In an effort to promote healthy eating habits among children in California, the California State government distributed about 56,000 lunch boxes. Like everyone else, they wanted to save some money, and so they purchased the lunch boxes from China.
The lunch boxes contain unsafe levels of lead, which can cause brain damage if ingested by young children or over long-term exposure.
We (as in the people) only just learned about this recall today, yet the lead testing was done in July and proved that the boxes did contain lead in several parts, including the logo and lining.
An investigation in February by the Associated Press found that the government has been testing children’s lunchboxes and found that many of them DID contain lead. Nearly all of them were made in China.
These recalled lunch boxes were green canvas and imported from China by T-A Creations of Los Angeles.
China and the United States have agreed to keep lead out of toys imported into the US. Read more about it here.
All this news about lead and toxic materials intended for human handling and consumption that were made in China reminds me of the 1700’s when the British handed out blankets to Native Americans, blankets which were laced with smallpox. The rest, as they say, is history……………
actually this is a case of Americans wanting really cheap shit, and getting it too!
Are we now to believe that the Chinese don’t know what they’re doing? Are they trying to take our children out? Why do we keep acting as if all this lead and crappy quality control is a surprise? Wake up, Americans! Do you really think the Chinese aren’t aware that this crap is poisoning our children, and if it does, who does it benefit? THE CHINESE!
Point of fact: the idea that the British gave smallpox to Native Americans with infected blankets is a myth, for two reasons. First, smallpox is not spread that way, it’s spread like a cold, with somebody coughing on you. Second, it was against the interests of the British (and the French for that matter) to have the Natives down with smallpox; they needed them as military alliances and as fur trade labor. Sadly, the Chinese don’t need our labor, but they do need our consumers, which is what children in this country become when they grow up.
I guess the government did it to save money. I doubt they’ll have saved anything after the lawyers get involved.
Think about it…do you really think suddenly we are getting all these lead products from China? We’ve probably been getting them all along…we just never knew about it…for some “strange” reason.