tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473201909843404182025-03-01T23:07:49.623-08:00In a world full of greed and lies, it seems like everybody is trying to sell you something! Keep your feet planted firmly on the ground, and make critical, logical thinking your first line of defense.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1613tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647320190984340418.post-48875205566594787212007-10-27T03:03:00.000-07:002007-10-27T03:40:50.936-07:00I happen to think that mankind was never intended to eat refined sugar, and that sugar is probably the single most harmful thing that we shove into our bodies. But let's put that aside for now.<br /><br />And the child psychology of Halloween is "Gee, it's a wonderful treat to run around and collect tons of sugar and junk food". Sugar and junk food is good, it's a reward, it's a treat, it's special!<br /><br />The psychology of this annual event, imprinted on vulnerable children, damages them for the rest of their lives, but it enormously enriches many corporations. But let's put that aside too.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topofthehour.aspx?StoryId=84850">Kids in the Philippines have been made ill</a> by candies from China, and in the context of hundreds of defective toy recalls, perhaps parents should keep an eye on what candies the kids are eating this year.<br /><br />Perhaps the danger is very slight. But is it zero? Suppose a bag of candy is labeled as coming from, say, Mexico. Good. But does that mean that the factory in Mexico doesn't import drums of sweetener syrup from China. And we know that China has used antifreeze to make their syrups go a little farther. Kind of like a heroin dealer cuts his product with something cheaper before it hits the streets.<br /><br />If the product doesn't say, "Made in China", can we be sure that the product doesn't contain one or more ingredients from China?<br /><br />Caveat emptor, folks.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647320190984340418.post-59708761273739147372007-09-22T05:13:00.000-07:002007-09-22T05:19:28.379-07:00American companies have invested heavily in China, and told their workers at home to get lost. Now China is starting to call the tune. <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/21/news/international/bc.china.taintedproducts.ap/index.htm?eref=rss_topstories">Mattel apologized profusely to China</a> for causing bad publicity with the recent recall.<br /><br />No word yet over whether China apologized for making toys that are dangerous to American children.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647320190984340418.post-63912412048896756192007-09-04T18:33:00.000-07:002007-09-04T18:58:55.838-07:00Yet another <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/04/news/companies/mattel_recall.ap/index.htm?eref=rss_topstories">recall for Mattel</a>. Third one. The bankers will be crying in their martinis. Looks good on them. They sold out their own country for the cheap labor of China, and now it's biting them in the ass. That's justice; still, it doesn't make up for all the thousands of lost jobs.<br /><br />But there's an even more serious question. Are these news items just the tip of the iceberg? When you use a hair spray, what chemicals are in there, courtesy of China, and are now floating around for you to breathe in? You can't tell from the label, can you? You can only read what's <span style="font-style: italic;">supposed</span> to be in there. And you can't tell where the ingredients came from--in other words, how likely is it that the ingredients really are what they say they are.<br /><br />How big is the iceberg, below the waterline? When you eat a can of soup, is there anything in there that came from China? How about when you paint a room in your house?<br /><br />When will the next story break? How many stories are being covered up?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0