l am a runner and boycott Nike because they export jobs to exploit cheap overseas labor, but I know that they are hardly the only ones doing it. I've been just stuck buying shoes in brands I don't know are doing this, (but don't know they are not either). Any runners that can reccommend a good shoe that is definately not made by an unprincipled corporation?
i know of several firms that try very hard to stay on top of corporations who use sweat shop labour. the last time i checked up on this was about 2 years ago at, that time 'new balance' was the on the top of the list as the most ethical. i don't know were they stand now. things do change.
simpleshoes.com. im not sure what kind of running shoes they have, though. but they are a good company. also, you could try to find some still in good shape shoes from a goodwill or a store like that, so that your money isnt supporting that brand, but its supporting the charities from a second-hand-store.
I think all of them are rubber plastic nylon mass-produced things made in 3rd world factories. If they say made in the U.S. they probably just have shipped here put the shoelaces in and label them U.S. I was watching a show a while back about “green building” it was about energy effect buildings the Nike corporation was on there with a place in Seattle they were bragging it up as a monument to a better green world. They were so proud that they made running track 5 lanes instead of 6 to save a tree. What a bunch of posers.. I don’t know what to say about the running shoes I think they are all mass produced junk. I just buy New balance because it fit my foot. The collage students protest Nike where I live but you look at all the rest of the cloths they were and they are from Thailand, Indonesia, China, ect it is all cheap foreign labor. Reeboks probably just did a underground negative campaign against Nike and promoted sweatshop protests and people played into it.
