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To: Michael M who wrote (65698)	12/7/1999 1:37:00 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Okay, I will burn all my hand-knotted Oriental carpets, for sure! Well, actually, I don't have any, but I would not buy one, either, exactly for that reason. I did read recently that there is an organization started by an American teenager called Free the Children, and they have established a process where carpets which are not made with child labor are identified and marked so that consumers can now choose.

To: Michael M who wrote (65698)	12/7/1999 11:53:00 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I suggest we begin by burning all of our hand-knotted oriental carpets. Well, my ex has a pov similar to yours I believe (on these trade issues anyway), and when he went to Pakistan (or India I can't remember which trip this actually was), I asked for a rug. He went with someone to the rug factory and saw the children working, he said some of them had a twitch in their arm from knotting the yarns that just kept going even though they had stopped working... some kind of psychological symptom. It was a while ago and I didn't know anything about the labor that produces these rugs. He decided then not to buy one.