Child labor is talked about, but do we actually see it?

Unfortunately, the answer is yes.

If there is a secret, it's poorly kept, because unfortunately, we know that in poor countries children work, and yes, I know we don't all live in Care Bear Land, that education, whatever people say, is a privilege, but seeing young children work with my own eyes, I don't know, it gets to me.

What's more, they pick cotton, and everyone wears cotton; don't tell me your wardrobe only has synthetics? You definitely have a cotton t-shirt. Beyond worrying about it being organic cotton or fair trade (other debates), have you ever been interested in where your top comes from? Or why bother, I'll buy it and I don't care where it comes from. Because if there's one country where we know that child labor in cotton fields is routine, I'd say it's Uzbekistan. And we've been talking about it for several years, there have been several TV shows about it, but the problem is still not resolved.

A staggering 2 million children are sent to the cotton fields every year, and some are not yet 7 years old (the age when they normally learn to read), working 10 hours a day.

So, gentlemen of large corporations, put pressure on the Uzbek government, and we, as buyers, should no longer buy products whose cotton comes from this country. Of course, the ideal is to switch to organic, because the supply chain is "traced," we know where the cotton comes from, who makes it, and above all, human dignity is respected.

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