I've concentrated this first slide to purely be about the division in the high street, and how many shops are lying derelict in our streets today...but then contrasted this slide with do we really know what we're buying into?
Various shops over the years have been found to be using sweatshops as a means of cheap production, even brands such as Calvin Klein.
I focused on other events that were masking a hidden truth, such as the horsemeat scandal, where the product was listed as something it wasn't. Another example would be human trafficking, which goes on all over the place, but noone really notices. A shocking example I found of this was to do with the cocoa trade, something as mundane as buying a chocolate bar could really be funding child labour and trafficked workers, even bars marked as fairtrade are not all they say they are, promising fair wages etc. As the cocoa trade is so hard to trace directly, many companies may not even be aware of what's going on behind the scenes, and with no way of tracing, there's no way of stopping.
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