What's Your Slavery Footprint? You might be surprised by how
some of your things are actually made. By Lauren N. Williams AS
AN URBANITE who chooses to ride the subway rather than drive my
car, I've long been concerned about my carbon footprint. Little
did I know that slavery, something I thought had been relegated
to the history books, has a living footprint all its own. Thanks
to a new website, I've discovered that some 35 forced laborers
worldwide likely had a hand in producing the contents of my
apartment. Those chilling statistics come courtesy of
slaveryfootprint.org, developed by entrepreneur Justin Dillon
with backing from the U.S. State Department. "With up to 27
million slaves in the world, and many working in mining and
agriculture, they're touching a lot of the goods that we use,"
says Alison Kiehl Friedman, deputy director at the U.S.
Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking
in Persons. Dillon explains the way the site works: Feed it
information about your lifestyle and "an