This is interesting and disturbing. In 2015, in our day-to-day Northern Colorado lives, rarely do with think about slavery unless it's in our history books. However, whether we know it or not, slaves are still working for us every day, and my number definitely shocked me. 

http://slaveryfootprint.org/
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I try to be a conscious consumer, but it's hard when most products in the United States are imported from other countries; ones with little or no labor laws, unsafe working conditions and, worst of all, slave labor.

Everything from the coffee we drink to the shoes that we wear to what's in our medicine cabinet can link us to 21st century slavery. I recently used slaveryfootprint.org to find out what the true cost of my lifestyle is.

I have 32 slaves. How many do you have? Find out your slavery footprint here.

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