Topic: Burkina Faso

Victoria's Secret: Its Cotton Is Picked by African Children

Bloomberg

Whatever precious sexual norms Victoria's Secret's skimpy underwear violates doesn't compare to the fact that the lingerie maker uses cotton picked by child laborers in Burkina Faso.

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