😩 ~ Millions of ‘slaves’ around the world still making stuff we buy today (RT) ~ | Blogger: [🧐In today’s throwaway society, more and more people have adopted what we might call a throwaway mentality and that culture, is detrimental to the climate and waste of resources. The million-dollar question now is whether we should wrestle with our I-really-don't-care brainfart attitude and simply stop buying products, that we know of, has modern slavery in their production line😔] ... |

Labourers work at a garment factory in Vietnam for brands such as Nike, Adidas, H&M, Gap, Zara, Armani and Lacoste © Reuters

There were 40.3 million people living in conditions of slavery in 2018, mostly women, a recent report by the Walk Free Initiative shows. Researchers say slavery did not end with abolition in the 19th century but just changed form. Katharine Bryant, the manager of global research for Walk Free, told Quartz that some 16 million victims of slavery work within poorly-monitored supply chains. That doesn’t include child labor, or exploitative work conditions that don’t limit freedom of movement.

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