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Originally Posted by raeanna74
I don't know how other's view the 'buy American' idea but what sticks out to me is that foreign products, especially those produced in China are inferior than American or other countries. This may not be the case but the issues with tainted dog food and tainted baby formula among other incidents that I can remember at the moment, tend to give the impression that Chinese products are more unsafe. Grated we've had our own foibles with Peanut products and spinach too but for some reason we tend to forget those problems more quickly. I don't really know why.
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It might not always be the case, but the China examples (including lead paint on toys) show a willingness to cut corners and do things as cheap as possible to make more money or undersell their competitors (including Mexico & Taiwan). And they don't have the 'strict' environmental and safety regulations that American companies have to meet.
The American examples were accidents for the most part. It's true that they could hire people who get paid enough to live in cleaner conditions, or at least give them gloves, masks and Tyvek suits to isolate their bacteria and germs from contaminating the product (or maybe they do and one bacteria found it's way in).