Chinese clothing may be toxic

That is IT.
This really is the final straw.

I remember reading recently about a family in Arkansas that went an entire year without buying a single product manufactured in China. I am seriously considering this for my own family.
I know it will not be easy since EVERYTHING (it seems) is made there, but I am going to give it an honest try.
It's a bit unsettling to know that the product doesn't necessarily need to be "made in China" to be tainted if the "ingredients" or cloth originates in China, but even just avoiding the labeled Chinese products has got to help and hopefully, if enough people adopt this same resolution, it will send a clear message.

I'm truly not a paranoid alarmist, but it's beginning to seem a *tad* suspicious that SO many things from China is hazardous to our health...
Just my .02

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My mom has refused to buy anything made in China for years now, because she said the Chinese were using innocent people who were unlawfully put in prison as slave laborers to make the products. That is why the products exported from China are so cheap for Americans to buy. Now it looks like she was doing the right thing all along. I will probably jump on board too.

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It almost seems like China is trying to take us out internally. I try not to worry about these things as well. I mean, look how many years lead paint was used and most people didn't really get too sick from it (that we know of). With today's technology, these types of things shouldn't even be an issue though. I just can't believe how many things have gone wrong from China. We heard about 1) Dog Food, 2) Lead in toys, 3) They put chopped up cardboard in their frozen wontons (that was on the news) and 4) bad clothing chemicals... what is next? I think we should seriously ban imports from China until they get their act together.

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Well in this household I am too not going to buy anything from China. We had some of those tainted toys. I wrote all my children's toy companies and Lego is made in Mexico and Europe (with a few motors made in China). Playmobil is made in Europe with the exception of like 5 toys, and the company gave me a list of those. Supposedly Little Tykes is made in Ohio, but I have to check that out some more.

On the note of clothes my husband told me that H&M also uses those dyes that contain lots of bad things. He told me last year, and forbid me to shop there and I have not. I cannot remember exactly what was in the dyes, but I wasn't taking any chances.

Christmas shopping should be fun this year, hope the kids do not ask Santa for anything that Chinese Santa makes!!!!!

China is using us to destroy ourselves. Check out this article I found online.... http://www.regularguy.com/stickers.htm


Eye opening!

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Okay, I guess I was not done. Thought of more to say. This is very hurtful to me because I trusted these AMERICAN companies and they let this happen to our children. We had a bunch of those toys. My son's got lead blood levels done on Friday, awaiting the results. Try to explain to your 5 year old why we have to throw out his toys and now he has to have blood drawn. And my poor 2 year old.

Anyway. I think we should have Mattel and Made in China throw away parties. Let's show these AMERICAN companies we will not stand to support the Chinese government any longer. Just like Book Burnings back in the day. We should organize these massive throw out China parties and get the news involved. I do not know about you, but I am sure you would not mind spending a little more on a toy if you KNEW IT WAS MADE IN AMERICA! Not to mention the unemployment will go down because all these out of work Americans can do these toy making jobs. It is a win win situation!

Mothers Against China! Give it a thought, lets just do it!

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I found a good site to buy baby clothes and toys that are free of these bad chemicals: www.bestbabyorganics.com They have certified organic cotton clothing that uses only natural dyes. The best part is that none of their items are made in China.

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But you don't have to really pay more to buy made in USA Jeans. Texas Jeans at http://TexasJeans.com is a 100% Made in USA Jeans and Denim line for Men. They have the greatest Jeans at prices you would pay for Levis or Wranglers made in Mexico or China. With US standards on washing etc you know they are not Toxic, who knows with all the bleaching,sanding, spraying that goes into China made Jeans you see in the stores today.

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Formaldehyde is made from ingested methanol from dark wines and liquors, and from aspartame: Murray 2007.08.21

Much of toxicity of aspartame drinks and also from dark wines and liquors comes from the one part in 10,000 level of methanol, which the body quickly turns into formaldehyde, an extremely potent, cumulative, multifaceted toxin.

Aspartame toxicity was shown in thirteen detailed mainstream research studies in 24 months in work by expert teams in South Africa, England, Italy, Greece, Hungary, and Mexico.

Very little has been publicized in mass print and broadcast media.

Also highly relevant are a study in South Korea that finds levels of methanol similar to those from aspartame drinks cause the hangovers from alcohol drinks, a study in China on Alzheimer's type damage in nerve cells from low dose formaldehyde, and an IARC review by 25 experts that determines formaldehyde to be a human carcinogen.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1464
13 mainstream research studies in 24 months showing aspartame toxicity, also 3 relevant studies on methanol and formaldehyde: Murray 2007.08.17

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1457
aspartame bans, tis more an avalanche than a trend...: Rich Murray 2007.08.17

[ see also:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1458
ASDA, Wal-Mart's UK supermarket chain, bans artificial colors, trans fats, MSG and aspartame, Marguerite Kelly, The Washington Post: Murray
2007.08.03 ]

So far, USA print and broadcast media are deaf, blind, and dumb, regarding recent major bans of aspartame and MSG in the UK and EU.

The EU Parliament voted July 12 to ban artificial sweeteners in newly born and infant foods.

On May 15 four huge UK supermarket chains announced bans of aspartame and MSG, food dyes, and many additives to protect kids from ADHD --
Sainsbury, Tesco, Marks & Spencer, and ASDA, a unit of WalMart.

May 31: Coca-Cola and the much larger Cargill Inc., after years of secret development, with 24 patents, will soon sell rebiana (stevia) in drinks and food in the many nations where it is approved as a sweetener -- for decades a major sweetener in Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Malasia, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Israel, and an approved supplement in USA, Australia, and Canada, according to Wikipedia.

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Oh my, I'm not paranoid, but I can't help but feel this could be one big conspiracy. Our pets and our children? Who's to say that the same contaminant in pet food isn't already in our food supply imported from China? Those with good dental hygiene have already been targeted??? Sadly....my mother warn me about these things... I pray all our children will emergere healthy from all of this (or recover fully).

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You're all welcome to shop at my store, http://www.athleticappeal.com. We only sell 100% American made clothing at affordable rates. We should support our own workers and yes, we do have quality standards. I guarantee you that my prices are equal to or less than those imports, and they are quality! God bless America!

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Last winter I went on a mission to find clothes..any clothes not made in China. They all were, no matter if I shopped at Dillards or Target.
My name brand tennis shoes..made in China. On an interesting note, we were in London this summer where I bought a toy Beefeater bear for my 2 year old grandson. Yep, made in China. In Stockholm, I bought a toy stuffed moose, made in SWEDEN!! In fact every item of clothes I bought in Scandinavia was made there, NOT China. If I can find anything in the USA not made in China, I will buy it. The Little Tykes car we bought our grandson is made in the USA, but when I called the company to comment, she said that some of their smaller products are made in China. Let's get the word out that we won't buy China made products!

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Every manufacturing plant in china requires electricity from power plants that emit 70 times the mercury into the atmosphere(and ultimately into the ocean or ground water). The recent economic boom has led to over 500 new power plants being built in china with none of the safety or environmental standards required in the USA. More than half of the mercury depositing on midwestern soil and lakes originates in Asia. Bottom line - everything that you buy from china means more poisons coming our way than if made in the USA. No telling the long term effects on Pacific Ocean food chain.

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Pretty disturbing.

Things like this make me want to move out to the middle of no where and become self suffcient! I guess I'll just buy organic even more instead...

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