From Penny Wilde, Hull, East Yorkshire, UK
You highlight the need to clarify the true cost of products on various grounds. It struck me that one good example of where this is needed is for the tea we drink, because production can take place in impoverished places. If factories aren’t run to Western standards and a living wage isn’t paid, that keeps prices artificially low (2 December, p 40).
We use the labour of these workers, take their wealth and criminalise them when they come to Western nations wanting a share of it. We make our own immigrants by both waging war and paying unrealistic prices.
