Travels of a t-shirt

     After reading the first half of travels of a t-shirt, I was very surprised to find out just how damaging a simple, cotton t-shirt can be or the environment, and how exploititive the process of making one can be for the workers who are almost forced to make them. While it starts in the u.s., where cotton famers in places like Texas receive heavy subsidies, which allow them to produce cheap and also relativity in-exploititive labor. Even with this, cotton farming can still harm the environment. I think this is such a surprising thing. I would've guessed cotton farming would have been done in countries where labor is cheap, but the government subsidies really do a lot for the labor pool in America.

    We then see the cotton get sent over to primarily places like China, where clothing companies exploit cheap labor to produce cheap and cotton t-shirts. I can see from a business perspective why companies would do this, it saves a couple extra dollars per t-shirt, but ethically this is a disgusting act, which really shows how small of morals these companies have. the people making these shirts work in in-excusable conditions and get pair an incomprehensibly small wage for doing this terrible work. In my opinion, this book really shows how terrible these companies are and how much they focus on the bottom line rather than any sort of ethics.