Egyptian Cotton Sheets: Made From Blood, Sweat, and Child Labor

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/255847

For those that use Egyptian cotton sheets, you may want to think about how those sheets were made in the first place.

There are many that use cotton sheets for their beds. Have one ever thought about where such cotton sheets have come from? There are a good number of cotton sheets that come imported from Egypt. But, has one ever thought about where those Egyptian cotton sheets come from? Has one thought about who does the labor behind getting the cotton necessary for these sheets?

It has been revealed that these Egyptian cotton sheets have been made from child labor. Yes, these kids work out in 104 degree Fahrenheit weather for ten-hours a day. And these kids get paid in peanuts. The pay really isn’t in peanuts. The money these kids make can be compared to mere peanuts.

The children are not being forced to do the labor. They are doing such jobs because their families need the money.

One example is Shaban Abdulal Zarhal, who lives in a mud and brick home with his wife, and four children. They live in a meager lifestyle and a meager diet. After a meager meal, the family returns to work out in the sun.

The wife is currently pregnant.

The children work out in the cotton fields picking cotton. Abdul Rachman, the youngest son is charged with the task of taking worms off the cotton leaves. If he does not, the worms will eat up the cotton rendering it as no good.

FULL STORY AT LINK.

[hedgehog]

1. Got any sources for American made sheets and towels?

I went to K-Mart, Sear's and Macy's and came up with zilch.

[aquart]

2. So if we boycott these sheets, the families starve and the children die?

Every member of that family works every day, all day.

Each one of those children knows he is doing something important for his family's survival. He knows he is pulling his weight.

MOST OF THE WORLD LIVES THAT WAY.

What is it, exactly, you think you can do to change it by starving that nation's economy?

[Omaha Steve]

3. My dad worked at a rock quarry at the age of 11 in Southern Indiana

He crossed a picket line to help feed his family of 14 kids and my uneducated Native American grandmother. My grandfather Orville was a bootlegger and a bigamist. He spent a lot of time in jail. My dad put his hands in holes with explosives to small for adults to do. I understand it. I don't condone it! Stop child labor. It's the right thing to do.

[ORDagnabbit]

4. birth control should be free to all. n/t

[Omaha Steve]

5. Sheets made in the USA at Target

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