Sustainable and Ethical Denim Jeans

Abercrombie and Fitch is a huge corporation reaching out to millions of teens and adults from 18 to 22 to buy "fashionable" products and using bandwagon to cajole teenagers to buy their products and keep in style. However the fact that Abercrombie keeps their code of conduct privately away from customer and shareholders and fails to keep up with International Labor Standards demonstrates how seemingly innocent Abercrombie Denim Jeans have fatal consequences in both the "third" world and around us today. The process of making Denim jeans harms humans and environments every step of the way. Denim jeans originates from cotton plantations. 24% of insecticides and 11% pesticides in the world are sold to protect the cotton harvests and could lead to health complication for the laborers that work on the fields. A test funded by the Environmental Protection Agency that was conducted on September of 2005 stated the organic foods gives "dramatic and immediate" protect from two dangerous organophosphate pesticides. It also releases dangerous gases from the nitrate gases that is used. Then the cotton is taken to factories and sweatshops to be made into these jeans. In many factories and sweatshops a process called sandblasting occurs. In order to obtain the faded or worn look on certain denim jeans the laborers have to blow the jeans with abrasive substances powered by "high powered jet". This process is known world-wide to cause silicosis which leads to lung fibrosis and emphysema, both long term lung diseases that inflicts the victim with shortness of breath and eventually suffer partial lung collapse. By signing this petition, you are helping the thousands of people suffering from corrupt labour practices. Please sign!