It's time for a boycott. Mattel is out there again recalling hundreds of thousands of toys poisoned with lead paint. I have discovered a phone number and an email address (which was NOT easy) and I encourage you to follow my example and call and email your thoughts on Chinese manufacturing.
Mattel Corporate Communications 310-252-4705
corporate.communications@mattel.com
Please contact them to let them know we will not be buying any toys or products made by Mattel until they move their manufacturing to a country that cares whether or not they are poisoning our children.
Here is the gigantic list of recalled toys CLICK HERE
This is getting ridiculous. The president of Matell has a video HERE "assuring" parents that they are comitted to the safety of their products. HA! If they are that committed, they will get the hell OUT of China.
Mattel's committment to safety means nothing when there are 19 million poisoned toys in the mouths of infants right now. There's a very simple solution to their problem. MOVE the manufacturing to Vietnam, Japan, India...ANYWHERE other than China. There are needy people everywhere who could benefit from jobs. Why are we so stuck in China?
Mattel Corporate Communications 310-252-4705
corporate.communications@mattel.com
Please contact them to let them know we will not be buying any toys or products made by Mattel until they move their manufacturing to a country that cares whether or not they are poisoning our children.
Here is the gigantic list of recalled toys CLICK HERE
This is getting ridiculous. The president of Matell has a video HERE "assuring" parents that they are comitted to the safety of their products. HA! If they are that committed, they will get the hell OUT of China.
Mattel's committment to safety means nothing when there are 19 million poisoned toys in the mouths of infants right now. There's a very simple solution to their problem. MOVE the manufacturing to Vietnam, Japan, India...ANYWHERE other than China. There are needy people everywhere who could benefit from jobs. Why are we so stuck in China?
3 comments:
Capitalism is competition and right now China is playing hardball. Just like the Japanese took over the auto market in the 70s, the Chinese are taking over the consumer products market now. Inevitably there will be some backlash. Just like people used to smash Japanese cars on the streets, there will be people who cry foul against China. But given the fact that about 80% of consumer goods sold in the US are now being made in China (and have been for about 10 or 15 years), good luck finding alternatives.
Whining about production standards aren't going to help the US situation, especially if our own companies continue to import substandard goods without checking their quality. Who is more responsible for the lead in my toothpaste? The quality manager in the developing country getting paid $13/hr or the retailer that ordered it, imported it and sold it to me?
Your suggestion to move production to other countries will accomplish little. Do you think the Vietnamese and Indians are simply so much better at manufacturing that they won't have quality problems? If these quality problems are deliberate do you think those countries are so much friendlier to the US consumer? That's even ignoring the actual cost of plunking down a new factory somewhere...
And moving production to JAPAN as an alternative suggests that you have no idea about the state of the world economy. Japan happens to be the most advanced and consequently most expensive place in the world to manufacture anything these days. It would be cheaper building toothbrush factories in Switzerland.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not an apologist for substandard products or for globalism. But it's time to wake up. The US has not been economically self-sufficient for at least 100 years and it is unlikely that it ever will be again. Some would even argue that the immense European influence over the US banking system since immediately after the war of independence has meant that the US has been manipulated by foreign powers from day one. If Americans are serious about their autonomy, their independence, and their way of life, they need to stop dishing blame onto foreign countries and start holding their own retailers and corporations responsible. They need to start producing staple products competitively, and take back control of not only the staples of economic production but also their out-of-control personal and national debt.
Of course, this is unlikely to happen. So today it's dishonest Chinese and their poison toothpaste, tomorrow it's the sneaky Serbians and their leaky space-station parts. Unless the US shores up its manufacturing base, there will be no end to it.
Chinese Proverb:
guà yáng tóu mài gôu ròu
Hang up sheep head, sell dog meat.
in response to holding the retailers accountable...I believe that's what we would be doing if we stop buying their crappy products. And maybe getting out of China won't help...but I'm willing to give it a try.
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