Gallery: Do The Right Thing: Here's How To Avoid Shopping At Slave Labor Shops

It’s the kind of topic no one really wants to talk about. But ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. Each year, there are millions of people all across the globe (mostly women and children) who are working in factories that are not up to code for wages that their bosses should be absolutely ashamed of. They are usually there for over 12 hours a day and can barely make ends meet.

These are known as slave labor conditions. In a perfect world, no clothing store would purchase items from this kinds of companies. But a lot of them do.

Recently, Hello Beautiful published an important piece entitled “New Scientific Technology May Soon Be Able To Tell If Your Clothes Are Slave Labor-Free”. It talks about how technology is coming up with a way to detect how clothing is being made via forensic DNA technology.

But you don’t have to wait until then to do your part to not fund slave labor shops. If you want to send the message that you do not want to support businesses that take advantage of others, here are six ways to do that today.