A speaker raised in Winston-Salem, where Hanes is headquartered, reflects on how consumers care more about chicken welfare than garment worker conditions. He worked at The Gap and knew someone whose mother supervised a Hanes factory, showing how supply chains were once personal but now feel distant and abstract.
You know, you think about ethics. You know, I think that in so many ways we're, we're so disconnected from the people who are making, you know, who are making things. I mean, I read a quote one time that we care more about the conditions of our chicken, of the chickens, of the eggs that we eat than we do about the conditions of the people who made what we're wearing. And, you know, there used to be a time— I'm from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where Hanes is based. And I worked at The Gap, and my friend's mom was one of the supervisors at the Hanes factory, and we sold the socks there. You know, so you, you could see it. It was tangible. You knew somebody. And now
