....I have really started looking at where the products I buy are produced. And if they are produced in China, I think twice about buying them.
I am not a fan of China. They have a different view of the value of human life than we do. They force women to have abortions if they violate the one child policy, sometimes even at eight or nine months gestation. Some years back the stories of "window babies" made our news - baby girls were left near the window of a home in the hopes that they would get sick and die, and the family would not have to waste their one opportunity to have a child on a (useless) girl. How many people do you know who have adopted boys from China? Doesn't happen much, if at all. But girls are just thrown away. I won't even go into to how badly people are treated in the workplace, much of which is just a slave labor situation.
Yet, I believe in the free market and free trade because ultimately it benefits everyone. People get jobs and consumers get the best value for their money. The free market works well because people make informed choices and producers who produce good products at a good price will flourish and people who produce junk will fail.
That needs to come into play now. We need to wake up and check who made what we buy, because China is making junk. Not only that, they are making junk that can kill us. It all boils down to valuing human life more than money. Or perhaps it is because we have difficulty suing producers in China who produce deadly products.
Read more at Bob Lonsberry's blog. (Click on the title.)
And be careful about buying Chinese junk.
---Katie
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