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We met with Mose Keim in Dunkinsville, Ohio. \u00a0 He’s Amish. \u00a0 He also designs and manufactures high quality, cedar bird feeders. \u00a0 Mr. Keim gave us a tour of his small, low-tech plant. \u00a0 He employs 12 people here and also contracts some of the work out to local Amish families who work off-site at their homes… Mr. Keim said he used to sell through a distributor that is now representing bird feeders made in China. \u00a0 He explained cedar trees are harvested in Kentucky and Tennessee, trucked to the coast, loaded on a freighter and \u00a0shippped to China, trucked to a factory (read: sweatshop), where workers, at extremely low wages, assemble the bird feeders. \u00a0 The bird feeders are then trucked back to the coast, put on antoher freighter, shipped to America, and trucked to the distributor — who then trucks them to the stores… \u00a0 Fossil fuel burned: \u00a0a lot.<\/em> \u00a0 Wages: an affront to human dignity<\/em>… Globalization: at it’s worst<\/em>… \u00a0 This would be tragic, even if it was an isolated incident. \u00a0 But it’s not. \u00a0 It’s the way much of the commerce is going these ‘out-sourcing’ days. \u00a0 And who drives this system? \u00a0 Us. \u00a0 We continue to want items that are cheaper and cheaper, with no thought of social justice, human rights, environmental consciousness, or for that matter, morality…. If most of \u00a0those (who are fairly well off) \u00a0purchase stuff at the cheapest prices possible, in the face of all this global insanity, it’s the sin of: greed — \u00a0in spades. \u00a0 Because we’re often simply concerned about saving as much money as possible — so we can buy even more<\/em> stuff for ourselves. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 We sighted this bumper sticker over the weekend: \u00a0 “Go to church… don’t wait for the hearst to take you.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We met with Mose Keim in Dunkinsville, Ohio. \u00a0 He’s Amish. \u00a0 He also designs and manufactures high quality, cedar bird feeders. \u00a0 Mr. Keim gave us a tour of his small, low-tech plant. \u00a0 He employs 12 people here …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}