CRY

Cry. Cry your eyes out for all the starving children you can't save. Cry a river for the Chinese and Indian rice farmers you can't console. Blubber and shudder and let out a long sigh for all of those Arab babies you paid to have blown to bits. Claw at your face and pound your fist onto the nearest surface for the deformed South American children ravaged by the effects of illegal pesticides used indiscriminately to destroy coca fields. Now what have you done? You have cried. Does it make you feel better? Does it change anything? Does it make someone else's struggle your own? When you go about your day, doing the same mundane things that you do every single day, think about where your money goes. Where does your coffee come from? Is that really basmati rice or was it grown in Texas? Could you have walked to the store just now? Was it necessary to burn gas? Isn't there a war for oil somewhere? Do your research. Learn the difference between free trade and fair-trade. Cry. Bawl. Blubber. Shudder. Scream. And then WAKE UP!!!

- Anonymous author in Adbusters magazine

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