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@Chuckles
You have some information on the working conditions in pharmaceutical factories?
Pharmaceutical companies are blood sucking, anti-social corporations too. Far worse than Nike in many ways. But the struggle against Nike is a specific, ongoing workers' struggle. It is a righteous struggle, and pointing out the ubiquity of sweatshops, or the nearly-inevitable hypocrisy of people who struggle against sweatshops, misses the point at best, and serves as a justification for the status quo at worst.
For the record, I am currently wearing a union-made shirt, sweatshop-free Swrve jeans, union-made underwear and socks, and sweatshop-made shoes. You can't win 'em all, but giving people shit for trying is really uncool.