Tainting the poll
According to some poll, 76% of Americans plan on avoiding purchasing Chinese-made toys this year. I’ll give you a sec to think about why that poll is useless.
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OK, rant time:
What percentage of respondents would have thought about boycotting Chinese toys if they weren’t asked the poll question?
Are there any toys NOT made in China?
And in real life, how many people are going to pick up some Dora the Explorer Product X and actually bother to read which country it was manufactured in?
*sigh* it’s ok. it’s kinda like slapping a “no trans fat” label on something, even though the product never had transfat. Personally I have always been leery of stuff from China. Ever go to Chinatown, buy some, say, dried tree fungus, and then leave it in the pantry for a week or two? If you don’t consume the product fast enough, you get buggies crawling in the bag. It’s yeesh. Then again there is supposedly a rule in US food factories too, where product X can have “no more than 5 bug parts per 10 servings” or something like that.
Reply to annie“No more than 5 bug parts per 10 servings”? So that means our food’s guaranteed to be insect-free every other meal? That’s wonderful!
I’ll have to buy nothing but Chinatown produce when I get down there. Toughen up the immune system.
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