Yesterday I found in interesting website http://slaveryfootprint.org which sets out questions about your daily life, the things you own etc. At the end they give an estimation as to many slaves contribute to your particular lifestyle. This to me was not about how accurate or false these estimations were but more about the considerations one should take on how your life choices can indirectly affected many others. Slavery like any other business relies on supply and demand of goods. The website made me think about the items I have in my house, who produced them? the food in my cupboards, who picked the crops? the clothes I am wearing, who made them?
What I realised is that whether I like it or not I probably contribute in some towards the slave trade. Whether I buy a brand of clothes who use children in sweatshops to make the items, whether the particular coffee I drink is harvested by forced labour I may never know. For me this just highlighted even more how deep rooted this problem has been throughout history and still remains, will it always be just a part of the human make up of society? How might I change my own actions or ways of thinking after reflecting on such points? Only time will tell what impact this information may have on me or others who have considered the relevance of their own actions upon the life of others.
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