I watched an episode of 美麗藝能界 today. They were talking about how to get brand name products at good prices. So they talked about 2nd hand stores and outlets and stuff. At the end of the show, Annie the host talked about fake products. The general public like myself know that buying fake products is not a good thing, but I never realize there is a very prominent reason. She described the labour behind fake products in country like Vietnam and Thailand are mostly children who are abused and put under horrendous working conditions. She mentioned some brand name companies discovered these children were working in enviornments that are harmful to their health; some factory owner would not provide these children food unless they finish their work, and some even chop off their legs if they try to run away so they wouldn't do it again. I understand that people should not buy fake stuff, but I was also thinking, so what if these children had nothing else to do other than working in these fake product factories? Their government would not look after them anyways, so maybe they would just die without any food.