Re: MD Where the ads take aim

Hi there,

--

Just a note:  If anyone lives in Brooklyn, they should check out the exhibit of Ed Burtynsky : Manufactured Landscapes.  I saw this showing at a gallery in toronto and it just brought things home a lot more.

--

Initially I was interested in this "buy nothing" day, but it doesn't take long walking around on the streets to see that it affects nothing.  Even if you actually buy nothing, 1/365th of the year, I'm not sure what the supposed goal is. 

 

Recently, I have become more and more aware of the consumption of cheaply produced  (china being the primary example here) goods.  I tried to look for a pair of regular (non formal) shoes, not produced in china, and browsed a good 10-15 blocks of boutiques on Queen street (a very trendy street with the 'latest' and'greatest').  I found perhaps 3-5 pairs that were not made in china.

 

Here are the brands that are produced solely in china (as many as I remember anyways):

Adidas, Puma, Diesel, Elastic, Vans, Airwalk, Roos, Pony, Nike, Reebok, And1, Ecco, Osiris, Kangol, and O'neil.

These are brands where 100% of shoe models I looked at are made in China.   Also, this week my brother purchased some shoes from a retailer who was going out of business here in TOronto.  He said that in the last 10-15 years, about 30 shoe factories in toronto closed down, and that about 95% of all shoes in North America are produced in China.

 

This also can be said for clothing, which is produced in any of the multitude of countries which provide dirt cheap labour.

This can also be said for electronics, cookware, automobiles, and just about anything you can imagine.

 

I'm trying right now(as of a month ago), not to buy any goods produced in china, india, bangladesh, etc. because I don't want to support this kind of business.  It's pretty hard though, and I'm wondering what I'll do when I need clothes?  I even bought a very "nice" cuisinart rice cooker, which alas, was also made in china.

 

I think adbuster, now that it has a pretty significant amount of readers, should try and promote concious consumption.  All of the production of goods, has been shifted to countries that have no ethical or environmental standards of any sort.

 

This is where the ads are aiming for.  Complete, and utter mass production.  Mass production of opinion, ideas, activities, products, and services.

 

 

What do you think guys(gals)?

 

 

 

POOT