A Rant

How many recalls regarding baby-killing products do I need to hear about before I get it through my thick skull? DO NOT BUY PRODUCTS FROM CHINA. Sure I have put back a delicious looking salmon fillet because it had a "Product of China" sticker on the front. And I spent a few days last fall checking my baby toys for the lead recall and I have even gone as far as replacing my brand of curry seasoning with a non-Chinese import. But all of these had labeling that was basically shoved into my sight before I noticed they were from China.
As a teenager I swore I would boycott Chinese goods until they had some semblance of a human rights policy that they actually followed.
Last year there was a massive toy recall on toys imported from China and I promised myself then that I would check toys that I buy to confirm they were not manufactured in China.
Even this year, just a few months ago, I again told myself that I should boycott Chinese products based on their invasion of Tibet!
But I have yet to do it. I am weak, lazy and forgetful. In my mind I get upset and I remind myself of all the evils of China and I always think, "I should try hard to boycott 'Made in China' products." But I lack the follow-through.
Well, no more. The poison candy that is being sold in my Americas has done it for me. China cares nothing for the safety of its own innocent babies and children across the world. They continually send deadly chemicals into the mouths and bodies of children in their own lands and across the globe. Chinese officials have allowed melamine-poisoned formula to be fed to newborns in their hospitals and several babies died as a result. Government officials knew for months that there was a deadly toxin the formula and yet nothing was done until the New Zealand company with a large percentage of ownership in the formula company finally forced a public recall. (1.)

So join me, please. Help me to use our power as consumers to make the officials of China listen to the people. Not only will we not allow them to poison our pets, our children and ourselves, but we will not support a government that knowingly poisons its own infants. We will not use our American dollars to fund a government that invades a peaceful country like Tibet and oppress its people, jail their dissidents and brutalize innocents. We will no longer allow our money to be sent to a government that acknowledges and allows the infanticide of hundreds of thousands of female babies. BOYCOTT CHINA

For more information on how to boycott China please click the links below.



No More China
A fruitless quest to Boycott China
Why Boycott China?
Friends of Tibet
How One Family Came to Boycott China

(1.) NYTimes Article