Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] consumer info website

[Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I'm with you Scott, the power of the consumer in a capitolist society
is totally under rated.

If people really care about the environment they would pay attention
to something like this, those that don't will not plane and simple. If
there was a list out there I would check it now and again as I was
buying stuff.

On 12/1/05, Scott Hussey <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On 12/1/05, Christian M. Cepel <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > I would absolutely love a website that clearly stated the national
> > origins of all the CRAP musical instruments that glut our market and
> > ebay from Pakistan, North Africa, etc.
> >
>
> Actually, I don't want to track quality of their products. I want to talk
> about the fact they dumped 7000 gallons of mercury in a city reservoir
> making them, or they paid 7 year old children 4 cents a day to build them,
> or they gave Donald Rumsfeld's son-in-law $500,000 for his state rep
> election campaign so they would be allowed to import them.
>
> I don't want to start a political argument, but I'm against government
> regulating everything to the point that you have to ask the local mayor when
> your employees are allowed to go to the bathroom. I'm a proponent of
> consumers identifying companies that do nasty things to the environment,
> society, etc... and boycotts them or writes letters or whatever. The problem
> is finding info on these issues. So when I want to buy a new television, I'd
> like to easily see if Sanyo, Sony, or RCA have done anything to make me
> think twice about buying their products.
>
>
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