No private company wants to be sued and they do want to produce good products so they sell them and have repeat customers and more customers.
So are you for government telling a private company where they can set up shop or how to produce things etc? Why are you for government imposing your views on the rest of us. If I owned a company I would set up production where I want to and I don't want the government telling me where I can start my businesses or where I can work. What you seem to be suggestin is is against freedom and so seems un-American in my opinion. this country was based on freedom.
buyer beware. do your own research on the Internet on companies , ingredients, products. Solve your own problems and don't wait for the government to solve your problems for you. You like many others seem to trust government politicians and bureaucrats who are evil, corrupt, cretins who are unaccountable to anyone to run these industries. That didn't work too well in the USSR, Cuba, Cambodia etc.
I bought millions of pieces of food in my life and never had a problem. multiply that by 300 million people in the U.S.A and then you can see the reliability of these companies. The liberal media blames these companies because some idiot wanting attention says he got sick or wants to hip the law suit lottery.
Socialism has never worked anywhere it has been tried, the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, the killing Fields of Cambodia etc. . This is one reason why government idiots can never be as good as private industry:
socialism /collectivism doesn't work
F. A. Hayek had a remarkable career pointing out the flaws in collectivism. One of his keenest insights was that, paradoxically, any collectivist system necessarily depends on one individual (or small group) to make key social and economic decisions. In contrast, a system based on individualism takes advantage of the aggregate, or 'collective,' information of the whole society; through his actions each participant contributes his own particular, if incomplete, knowledge—information that could never be tapped by the individual at the head of a collectivist state.
Private companies in China, what a concept? Talking about private companies in China sounds like Bill Clinton talking. I will never forget while as President Clinton took exception to someone referring to China as either Communist China or Red China. I do not remember if that was before or after it was made public on this forum at least, that Clinton had illegally taken political contributions from the Commies. My dream would be that we could export something to Communist China like trial lawyers, and they could sue the pants or whatever the fashion is in China off companies who send us products which are inferior and possibly dangerous. But the companies do not have big enough pockets to suit our trial lawyers who like John Edwards have become very very rich oversuing. The facts are that companies in China and the US do not compete on level playing fields. Companies in America are oversued and that is one of many significant reasons why jobs leave our county. But the facts are, that American companies are being oversued because they are private and have big pockets, and Chinese companies will hardly ever be sued because they are not all that private and do not have big pockets. American companies have to pay for software licenses on ALL their computers, I just wonder if Chinese companies do? As a conservative I believe in private enterprise and free market, when it comes to China those things are merely words of propaganda exported to suckers like the United States, oops I meant trading partners like the US, I apologize to all the NWO boys for my slip of the tongue.
Your first point is correct that private companies don’t want to be sued. The problem is that many importers are at the same disadvantage as the American consumer , we just don’t know what are in some of these products and it’s impossible to find out .
You say buyer beware . I agree with that and always check for Country of Origin . It doesn’t do a bit of good with many food products that consist of many ingredients , many of which are imported from China and Mexico . That was the case with the pet food debacle .
It appears that many staple grain products are coming from China as well . It’s impossible to know if these grains are being used in many common food products , so the buyer beware argument doesn’t really hold up .
There is also a movement underway to do away with Country of Origin labelling on all products, which is a very unnerving prospect . Global “free trade” is great !
Are you comfortable with that ?
Ummm... Yummy Chinese buns ...
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