At least three times in the past month I’ve heard and read about Chinese toys being recalled because of lead paint and small parts. Back in early August the initial spark was set when China recalled about 1.5 million Fisher-Price toys due to a lead paint hazard. Two weeks later Mattel announced they were recalling 9 million Chinese-made toys for the same reason, in addition to ingestible magnets. Eventually the number jumped to 20 million.
And yesterday Starbucks announced they were recalling 250,000 Chinese-made plastic cups for children. The cups, if dropped, shatter into smaller parts which are ingestible by children. And they’re sharp pieces of plastic.
I see the real issue here. It sounds like that American news spin is being put on these stories to make it look like it’s China’s fault, and I want those reporters to know I can see through their lies. The real issue is that Mattel and Fisher-Price are trying to poison America’s children with lead paint, while Starbucks is trying to expand their empire by getting kids addicted to coffee at such a young age.
Do we really need more Starbuck-mania? Ten years ago words like “latte” and “frappucino” did not commonly exist in our vocabularies. Now we get to swallow the stuff every day. Soon your elementary school children will be begging you to stop by the drive in on the way to school so they can get that quick caffeine fix before first grade today.
Are the Chinese trying to hurt us? I doubt it. They regularly use lead paint in their daily activities; that’s why they can dive so deep underwater. Mattel, Fisher-Price and especially Starbucks are the real villains here. Their oversight has almost cost us an entire generation of Barbie lovers and GI Joe fanatics. And they nearly continued the spread of the coffee disease and lounge hippies. This madness has got to stop.
