What can we do to protect ourselves from poisonous foreign products?

Question

Now that Globilization has hit our cupboards, our pet supplies, our children's toys, we are learning that the loss of American industry and merchandising to other countries is not such a good thing. Many of our dogs have been killed or sickened, our food supply is frequently unsafe, and now we learn that our children are being poisoned by doses of lead in painted toys? What other horror awaits us"

The government is supposedly studying the problem and China, the main culprit, is promising to be more vigilant, but in the meantime, we depend upon merchants to remove faulty products from their shelves and sometimes this just isn't done.

What can we do, other than write our Congressmen, to assure the safety of food products and other essentials. Since hardly anything is Made in America, are our laws useless? Are we at the mercy of these careless countries with no regulations of their own?

Answer 1

Heck, how many people are getting sick from American made products?  How many hamburger recalls in the last 2 weeks?

Answer 2

Ask Clinton and Gore, they pushed the free trade agreements with China. Those darlings of the left who are now worried about the lead paint. Serves them right.

Answer 3

Buy local as much as possible for food.  It is more sustainable in the long run as well and will even save you on petroleum consumption.

Also just buy American period.

Answer 4

Shop responsible .. Watch labels and don't buy Made In China!

Answer 5

Congress could rework consumer protection laws to make coperations more accountable for harming the public health.   When a productline produces millions of items which have 16 X the allowed amount of lead, it's because no one bothered checking.  If companies get slammed with enormous fines for exposing the public to such products, they will take Quality Control a bit more seriousely.

Answer 6

Items from American companies aren't that much better,, too much deregulation for that. Just take a look at our meat industry. My suggestion is to replace all current incumbents in both houses, because it is they who signed off on laws that let companies manufacture in other countries where it is cheaper and not regualted what so ever.

Answer 7

Hello!

Don't buy the products.

Check out the information on the packaging .

Cook for your dog .

Instead of a lot of toys which kids discard so easily today get them interested in reading or fresh air activity.

Growing things which they can eat ,playing as they used to years ago,the old back yard game of cricket ,football,hide and seek which created a lot of laughter and healthy kids. .

You didn't hear kids complaining they were bored in those days.

Keep life simple toys are not the be all and end all of things.

These are the things we can do to help our selves.

Take care!

Answer 8

be a patriot and only use american made poisons

Answer 9

buy American whenever possible...and always do without the cheap foreign cr*p