There’s a question that has been bothering me for a while now: Why are we still importing products from China considering how many product recalls there has been regarding Chinese made goods? We’re not talking about recalls such as the one that Kellogg announced recently because the packaging caused the cereal to have a strange taste and smell. We’re talking about recalls on products and foods because they can harm, maim, and kill. Here’s a list of recalled goods from China that were conducted in the last year:
- Shrek glasses sold at McDonald’s because of cadmium, which is a carcinogen and can cause ??kidney, liver, and bone damage
- drywall installed in homes in Florida which emit hydrogen sulfide which can cause respiratory problems as well as cause metal corrosion
- honey because it contained chloramphenicol, an antibiotic, which causes cancer in humans, that was given to the bees because they were dying from that nasty bee virus.
- kids jewelry, zippers, toys, etc. because they contained lead and/or cadmium.
I’m sure if I did a google search, I could come up with even more products. This list doesn’t even include the products from the past five years, such as dog food and crib recalls. Here are just a few issues that our importing of goods from the Chinese causes for both our county and theirs. Read more »
I was born and raised in the great state of Illinois. I grew up in a small rural town, went to college in a larger rural town, and then moved to Chicago, the best city in the world. Midwesterners by breeding are modest, earnest, honest, and polite. We say “please” and “thank you,” we hold doors open for strangers, and we nod hello whether walking down a busy sidewalk or cruising down a country road in our pick up truck. We go to potlucks, we help our neighbors, we presume very little, and we’re grateful for what we have. I haven’t lived in the Midwest for ten years, and I miss it.
When I first moved to the East, I had a very difficult time. I was isolated at home with two small children. In an effort to meet other mom’s like myself, I went to a playgroup where none of the women would talk to me because I was an outsider. After a few very awkward and uncomfortable attempts to insert myself into this playgroup, I stopped attending. None of the women followed up to find out why I hadn’t continued. Not to say that there aren’t unfriendly Midwesterners, but we would at least have the good sense to feel bad about making someone else feel so uncomfortable. Read more »
I embarrassed my two oldest daughters Saturday while we were shopping at the mall. My middle daughter is going on vacation with her grandparents and needed some clothes for the trip. She had a gift card to a certain teeny-bopper store (read the title of this post and you’ll know which one I’m talking about), so we stopped in to see if they had anything in the price range of the gift card. Everything about this store goes against the grain of who I am and who I want my daughters to be. However, I also try to be frugal and that gift card was “going to waste” at the bottom of my purse, so . . . in we went. Read more »
Last week, the NY Times published a list of twenty young authors to watch http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/books/03under.html. Sadly, I realized that my name not only was not on the list, but also that it would never be on the list. Now, I can hear you all saying, “Oh, Glenna, don’t be so negative; it will happen for you one day.” However, it isn’t that I’m being negative; I’m being realistic. See, the young authors list is a list of authors under 40. Strangely, I turned 40 in March. I say strangely because one day I was going along, a 30 something year old living my life; then one day, completely out of the blue, I was 40. So, according to the NY Times, I am no longer young (not to mention that I’m not a published author, but this fact is a minor complication). Read more »
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June 30, 2010 10:13 pm | 
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