Game: products of slavery

I know, slavery doesn't seem like a very suitable topic for something as frivolous as a game...but who said games have to be frivolous?
I aim to shock my students into realising that when it comes to consumerism, "winning" for half the world often means "losing" for the other half.  We may have the best clothes, coolest phones and highest rated status symbols that make us the envy of our friends...but at what cost to those who manufacture them?

1. Send students to visit http://www.productsofslavery.org/.  Each student is assigned one product to look at.  They copy onto cards only the information containing examples of the passive voice, for example
  "During the rainy season from January to March in Ecuador, children working in gold mines are cut off from services such as schools and the conditions in the community become even more isolated."  
(That's just because that's the focus of my grammar lesson, but if you're not doing that, you can just have them write down the most shocking information)

2.  The next day they play the game

• They play in groups of 3-4 with a board of ten squares (draw a snake and chop it up into 10 pieces). 
• They each have $200 to start and the aim is to tend the game with as little money as possible.  The winner is the one who has spent all $200 or who has the smallest amount left.
• As they land on each square, they pick a card from the "product" pile.  They may choose to buy or not to buy it, they may choose to ask for information about it or not (if they want information, they look at the corresponding card in the "information" pile).

Shock: The winner will obviously be the one who has bought the greatest amount of unethically produced products.  Have the students journal their thoughts about that.