I'm sort of cusious as to why everyone is blaming the Chinese companies instead of the AMERICAN companies who contract with them? I worked for an American manufacturing company who was very insistent that any products made in China pass the same quality standards as products made here. I mean, these companies go over there, pay workers $2 a day to make goods that they'd pay an American worker 5 or 10 times that much PER HOUR. So, they're saving a ton of money, yet they don't examine the quality of the goods they purchase and put their names on?
It's completely irresponsible, and for us as consumers to blame the Chinese companies is even more ridiculous. Their country doesn't have the same laws or the same standards as we do - our companies know exactly what those standards are %26 chose to ignore them. Why are we not instead boycotting companies who outsource irresponsibly? Stop buying Barbie for your kids - stop buying dog food outsourced to Menu foods, THAT will stop the problem
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Absolutely.
Importing from any company must be done carefully and the importer is ultamatly responsible for the required standards. I would like to see evidence that these companies were advised to reach standards imposed by US law.
The behavior of the US companies involved must be checked also.
The problem now is we've outsourced so hard for the last 12 years that it is nearly impossible to find a product made in the USA and re-tooling US manufacturing would take time.
I'm all for US made products making a comeback but our society is too impatient to wait.
The only way to solve the problem is if Americans would be willing to make the products here for $2-3/hr. There are NO alternatives on the shelves. I can't find any apple juice in my local grocery store NOT made in China!
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