Posted on 06/29/2007 6:17:14 PM PDT by Flavius
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Poisoned pet food. Seafood laced with potentially dangerous antibiotics. Toothpaste tainted with an ingredient in antifreeze. Tires missing a key safety component. U.S. shoppers may be forgiven if they are becoming leery of Chinese-made goods and are trying to fill their shopping carts with products free of ingredients from that country. The trouble is, that may be almost impossibl
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everyone man the lifeboats
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Going nowhere.
You’re right. A trip to WalMart today proved that finding chew bones or treats for your dog that ARE NOT made in China is like searching for an honest politician in New Orleans.
It’s bad enough that my 9lb maltepoo is a picky eater( I cook for him, so dog food isn’t a factor) but even when I can find teeny-tiny treats saying they are from Canada, looking around the packaging proves they originated in China.
Not buying any food items from there- nope- not gonna do it!
From Walmart I buy
CANINE CARRY OUTS (beef flavor) The package say they are MANUFACTURED BY
Del Monte Pet Products
Division of Del Monte Foods
1075 Progress Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15212 USA
2004 Del Monte Foods
They are about 1-1/2" x 1/2" My little Yorkie and Shitsu were getting fat on them so I called the phone number on the package 1-800-252-7022 and asked how many calories were in each one. I was told 25 Cal. I was giving them 4 each and for a Yorkie that was about all the Cal. they should have all day. So I cut each one in 4 pieces now.
I have no idea if any of the ingredients come from China, but they seem to be fine and I have been giving the Carry Outs to them for a long time now.
I recently went shopping for a steam iron, only to find that almost all such appliences are now made in China. Only one brand (Oreck) is made in the US, and it costs more than $100. However, I finally found one (Rowenta) that is made in Germany.
If you are in the market for a vacuum cleaaner, you will also find that most are made in China—even Hoover, which was, until recently, made in the US.
everyone man the lifeboats
They are made in china too!!!
i sure hope the chinese will build our military equipment for us when we go to war with them
oh wait
Champion Breed mini biscuits at KMart. They said Made in the USA.
LoL
I live so rural that I am a catalog person and those folks have caught on to the anti China products.
Use to read Made in China, Made in Indonesia now the in the item description and price in just says “imported”.
Resin items IMO = Made in China.
I quit buying resin items a long time ago because I hate resin.
To cheap looking and so far as outside statues/garden stuff it does not hold up one year hear on the stormy coast.
Pretty soon, what with Al Goron’s source of income, Internet will be made in China!
Dude, Royal Dansk cookies are made in Indonesia or Guatemala thse days!
We want to be able to buy $300 TV sets and throw them out when they break after 18 months. we want to buy Hanes undershirts in packs of 5 for $10 and throw them out when they get dirty. $40 sneakers that go in the trash after 6 months.
We want to throw everything away!
Meanwhile, manufacturing and textiles have relocated to China where they can feed our insatiable appetite for disposable goods.
Why should we be surprised that we are buying junk?
We really need to look in the mirror before we point fingers.
Dunno about you, but my $300 TV set is 10 years old.
Well, Rn'R, you're more frugal than most. I'm still getting a good picture from my 4+ year old Samsung.
But when it breaks (and it will) it will cost more to repair it than to replace it. You can bet it will be in the dumpster.
I'm guilty. I've thrown away two PCs. Why keep them around? Who wants them?
I'm in the navy and go through black socks and white t-shirts like crazy! Every few weeks I replace them. Like most Americans, I like the fact that I can buy a six-pack of socks for about the same price as a pack of cigarettes.
Remember when people used to mend their socks?
Protectionists! Anti-free trade!
(Just kidding -- though some might not be forgiving.)
Thanks to you and Spunky for the suggestions, but our Wal Mart is constantly out of lots of merchandise. Since Katrina they just don’t restock well.
Even if I’d seen the brands you mentioned, my ‘designer dog’ won’t eat a biscuit of any kind. It has to be very small, like those pencil sized rawhide sticks. He won’t even eat the marrowbones or dried real meat jerky.
Now, he had NO problem eating several of my shoes- but hard biscuits and too-big treats are unacceptable.
Fussiest eater I’ve ever had. And I thought my Shelties were persnickety!
I bought a saw blade the other day. Sitting next to it was a two-pack for $1 more that the salesman pointed out to me. I looked and it said Made in China. I told him I’d rather pay more for an American product (Vermont American Blades or something). He was old enough so he just nodded his head in agreement rather than giving me some goofy look.
It sure is hard to find American stuff though.
Kmart, not Wal-Mart.
Ever since the Chinese murdered my dog, have been anti-China big time and I tell everyone I meet, even if i bore them to death.
Tagline says it all.
I would do the same. I tell people about Chinese products every chance I get.
Why aren’t you donating those PCs????? To a school, a church, a youth group, a shelter, a volunteer organization? There are many groups that take donated PCs, they have volunteers that will get them working, at the very least for games, workforce reentry programs, homework, recordkeeping etc.
I can’t say I throw much of anything away. Donate, sell, reuse, recycle. We compost, we give away and we recycle (even furniture...you oughta see the 4th hand china cabinet my stepdaughter just abandoned after I got done with paint, crackle glaze and new knobs!). I’ve lost count of how many things I’ve just set outside with a ‘Free’ sign on it - chairs, coffee table, filing cabinet, lamps, headboard, bedframe, you name it. I’ve never had to go out that evening and bring it back in.
“Unfortunately in the case of foods and drugs, there’s a safety issue on top of the quality issue,” Hubbard said. “If the toaster doesn’t work you just take it back to Wal-Mart and they give you another one. But if the food is unsafe, that’s a different matter.”
That’s comforting, by the time the house burns down, you’ll probably be working on fourth toaster.
That’s BS; if the store doesn’t have it, you can’t buy it.
About five years ago, my neighbor had bought two new trash cans and decided to just throw away the old ones so he took two sheets of paper and taped them to the cans after writing PLEASE TAKE OLD CAN on each.
This went on for four weeks even after calling the city and explaining he didn’t need the old cans.
They finally told him to cut them up and put them in his new cans with that weeks trash.
When he got home from work that evening he almost collapsed on the ground in laughter when he discovered that his new cans, full of trash that morning, were now nowhere to be seen.
Better check to see if you are breaking the law. Most places are treating TVs and computers as hazardous waste these days.
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That’s a funny story :)
Not just the Liberals. Who granted China 'most favored nation' status?
Found another article today.
Nobody I know does any of that!
Disregard my earlier reply. I thought you were lumping all Americans in with yourself and you were just talking about yourself. Sorry for the mistake.
Me, too. I'd especially mention the product and the vet's comments on my page.
It made me want to open a toaster factory. The cost differential cannot be so great that a small manufacturer could not capitalize on the “anywhere but China” shoppers like me. If China can make a toaster for $10, I should think we could make one for $15 or $20. I and many like me would pay the extra $10 just to avoid the “made in China” label.
The last thing I can remember buying that was actually made in the USA was my Weber “Little Joe” grill. I wonder if they are still made here? (Disclaimer - I quit looking at manufacturing site labels many months ago as it was just too depressing).
I tried this 10 years ago and found it nearly impossible.
Without regard to cost, I’d have to search multiple product types at multiple stores, with very limited success.
My $199 TV set will have its 20th birthday early next year. It is an RCA and was one of the last ones made in the USA before the plant was outsourced. Of course it also was one of the last models sold without a remote control.
My next TV will be a high-def and a nice one, but I figure again I will buy one that should last a while.
Unfortunately, “Made in USA” will probably NOT be on the label.
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