Corporate Greed Endangers US Children – The Never Ending Story

Another recall, another story of US corporations putting US citizens at risk to make a few bucks. Target just announced the recall of hundreds of thousands of gardening toys. Obviously these products were made in China. I think we see a pattern. US corporations knowingly commissioning the production of products, in places where US style regulations do not exist or are unenforceable, destined for the US market. Children’s toys are the current products. Tires that fly apart while driving down the expressway, dog food that poisons dogs, and foods for human consumption laced with poisonous hormones and fertilizers.

Surely we will see a remorseful CEO tell of how he did not know. He will go on national television and tell that his company found the illegal toys due to Target’s commitment to quality and service. We will believe him. Just like we believed Disney and Mattel. These products have been on the market for years. They have been poisoning our kids ever since they figured out that they could produce goods in places where labor was cheap and people are more concerned about survival than health or safety hazards. We had this attitude in the US well into WWII. Just think of how many men died building the Empire State Building and the Hoover Dam. Perhaps the falling testing scores of our youth should be researched in level of the lead in their blood and the residual brain damage and not in the scholastic system.

Some of you are old enough to remember what Made in Japan, Made in Taiwan and Made in Singapore meant. Made in China is the same thing. Poor Quality, faulty controls and illegal production processes are synonyms of Made in China. As our politicians have so aptly stated, “Buyer Beware, Purchase at your own Peril!”

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