About a year back i posted a rant all about fake purses and how I hate them so much. I finally found the perfect article stating why I hate them so much.
"It is estimated that up to 7 percent of our annual world trade — $600 billion worth — is counterfeit or pirated; that fakes are believed to be directly responsible for the loss of more than 750,000 American jobs; that everything from baby formula to medicine is counterfeited, with tragic results; that counterfeiters and the crime syndicates they work with deal in human trafficking, child labor, and gang warfare; and that counterfeiting is used to launder money, and the money has been linked to truly sinister deeds such as terrorism."
'I remember walking into an assembly plant in Thailand a couple of years ago and seeing six or seven little children, all under 10 years old, sitting on the floor assembling counterfeit leather handbags,' an investigator told me... 'The owners had broken the children's legs and tied the lower leg to the thigh so the bones wouldn't mend. [They] did it because the children said they wanted to go outside and play.'"
It's stories like this that make me so upset when i see a girl carrying a fake "chanel" or a fake "coach" bag.
for the rest of the article...http://www.harpersbazaar.com/magazine/feature-articles/the-fight-against-fakes-0109_
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