The True Loss of Humanity
“Everything we wear were once touched by humans.”- Morgan, The True Cost
The majority of people can grab a t-shirt off the shelf without even giving a second thought of where it came from or the work put into making it, let alone the amount of deaths it caused. It may come as a shock to our population that there are so many things happening beneath the surface that no one wants us to know about. Andrew Morgan, a director of The True Cost tells us just how awful the ramifications of the fashion industry are. Morgan intertwines greed, fear, power and poverty by using repetition of words, constructions of media to shape our reality and commercial interests. The True Cost gives us an unbiased and quite gruesome view …show more content…
The True Cost by Andrew Morgan composes how our seemingly “perfect” world affects others and makes us think differently about what we do. By being exposed to the detriments of the people (specifically Bangladesh), one may think before they shop. In this documentary, we are enlightened that fast fashion is a term used for new styles that come out constantly. As a result, the factory workers have to work harder. One of the very garment workers, Shima Akter says with tears in her eyes, “I don’t want the blood of my people on these clothes.” This quotation shows that people are essentially dying over making clothes. We now are acquainted with the idea that by endeavoring into fast fashion we indirectly put people into these misfortunes, people just like us. The thought of harming people hits home, and at what cost? Fashion. Not only is the fashion industry putting countless individuals in harm’s way, but more and more people are taking their own lives. An astonishing fact was surfaced about the climbing rates of farmers committing suicide over the past 16 years (Morgan). Farmers of genetically modified cotton got themselves caught in a rut when they purchased this cotton at an astronomical price and were promised quality. In spite of the promise, pesticides were still essential. This puts farmers into such big debt that their land was eventually taken by the corporations that initially sold them the GMO cotton. Farmers were under such high amounts of stress that ended with them taking their own lives. Approximately one farmer commits suicide every 30 minutes (Morgan). People may have taken into some consideration the impacts of buying clothes but never contemplated that it could result in lives lost. By witnessing the outcomes of the fashion industries beneath the surface, people’s realities might shift to make changes in their
“Everything we wear were once touched by humans.”- Morgan, The True Cost
The majority of people can grab a t-shirt off the shelf without even giving a second thought of where it came from or the work put into making it, let alone the amount of deaths it caused. It may come as a shock to our population that there are so many things happening beneath the surface that no one wants us to know about. Andrew Morgan, a director of The True Cost tells us just how awful the ramifications of the fashion industry are. Morgan intertwines greed, fear, power and poverty by using repetition of words, constructions of media to shape our reality and commercial interests. The True Cost gives us an unbiased and quite gruesome view …show more content…
The True Cost by Andrew Morgan composes how our seemingly “perfect” world affects others and makes us think differently about what we do. By being exposed to the detriments of the people (specifically Bangladesh), one may think before they shop. In this documentary, we are enlightened that fast fashion is a term used for new styles that come out constantly. As a result, the factory workers have to work harder. One of the very garment workers, Shima Akter says with tears in her eyes, “I don’t want the blood of my people on these clothes.” This quotation shows that people are essentially dying over making clothes. We now are acquainted with the idea that by endeavoring into fast fashion we indirectly put people into these misfortunes, people just like us. The thought of harming people hits home, and at what cost? Fashion. Not only is the fashion industry putting countless individuals in harm’s way, but more and more people are taking their own lives. An astonishing fact was surfaced about the climbing rates of farmers committing suicide over the past 16 years (Morgan). Farmers of genetically modified cotton got themselves caught in a rut when they purchased this cotton at an astronomical price and were promised quality. In spite of the promise, pesticides were still essential. This puts farmers into such big debt that their land was eventually taken by the corporations that initially sold them the GMO cotton. Farmers were under such high amounts of stress that ended with them taking their own lives. Approximately one farmer commits suicide every 30 minutes (Morgan). People may have taken into some consideration the impacts of buying clothes but never contemplated that it could result in lives lost. By witnessing the outcomes of the fashion industries beneath the surface, people’s realities might shift to make changes in their