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I say that you only believe what you believe because of where you are born and your influences -- but I don't see that that must apply to me also.

That gets me vote for stupidest thing said on here. It is literally self-contradicting.

Someone here who can't ask a question without begging to have it deleted, asked about burials and I want to point out that the Catholic Church is very into this

Catholic Cemeteries Offering Eco-Friendly Option

February 15th, 2011

Catholic Cemeteries Offering Eco-Friendly Option

Green Burials Emerge as Growing Trend

By: Andrew P. Schafer, Executive Director, Catholic Cemeteries, Archdiocese of Newark

The term ‘Going Green’ has gained national attention over the past several years as natural, eco-friendly alternatives to everyday living have become more and more popular. Most people tend to believe that going green and protecting the environment apply only to those who are living; however, many are exploring the idea of going green in their final act: death. For those who want to leave the earth exactly as they found it, Catholic cemeteries across the nation have provided them with an eco-friendly option known as green burials.

Eliminating headstones, utilizing biodegradable caskets and replacing embalming fluid with organic, non-formaldehyde- based liquids are just some of reasons why the environmentally conscious have gravitated toward green burials. One noteworthy example of green burials can be found in Maryrest Cemetery in Bergen County, NJ. When the green burial section of Maryrest opened in the Fall of 2010, it became the first cemetery of any kind in the New York Metropolitan area and the first Catholic cemetery in New Jersey to provide green burials.

To cater to the wide-range of environmentally conscious people, Catholic cemeteries across the country offer different levels of “green” – ranging in degree of most eco-friendly to somewhat eco-friendly, each level providing various burial options to accommodate the desires of families:

Dark Green: Burial in a shroud, no casket, no embalming, no concrete vault, no headstone.

Middle Green: Burial in a biodegradable casket made from sustainably grown material, such as bamboo or simple pine; no embalming; no concrete vault around casket; deceased’s name engraved on one of the boulders at the site.

Light Green: Similar to "Middle Green," but embalming is allowed using organic, non-formaldehyde-based embalming liquids.

"The green burial movement is a new twist on something which had been done here since the early days of the country — wrapping people in a simple shroud and burying them in the ground," said Robert Prout of Prout Funeral Home in Verona. "This is just bringing us back to our roots."

But that is not the same as admitting that the US has in a couple instances (that they've admitted ) put in a Child Labor Law that worked no effect on employers but did cause children once employed to be shuffled off to Child Prostitution. This is undeniable now that I have investigated what someone else alleged.

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Here is then the great dilemma facing the child labor crisis. Campaigns against child labor in developing countries can definitely have unintended consequences of endangering children. When children lose their jobs in garment factories, for example, you can bet that they would necessarily go back to school. Oftentimes, they find more dangerous sources of income just to make a living. Indeed, according to Berlau (1997), child labor laws such as the Harkin’s bill could only work in countries with higher standards of living. After gathering evidences, scholars have come to the generalization that its easy for us Americans to label child labor as inhumane and debate against it; it’s easy for the U.S. to tell India or Pakistan to stop child labor “immediately, effectively, or else”; but it’s not easy to have considered the alternatives.

The Harkin’s bill when adopted against Bangladesh was monitored closely by UNICEF. Follow-up visits confirmed that the bill did free the 50,000 children from the garment factories, but it did not answer to the reality of poverty. Children were still trapped in a harsh environment with no skills, no access to education, and no economic alternatives. Thus, they went to new sources of income like street hustling, prostitution, stone-crushing, which are a lot more hazardous than their former job at the garment factory. Furthermore, more mothers quit their jobs to look for their children who have become unemployed, leading to a more impoverished state for families.