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We all buy slave-made products: here's how we avoid feeling guilty

  • Written by Michal Carrington, Lecturer in Marketing, University of Melbourne
We all buy slave-made products: here's how we avoid feeling guiltyModern slaves are not kept in literal chains, but this does not justify being oblivious to it. Consumers should care about how a product is made.Shutterstock

We consume the products of slavery every day. All of us. Today’s globalised supply chains make it is almost impossible to avoid goods or services free of the fingerprints of slavery....

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