In Westminster today, the topic of Child Slavery is being debated.

Incredibly, there are an estimated 218 million Child Slaves worldwide, most of them forced into Agricultural work as a result of poverty, but in addition, just about every type of product that you can buy in a shop, is somewhere manufactured, either wholly or in part, by child slaves.

Primark is a particularly famous culprit, as is Gap.

I would like to take this opportunity to recommend that people check out where there goods are made and by whom before buying them, and seek out ethical goods instead.

An estimated 280 or so child slaves are brought into the UKeach year, and of these, a third end up in the sex industry, and around 20% end up cultivating cannabis.

So those of you who smoke cannabis, again, think about who you are getting it off, and where they are getting it etc ...

... I don't smoke it anymore these days, but if I did ... well I'd probably stop.

There are an estimated 5000 child sex workers in the UK.


There are things we can't do, but if, as I suspect, catters are as appalled by child slavery as I am, then taking the time to work out how and where our conveniiences are manufactured could be a good way to start opposing it.