{"id":1303,"date":"2012-03-05T18:26:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T18:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2012-03-05T18:32:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T18:32:16","slug":"why-are-we-so-unaware-of-sweat-shops-and-the-cost-to-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/03\/why-are-we-so-unaware-of-sweat-shops-and-the-cost-to-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are we so unaware of sweat shops and their cost to Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Adidas, Nike, Puma<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Big names, the sports gear, most buy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The olympics are coming to London<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And their sales, are gonna\u00a0 be high<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But back where the shoes are now made, folks<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Can you imagine the pain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Those sweatshops, the uglier aura<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The workers with\u00a0 far less to gain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They work like the clappers for little<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In conditions that clearly appal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">80 hour weeks<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">15 p an hour<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh! Bangladesh does it gall?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Any to know<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">what is happening<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The poor workers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">suffer so much<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The corporate crowds<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Create these great shrouds<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And most of us stay out of touch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers must begin to question who makes the products we eat and use, and do they live a comparatively normal fair life or are they slaves.This question is sadly not asked enough.The consequences are tragic and ongoing<br \/>\nWe owe so much to War on Want  check out p.collins@waronwant.org 020=7324-5054  <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/03\/why-are-we-so-unaware-of-sweat-shops-and-the-cost-to-humanity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}