Fast fashion and the ethics of low cost labor. Questions attached please answer

.III Xfinity Mobile :3 9:24 AM 1 11% E} E onlinewarneredu WW Auret van Heerden, CEO of the Fair Labor Association, argues, \"The manufacturing industry is running out of low- cost sourcing destinations, and it's time to invest in making factories safer and better, rather than searching for cheaper labor." - Hopscotching throughout the developing world looking for the lowest labor costs ultimately threatens brands' reputations. Even Helena Helmersson, head of sustainability for H&M, seems to agree. She told The Observer, \"Remember that H&M does not own any factories itself. We are to some extent dependent on the suppliersit is impossible to be in full control.\" - Sourcing practices have exposed sharp contrasts between fast- fashion and luxury designers and exposed hypocrisy among critics. Italian designer Miuccia Prada, who also holds a PhD in political science, told Women is Wear Deibz, \"People who are intellectual leftists, they say I am expensive and horrible, 'How can you sell clothes at that price?' Simply, it's the cost. If you pay people to do everything with the right system, things are expensive. And the same people who criticize the dangerous production environments, when it comes to cost, they like the inexpensive pieces because they think it's more democratic.\" So, who is ethically responsible? Questions - Do you agree with the EU's threat to use trade agreements as a weapon in the ght against low-cost subcontracting? If governments were to regulate the number of subcontractors that can be involved in the production of a product, do you believe businesses that outsource their work would be more prone to respond ethically to catastrophes and to working conditions in general? . If a brand explicitly forbids a vendor from subcontracting, but the vendor subcontracts anyway, which company bears the responsibility for any tragedy that ensues? In other words, who is ethically responsible for events like Tazreen Fashion factory re and the New Wave Style building collapse, both in Bangladesh? - What level of ethical responsibility does the end consumer of fast-fashion apparel bear for those tragedies