Community | April 14, 2009 | 15 comments

Toxic Chinese Products Continue To Sicken Americans

source: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/14/Is-Drywall-the-Next-Chinese-Im...

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darkhorsejim
Buyers beware! Made in China may as well translate into Made you Sick, if you're lucky, & not dead. With too many recalled Chinese products wreaking havoc across the nation - here we go again. Now it's toxic drywall used in the construction & repair of thousands of homes & businesses to blame for continued health & structural woes. The fallout from China's explosive economy continues to haunt unsuspecting American families who may have no idea that their health is in grave jeopardy. It's a good thing our gov't is looking out for our well-being or we'd really be in trouble.
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15 comments // Toxic Chinese Products Continue To Sicken Americans

  • gnossos
  • SeaJade
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    • The Alternative Building Expos are a great way to learn about non toxic and sustainable building materials. This one is in Santa Monica, California on May 8 and 9. You can probably find them in other major cities by googling "Alternative Building Expos" along with the appropriate city...

    • 2 years ago
  • SeaJade
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    • Many of the companies that are manufacturing toxic products are the same companies that left the U.S. so they could produce their products cheaply without the hinderance of environmental standards... We must stop supporting those companies and buying their products... Yes, that means less stuff but better quality. The Chinese people have the same battles we do - that is, there are people there that are also trying to save the environment but the power of the multinational military/industrial complex at this time in our history has a louder voice - the same group own most of the mainstream media...

      The link above takes you to a twenty minute film - title is self explanatory:

      "From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever."

    • 2 years ago
  • darkhorsejim
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    • SeaJade:

      Great Post! I love the video you have so wisely incorporated into your analysis. You’re right, after seeing it last year, I definitely have a greater understanding of STUFF, people’s insatiable desire for MORE & the unfortunate environmental toll.

      Thankfully, I’ve always been a minimalist, never feeling comfortable having to take care of a lot of stuff that ends up owning me. Yes, even before George Carlin’s bit on “stuff”, which is a classic & good for a laugh that we could all use these days.

      Now, if we could only dismantle the Military-Industrial Complex while focusing more on sustainable everything, we’d be heading in the right direction as a society. Peace.

    • 2 years ago
  • neonbunny
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    • This country has always needed a quality system. A-B-C-D-E.
      E lasts one week but is cheap. A is top quality.

      But we've had people who made fortunes, shipping our wealth over to China.

      And they have brought the "Trickle Down" philosophy of squeeze and abuse your own customer-base with abandon, - trickled to most businesses in America.
      Instead of 'produce the best products possible and be spanky proud', it's 'rip-off those chumps til it hurts, skim the profits off-shore and go play golf'

      Sorry, but THEY need regulation. -For our country.

      I'd like to see some prosecutions. They arranged the government as a tool for their interests and against the interests of our people.

      IF - they knew how to manage our affairs, it wouldn't have brought us this financial calamity.

      But they are pedestrian thinkers whose whole idea has been "The bottom line"
      However the real central value for money and wealth creation has a nature of reciprocity.

      Your customer-base has to have money to give to you. It cannot be a one way street. The entire flaw with supply-side.

    • 2 years ago
  • neonbunny
  • masterzip
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    • What has happened is the Chinese have a surplus of toxic chemicals that they do not know what to do with,..so they do dump them into every product they could knowing that our government inspects less than 1% of imports coming into America.....that is what our taxes pay for,..or used to pay for. You are foolish to believe anything coming form China is safe, the most polluted country on the planet.

    • 2 years ago
  • pjacobs51
  • Rollin7s
  • lifeiscurious
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    • How upsetting this must be for all the owners of the contaminated homes. And it adds insult to injury for anyone who used the wallboard to make repairs after a natural disaster. I suspect someone is benefiting financially by allowing this to continue...and it's not just the Chinese. Who is responsible for overseeing these imported construction products?

    • 2 years ago
  • wirehedd
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    • Is it me or are the Chinese simply dumping excess pollutants into just about every product the export?

      I won't let my kids get toys imported from China anymore and from now on will avoid pretty much anything they export. The baby formula scandal really brought this to light but, wow, poisonous houses now too.

      Time to shut off their garbage pipeline until there's a way to check everything they export for toxicity. Until then they can keep it all.

    • 2 years ago
  • darkhorsejim
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    • wirehedd:

      t was the pet food fiasco that poisoned hundreds of pets across the country for me to really start paying closer attention to the origin of products - particularly the ones consumed. Supposedly the Chinese owners of that company were executed for knowing about the contamination as they sold the products worldwide.

    • 2 years ago
  • darkhorsejim
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