Putting Your Money Where the Lead is….
Well, China has done it again. It has gone and betrayed consumers worldwide with their practice of subcontracting to companies that have no qualms using inferior products, such as lead-tained paint.
I looked at Mattel’s product list of toys they are pulling off the shelves (explore the Mattel site, there are more product lists of recalled toys) and I was saddened that these joyfully innocent and playful toys harbored this harmful substance. Really, it was the innocence of them that almost brought me to tears. While I searched my mind if my own children had held any of those little figures in their hands - almost impossible, if not in our house, then at play group or friends’ houses - I was struck how treacherous childhood is, and always was, of course, except these days we are so much more aware…
Besides the emotional, ruffled Mama-Bear protective side of the issue that anyone can relate to, there is also the political side of this matter the outrageousness of which has so far been largely swept under the rug.
Read this article in Slate and see if it gets your blood boiling like it did mine. And ask yourself, where are our elected officials when they are not rubbing cops’ ankles in public restrooms or ordering Madame services to get their buttocks slapped at a thousand dollars a pop.
