37.8% of American will be buying flowers this year for Valentine’s Day...spending more than $2.1 billion...an average of 60% of those flower sales will most likely be for roses. But...if you buy them from the wrong vendor, your roses could be promoting poor working conditions and child labor...According to an IB Times report from 2012, 90% of the flowers ..are imported, mainly from Colombia and Ecuador... It was estimated that 8.3% of the flowers in the US were cut by child labor in Ecuador...There’s a great deal of exploitation of the adults who cut these flowers, too. Workers are pushed to complete 20 hour days at 250 to 300 stems per hour, according to an International Labor Rights Forum report. In addition to the back-breaking (and hand-breaking) labor, they must work in close proximity with pesticides containing carcinogens and toxins.