Product Chains

Most everyone has been concerned with the food chain. Outbreaks of food poisoning the last few years have been traced back to contaminated water used in spinach and other greens that have been sent to the nation's supermarkets. Dogs and cats were not immune when their foods were causing sickness and death. But it is ironic that our consolidation of production and removal of local manufacturing and control has not infected the most vulnerable of our society: our children. Mattel can not keep up with the defective merchandise that they are sending to the toy aisles. Instead of quality built American toys, the famous product lines such as Fisher-Price, Barbie, and Thomas are being outsourced to China in the name of efficiency and cheapness. China is basically where Japan was in the early 1960's; Out to make quick bucks in the least restrictive manner. Now our children are paying the price. How many toddlers have licked lead off their presents and swallowed small magnets that should not be used. Consumers must do something and do it soon. The current Bush government will only drag its feet over these matters. Salad eaters, lovable pets, and precious little ones are victims in a mad rush for the bottom line so that cut rate stores such as Wal-Mart and Toys R Us, can sell in such large quantities as to make profits on a thin margin. Americans are losing jobs and now people and animals to the new world economy.