! Why should I want that in my body (Insert picture of two foot by two foot wire cage with 20 small bleeding chickens inside with young child pointing to it saying ''Ooh mommy can I have that one for supper!") Sorry, use your imagination! I buy what I absolutely need. We try to fix what's broken or replace it with something better. I am not the CONSUMER I was twenty five years ago. I buy small amounts of well made products and good nutritious foods and I leave the cheap poorly made junk on the shelves where it can rot... I research before I buy, it takes more time but I'm usually pleased with a better made product. In a world where people take three weeks to decide on a car they're going to buy it always leaves me scratching my head when I see how quickly they are to put any old prepackaged crap in their bodies only to make the pharmaceutical companies filthy riches twenty years later when they are riddled with self induced ailments they could have avoided. Example you ask? A bowl of rolled oats with an apple for a snack later in the morning as opposed to the on sale generic Lucky Charms or Fruit Loops followed by a trip to the candy vending machine. Because that's all Americans have left while they're leasing that $27,000 automobile they must have. Sorry but the consumers sure have their priorities are all screwed up. Remember I was the one who sat on a made in China lawn chair that collapsed on my hand and nearly cut my finger off. Safety is null and void over there. Why do you think American companies moved there in the first place? I had to learn that the hard way. They tried every trick in the book. They even changed company's name to try to hide, after three years we got them. I just refuse to buy products that are made with little or no safety at all in mind. Don't be consumed, be concerned, get out and help someone. Greed can exist with socialism communism, Marxism, mercantilism or any other ism for that matter... Greed sucks in any shape or form. There's no room for it, there's no need for it!
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