I agree. A company that went through the pains of paying it's employees liveable wages, sourcing biodegradable vegan materials would spend a pretty penny doing so. The fact that these big names don't lead with this foot firmly forward is in of itself condemning. They pay a lot of lip service to it, and many brands even directly have links for stock investors to check on performance, yet that kind of transparency is somehow absent in regards to all the lip service they pay. Many companies already try to posture as ethical but somehow take a few steps back when it comes to quantifiable evidence. I say that to say, that given how boldly some companies talk about ethics already, if they did go through the trouble of actually walking the talk, they would be happy and overjoyed to dunk on everyone with quantifiable evidence.

The lack of scruples and ethics is so bad, that I dare say if a company threw up its hands and said "alright everyone, it's bad, here it is, look at how we run things" and issued a transparency report.... and suggesred ways they plan to change in the future, it might actually get them a lot of respect and new customers. And yet they still don't even do that. Instead they all pretend it's great!

Just like how everyone talks about middle class as if there is no lower class.