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5. You can't eat, drink, wear clothes, use modern electronics, get engaged with a diamond anymore

Reply to azurnoir (Original post)

Fri May 31, 2013, 07:09 PM

May 2013

without feeling guilty about it. It is crazy. What is a reasonably informed person to do? Go live in a commune when we grow our
own food and make our own clothes? It is impossible to live in modern day society without touching on one horror or another.

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Report: Slaves may be catching the fish you eat [View all] azurnoir May 2013 OP

k&r for exposure. n/t Laelth May 2013 #1

+1 snagglepuss Jun 2013 #10

Thank you for the azurnoir Jun 2013 #12

an important subject that gets inadequate attention BainsBane May 2013 #2

It gets largely ignored and the more you look into it the more shocking it gets azurnoir Jun 2013 #11

$90! BainsBane Jun 2013 #13

I hardly ever eat seafood. Our global appetite is starving ocean predators. redqueen May 2013 #3

I hate most seafood, anyway. Now this gives me another reason to hate it. nt Pragdem May 2013 #4

You can't eat, drink, wear clothes, use modern electronics, get engaged with a diamond anymore Pisces May 2013 #5

WOOHOO! bvar22 May 2013 #6

They aren't catching the fish I eat because I don't eat fish or any other animal. Doremus May 2013 #7

Is any of the vegetables, nuts or fruit that you eat imported? bluestate10 May 2013 #9

The slavery must be stopped. I eat fish that is caught by USA origin boats in northern Atlantic bluestate10 May 2013 #8