Buy Nothing Chinese

[talon]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66809G20100709 - they are reselling the tainted milk powder that got them in trouble in 2008. What? Did they think we'd forget? 300,000 children were sickened by this milk powder, several died. And they're selling it again - the exact same powder that was supposedly destroyed in 2008 was warehoused instead.

No pine nuts, no milk powder, nothing. Buy nothing Chinese. Check to see if it was made in any Chinese province. Definitely don't buy any food that comes from China.

I was just going to let it slide and just stop buying Chinese quietly, the way I do other things I don't like, but this was a deliberate "wait and do it again" thing -they knew this milk powder was tainted, and they tried selling it again. That means boycott - loud and public and widespread.

I don't know if it's possible to shame them into better quality control, but it's worth the attempt. And in the process, we buy nothing Chinese so we don't sicken from it, and our children don't die of it. Whether it's gypsum wall boards or milk powder, whether it's silk or pine nuts, it doesn't matter.

It's not yet conclusively proven, but China is the suspect in selling tainted pine nuts - passing inedible pine nuts off as edible ones. While the inedible pine nuts won't kill a person, they will kill the mouth bacteria that allows you taste buds to taste food, making all food taste bitter and metallic.

Add this all together with other information of tainted or toxic products from China being sold as safe and we have to do something. Governments have to negotiate and wibble over things and test and offer up proof. We the people can look at the information that people are sickening and dying from Chinese products and say "Enough! We will buy no more until this is fixed and we trust you again."

Ultimately, we are responsible for our own safety. Not governments. Not businesses. Us. We use the power of our collective pockets to say "We won't buy bad products. We won't buy toxic products. We suspect yours are bad/toxic and we won't buy from you. You can fix the problem or go out of business. We will buy from someone trustworthy or do without or make it ourselves."

And remember - there is no business in the entire world that's too big to fail. Any business that begins to think that probably deserves to fail. And yanno, I'm thinking that applies to countries, too. There is no country so powerful and big that it's "too big to fail". This is because, in the end, businesses and countries are not independent entities but are composed of people - and people, singly and in groups, make mistakes, make bad decisions, and size is pretty irrelevant when you know it all comes down to the component parts.

For your safety, for your happiness, for your long and prosperous life - avoid Chinese imports - from food to drywall and beyond.

Buy nothing Chinese.