Brazilian hardwood floors. Slave labor?

Kermit Johnson, of http://www.realestatetwincities.net/blog/, has done a great post about this. Here’s a quote from his first paragraph. I recommend you read the rest on his blog, at the above url.

Do you have Brazilian teakwood floors in your luxury home? How about Brazilian cherry cabinets? Any Brazilian mahogany items? Well, I certainly hope you are enjoying them. They might have come to you at a huge cost… well beyond what you paid for them.

There is a good chance that that those exotic hardwoods were harvested by slave labor. Perhaps they were even harvested by child slave labor. But the cost for these materials goes even beyond its toll on slaves or your pocketbook. On average, your Brazilian teakwood floor eliminated 7.5 acres of irreplaceable Amazonian rain forest. But Brazilian hardwood floors look great.
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To be fair, you might be unaware of how these materials are obtained. Most people are.
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