The Starbucks children’s mugs being recalled
This is getting ridiculous. It makes tonight’s little demonstration debate with the Repubs, and all their talk of “free trade” nauseating. (HT Pat S.)
Starbucks recalls 250,000 kids’ plastic cups
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Starbucks Corp, the world’s biggest coffee shop chain, recalled 250,000 children’s plastic cups made in China after receiving reports of the cups breaking and posing a choking hazard.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said Starbucks received seven reports of the cups breaking, including two reports in which a child began to choke on a piece of the cup.
‘Free’ Trade all right–free to kill our pets, free to poison our food, free to hurt our kids. And Congress sits around trying to figure out more ways to do nothing, or score political points and appease special interest groups. Oh yeah, when they’re not busy looking for sex with strangers in bathrooms. Seriously, when is enough enough?
Suddenly, whenever I think of Washington, DC, I have a special new appreciation for Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.
Related Link:
CPSC: Starbucks Recalls Children’s Plastic Cups Due to Choking and Laceration Hazards
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I wonder just how much the companies, who decided to close factories in the states and/or choose suppliers in China for better profits, are coming out ahead with all of these wonderful recalls. When Walmart could no longer brag in their commercials with the slogan of “Made in America” I knew we were probably going to be in trouble. However, I never foresaw just how bad it would get. We are all barraged by recall warnings on, at least, a biweekly basis. Capitalism is a wonderful thing. It’s even better when the products are made right here in the good old US of A, starting from American raw materials. This can only go so far until the only items children can play with, or eat out, of will be paper boxes that are made in America.
The Chinese military has said it is conducting “unrestricted warfare” against the United States for some time now. I’m uncertain what that means, but it does seem to include cyber attacks. They are also constructing a new class of ballistic missile submarines. It is obvious that the United States is the only country that they would need boomers to engage. And they are using technology given them by the Clinton Administration to build anti-satellite missiles; they acknowledge that in a conflict with the US they would need to disable our surveillance and communication satellites. As far as I can tell our politicians are ignoring the threat while the Chinese and Russians egg on our Islamic adversaries.
Starbucks calls this an isolated incident and has no plans to discontinue sourcing from China. Last year Starbucks recalled 73,000 China-made coffee machines prone to overheating and melting.
Starbucks may call these isolated incidents, but China’s health minister calls it an allergy. Speaking about other recalls he said:
I believe in free trade, but free trade crucially depends upon transparency and trust. In America, we have evolved market mechanisms such as the Better Business Bureau and Underwriters Laboratories to help assure us of the quality of the products that we buy. I suggest we leave the trade doors with China open as long as the goods coming from China are labeled appropriately, and encourage people to examine the products, look for the UL stamp (say, on those coffee machines), insist on being able to see the recall records for public companies selling Chinese goods, and generally accept responsibility for what we choose to buy—based on the best information available to us. In other words, caveat emptor, a principle thousands of years old.
I’m just trying to get my mind wrapped around the fact that [1]Starbucks has sippy cups and [2] Starbucks charges six bucks for those craptactular cups.
Funny – I just assumed that Starbucks was boycotting China, to demonstrate their concern & sincerity re: a Free Tibet, cause it seems like that kinda company. How revealing.
ROFL!! Ruthanne, perfect comment. Now of course that will not stop me from my latte addiction, but that was spot on!
Tammy..shall we begin to call you Madame Defarge..hmmm? If anyone sees Tammy knitting let me know! (for those that don’t know refer to Tale of Two Cities-Dickens)
I find myself wondering how many American companies finally gave up and closed the doors after suffering years of federal agencies parading through the doors: do you have enough of a particular protected class on your payroll? OOH! a painted wooden ladder! While we drag your plant manager off in handcuffs for this felony, we will padlock your doors and throw your staff out of work.
Oh, and the Justice Department will be here to investigate your union busting activities that consisted of talking about the unions in less than stellar terms recently.
It’s not just the Haavahd MBAs making quick buck decisions that has put everything off-shore.
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