Products Have a History

I just posted some thoughts over at the Acholi Beads blog. All my work concerning ethical consumerism lately has led me to realize that we as a society ignore the most basic facts about what we buy - who made them, where they came from. I'm working on remembering and convincing others to remember that products have a history. From my Acholi Beads post:

"It seems unnecessary to say ‘things come from somewhere,’ but I think that we as a society are quickly forgetting this. We fail to realize when standing before our next purchase that it was made somewhere, by a person, or even many people, and that often it was shipped thousands of miles to be there in front of us.

"Products have a history. And I believe that this history is more important than what the TV ads say about a product."

Read the rest here.