| In suburban areas you tend to find people waking up | | | | shirt over all. The pesticides are washed off of the |
| at 6am, jogging around the town, and sitting down | | | | plant during the rain and seep into nearby water |
| for their morning latte without a care in the world. | | | | systems and contaminate surrounding areas killing off |
| These early morning folk are socially conscious for | | | | plant an animal life. But it's not just the animals in |
| whatever reason (normally the need to be a part of | | | | danger! No, the farmers who have to use the |
| a fad) and will only drink fair trade coffee, eat | | | | pesticides are normally without the proper equipment |
| organic food, and essentially shun anything that when | | | | and can suffer from lung cancer and other diseases |
| eaten could have a negative impact on their body or | | | | and ailments from being exposed to the chemical |
| moral conscience. Now it should be said that this is a | | | | substances for too long. |
| good thing, at least for whatever reason people are | | | | The Polo T shirt, something we've all come to enjoy |
| actively saying 'no' to consumables that could have | | | | as a symbol for American Prepiness, stability, and |
| possibly been produced by unfair labor or with | | | | other positive symbols; however it is easy to not |
| something not fit for human consumption. But these | | | | notice that not only do these shirts suffer from |
| polo wearing, latte drinking, organic loving people are | | | | synthetic cotton, but they are more than likely not |
| forgetting that the majority of their clothing remains | | | | part of the fair trade movement. Fair trade can be |
| products of child labor and are very, very far from | | | | simply defined as people in areas of the world being |
| anything organic. | | | | paid fair wages for their work to uplift their living and |
| Cotton, the most ubiquitous ingredient in just about | | | | educational systems. Non-fair trade countries such as |
| every form of clothing: polo t shirts, graphic tees, | | | | China are more than likely where your shirts come |
| cargo pants, plaid shorts, canvas bags, and even | | | | from; China being one of the top havens for child |
| messenger bags all contain some amount of cotton. | | | | labor and violations of human rights laws. It's easy to |
| The majority of the cotton contained in these | | | | overlook where your clothing comes from because |
| objects is synthetic, meaning that they are grown | | | | it's not something that you have to ingest like food; |
| with artificial chemical substances unlike their organic | | | | however, for all of those socially conscious latte |
| brethren. These non-naturally occurring materials such | | | | drinkers out there, you might want to consider just |
| as pesticides and plant stimulants are not only harmful | | | | where that polo t shirt came from before wearing it |
| to the environment, but degrade the quality of the | | | | in the morning. |