Do you play (or try to play) soccer? Football? Basketball? Or do you own one of those super cool sports balls required to play said games? It's probably from Dick's; at least, I'm pretty sure that's where all my soccer balls are from. Well, those sports balls, among a million other things as well, are generally made somewhere across the universe, then shipped to your doorstep (or your Target or whatever). And guess what? Yeah, a lot of times they're made by children in foreign countries (like the one million hand-stitched soccer balls that come into the US from India every year). As in: kids in Pakistan under the age of 14 work up to 10 hours a day stitching leather balls for about $1.20 a day (uh, that would by you roughly 1/3 of a Big Mac : click here to read more). And to boot, the people who take over after the kids use creepy chemicals and such which make people die and pollute everything under the sun. Yup. 
does not like creepy chemicals (or slave labor I should hope). You should be like him, because clearly he's awesome. (He's also Gary Neville, the captain of Manchester United, a beastly football [as in soccer] team that plays in the English Premier League [in other words: he's a professional soccer player who plays better than you ever dreamed you could]. ManU's basically the top football team in Britain. Essentially. Mostly.) Yes, he may be a green-frenzied hippy (people of that sort happen to be awesome), but he's doing good things with his life.
And then there's these people who call themselves Fair Trade Sports, and they are also cool like Gary Neville-- mostly because they make soccer balls that look like this:
And then, also, they don't use slave labor. Or creepy chemicals. So if you're thinking about buying a soccer ball, a football, a basketball, a squash ball, a rugby ball (or whatever they're called), well then, you should go here:
Then, someday, you may be like Gary Neville.
--C&C
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