Nike and the choices we don't have

[Alex Lantsberg]

Since most of the folks who subscribe to this list know of the evils of
Nike, Reebok, Converse and the other athletic shoe manufacturers in respect
to their treatment of their workers, I'd like to pose a question.  What do
those of us who want to wear athletic shoes for basketball, soccer,
cross-training, or any strenuous physical activity do when everything is
made by either slave labor or the oppressed masses?  When you look at the
labels of any shoe in a foot locker or wherever, everything is made in
China, Latin America, or SE Asia.  This tends to imply to me that everything
is made in an unsavory fashion in respect to human rights.  My problem is
that I still want to work out and doing so in shoes that don't fit their
designed purpose is not going to make me or my feet feel good.  So what's a
person to do?