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If you were to pick out a point that *I* feel hypocritical on, it would be this one.  I go to Wal-Mart and buy the best product for the money, not worrying about the workers' conditions.

I also go to restaurants and eat steaks and bacon from animals that were kept who knows where, buy eggs maybe from a chicken kept in a 12" cage.

I (as most Americans) have a very short attention span.  It's possible to get through to me if you laser-focus hard enough, but it takes a lot to call the nation's attention to "free-range eggs."  Maybe some of this media time devoted to Bill's and Donald's girlfriends ought to be replaced with some serious human (animal) rights airtime.

There has been some attention going to Saudi Arabia's contributions for the Clintons, who espouse women's rights, but that's been political.

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That said, if we were President I suspect we'd find out that trade was an important carrot-and-stick device in our arsenal to PROTECT human rights.

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