Can we call for a boycott of China made toys before they kill all our kids?

[MGRS13]

CHINA IS TRYING TO KILL OUR NEXT GENERATION! It's time we call for a boycott!
ORK (CNN) -- U.S. safety officials have voluntarily recalled about 4.2 million Chinese-made Aqua Dots toys contaminated with a powerful "date rape" drug that has caused some children to vomit and lose consciousness upon ingesting the contents.


Bindeez, which were named Australia's toy of the year, contain a chemical that converts into a "date rape" drug.

Scientists have found the highly popular holiday toy contains a chemical that, once metabolized, converts into the toxic "date rape" drug GHB (gamma-hydroxy butyrate), U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) spokesman Scott Wolfson told CNN.

"Children who swallow the beads can become comatose, develop respiratory depression or have seizures," a CPSC statement warned.

"Anyone with Aqua Dots at home should throw them out," CPSC spokeswoman Julie Vallese said. The toy was named toy of the year in Australia and recently made Wal-Mart Store Inc's list of top 12 Christmas toys.

Wal-Mart on Thursday listed Aqua Dots on its Web site as "out of stock online" and had removed the toy from its top toy list as well.

The arts and craft beads, aimed at children four years and older, have been selling since April at major U.S. retail stores as "Aqua Dots" and in Australia under the name "Bindeez Beads."

Toronto-based toy distributor Spin Master Ltd. stopped shipping the Aqua Dots toys and asked retailers to pull them off their shelves, where they had sold for $17-$30. Watch what's known about the beads »

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Melbourne-based Moose Enterprise Pty. Ltd. recalled the Bindeez toys on Tuesday after three children in Australia swallowed large quantities of the beads and were hospitalized.

"I was so frightened because I thought she wasn't going to make it," Heather Lehane told CNN affiliate Network 7 of her 10-year-old daughter, Charlotte, who was among those children.

In the United States, the Washington-based safety commission said it has in recent days received two reports detailing the severe effects of the digested beads.

The CPSC said a boy nearly two years old "swallowed several dozen beads. He became dizzy and vomited several times before slipping into a comatose state for a period of time." The toddler was hospitalized and has since "fully recovered," the commission added.



In the second incident, a child vomited, fell into a coma and was hospitalized for five days. It was not immediately clear whether the child had made a full recovery.

The recall is the latest to target Chinese-made toys. Last month, U.S. government safety officials and retailers voluntarily recalled at least 69,000 Chinese-made toys over concerns of excessive amounts of lead paint, which can cause lead poisoning. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Janine Brady, Jason Carroll, Laura Dolan, Julie O'Neill and Leslie Wiggins contributed to this report

[MahiMike]

Why stop w/toys? Best place to boycott is Walmart. 99% of their goods are from COMMUNIST China! Every dollar spent at Walmart is another $.50 for the red army. We have trade barriers w/Cuba and yet trillions in trade deficit with this country? No wonder they're the fastest growing economy while our dollar sinks to the bottom. Wake up people.

[Mecca]

A toy that has the date rape drug chemical.......that sounds like a party not anything to boycott.

[Lonewolf Ed]

Well, how else do you expect the USA to become a second-rate country? Ask any liberal... we don't deserve our prosperity. China should be the most powerful nation and be the industrial leader in the world.

[jidar]

Luckily I bought all of mine to give to my dates so this is like two birds with one stone for me.

[SNR]

But they're so COOL!

[Hog Farmer]

That explains why my little girl kept wanting to sit on my lap last night.

[Pushead2]

A toy that has the date rape drug chemical.......that sounds like a party not anything to boycott.
:shake:

[ChiefsFan4Life]

That explains why my little girl kept wanting to sit on my lap last night.

:spock:

[Pushead2]

That explains why my little girl kept wanting to sit on my lap last night.

:shake: :shake:

[Donger]

That's bad. But, then again, why are these kids swallowing toys?

[Pushead2]

That's bad. But, then again, why are these kids swallowing toys?

Getting ready for the future?

[cosmo20002]

CHINA IS TRYING TO KILL OUR NEXT GENERATION!

I'm sure the Chinese factories sometimes share the blame, but often the problem on these recalls has nothing to do with them--the flaws are in the product design. But then a story comes out that mentions "Chinese-made" and it deflects responsibility from the companies right here in the US who designed the thing in the first place. The Chinese are just putting the stuff together as designed.

The huge toy recall a couple months ago that seemed to start this latest wave was blamed on lead paint being illegally used in Chinese plants. It wasn't true. Mattell spun that story and later had to admit that paint was not the issue--it was design flaws from Mattell.

I'm sure China puts out its share of crap on its own, but US corps need to be held accountable for their screw-ups and safety issues.

[Chief Chief]

Call for a boycott! The number is 1-888-BOYCOTT.

[Brock]

We shouldn't be doing business with them at all to begin with.

[NewPhin]

I guess David Boston was playing with Aqua Dots.

[Stryker]

The recall is the latest to target Chinese-made toys. Last month, U.S. government safety officials and retailers voluntarily recalled at least 69,000 Chinese-made toys over concerns of excessive amounts of lead paint, which can cause lead poisoning.

Yeah, I guess they are going to recall this toy as well. Boy the kids are surely going to miss this one...

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[FAX]

Why stop w/toys? Best place to boycott is Walmart. 99% of their goods are from COMMUNIST China! Every dollar spent at Walmart is another $.50 for the red army. We have trade barriers w/Cuba and yet trillions in trade deficit with this country? No wonder they're the fastest growing economy while our dollar sinks to the bottom. Wake up people.

I couldn't agree more, Mr. MahiMike. God bless you and God bless America.

And fie upon the Yellow Hordes.

FAX

[chagrin]

Who was that that argued to me that Chinese made products are perfectly fine, heh.

Even in Russia they think Chinese products are horrible and of poor quality, dangerous, etc.

[chagrin]

Okay, the Jade is nice but you know what I mean...

[Hog Farmer]

I think we should just go ahead and attack China!

[seclark]

i know what i'm asking santa for Christmas!
sin,
sebastian janikowski

[penchief]

Well, how else do you expect the USA to become a second-rate country? Ask any liberal... we don't deserve our prosperity. China should be the most powerful nation and be the industrial leader in the world.

That's it. Blame it on the liberals. What an asshole thing to say. I'm a liberal and I've been complaining about this shit on this board for over four years. I've been complaining about the selling out of this country only to be told by conservatives that, "It's the FREE MARKET, FREE MARKET!"

It's only a free market if it's not being manipulated by those who use the free market mantra to convince the masses that we all benefit from their rigging of the system for their narrow self-serving interests.

Wake up and look at the real source of the problem. The Wall Street mentality of those money-grubbing corporate fascists on the right who want the world to revolve around speculation and the free money ethic instead of the work-ethic and around manipulation of the market instead of an honest market.

Liberals, my ass. More like greedy right wing corporate conservatives.

[Valiant]

That's bad. But, then again, why are these kids swallowing toys?


From the picture I have seen the things are literally the size of pencil tip eraser and aimed at children 4 & up..

[Bob Dole]

That's it. Blame it on the liberals. What an asshole thing to say. I'm a liberal and I've been complaining about this shit on this board for over four years. I've been complaining about the selling out of this country only to be told by conservatives that, "It's the FREE MARKET, FREE MARKET!"

It's only a free market if it's not being manipulated by those who use the free market mantra to convince the masses that we all benefit from their rigging of the system for their narrow self-serving interests.

Wake up and look at the real source of the problem. The Wall Street mentality of those money-grubbing corporate fascists on the right who want the world to revolve around speculation and the free money ethic instead of the work-ethic and around manipulation of the market instead of an honest market.

Liberals, my ass. More like greedy right wing corporate conservatives.
That's it. Blame it on the greedy right wing corporate conservatives. What an asshole thing to say. Bob Dole is a greedy right wing corporate conservative and... wait.

That didn't work right.

[Chest Rockwell]

Anybody know what the dosage-to-weight ratio for these things are?

Just in the interest of science, y'know.

[Rausch]

I think we should just go ahead and attack China!

How much more poison can be stuffed into a McDonald's hamburger?...

[Rausch]

I'm sure the Chinese factories sometimes share the blame, but often the problem on these recalls has nothing to do with them--the flaws are in the product design. But then a story comes out that mentions "Chinese-made" and it deflects responsibility from the companies right here in the US who designed the thing in the first place. The Chinese are just putting the stuff together as designed.
.

Do we design the crops from there as well?...

[Pitt Gorilla]

We shouldn't be doing business with them at all to begin with.Exactly. Why couldn't manufacturing move back to the US, or at least Mexico. US-made stuff might cost more, but at least we wouldn't be giving China as much of our money.

[stevieray]

That's it. Blame it on the liberals. What an asshole thing to say. I'm a liberal and I've been complaining about this shit on this board for over four years. I've been complaining about the selling out of this country only to be told by conservatives that, "It's the FREE MARKET, FREE MARKET!"

It's only a free market if it's not being manipulated by those who use the free market mantra to convince the masses that we all benefit from their rigging of the system for their narrow self-serving interests.

Wake up and look at the real source of the problem. The Wall Street mentality of those money-grubbing corporate fascists on the right who want the world to revolve around speculation and the free money ethic instead of the work-ethic and around manipulation of the market instead of an honest market.

Liberals, my ass. More like greedy right wing corporate conservatives.

ROFL

[KC Dan]

Wake up and look at the real source of the problem. The Wall Street mentality of those money-grubbing corporate fascists on the right who want the world to revolve around speculation and the free money ethic instead of the work-ethic and around manipulation of the market instead of an honest market.

Liberals, my ass. More like greedy right wing corporate conservatives.
Yeah, they are all right wingers. You really are delusional sometimes. Believe me, there are just as many lefties running companies and in wall street as righties. What you said above sure sound like you are describing the "green" effort by companies. Guess who will reap those profits? Not just righties, I can assure you that.

[chasedude]

We shouldn't be doing business with them at all to begin with.


Right! Cuba is communist, we don't do business with them :spock:

How hypocritical is that?

[penchief]

Yeah, they are all right wingers. You really are delusional sometimes. Believe me, there are just as many lefties running companies and in wall street as righties. What you said above sure sound like you are describing the "green" effort by companies. Guess who will reap those profits? Not just righties, I can assure you that.

I'm not delusional at all. I understand that all walks of life will leech off others. However, why does it always seem like the righties want to blame the "liberals" for everything? Even when right-wing ideology seems most responsible for this country's most recent screw-ups?

I'm getting tired of republicans and righties screwing up royally and still having the gall to blame somebody else. There's been a lot of power usurping going on and that has benefitted a lot of powerful entities in ways that have not benefitted the liberal cause. So yeah, I get irritated when "the liberals" are supposedly to blame for not only this country's current predicament, but also for undermining their own liberal values.

It's not the liberals who have caused this country's current predicament. It's the influential few who have decided to put wealth and power above the overall good of our country and we, the people. And their vehicle has been conservative republicans and others on the right, not liberals, IMO.

[Brock]

I'm not delusional at all. I understand that all walks of life will leech off others. However, why does it always seem like the the righties want to blame the "liberals" for everything? Even when right-wing ideology seems most responsible for this country's most recent screw-ups?

Uh, because the right wing has been in charge most recently?

[KC Dan]

I'm not delusional at all. I understand that all walks of life will leech off others. However, why does it always seem like the it's the righties who want to blame the "liberals" for everything? Even when right-wing ideology seems most responsible for this country's most recent screw-ups?
Your'e kidding right? Every newspaper I read, every tv news program I watch (except the righty FOX), every radio program (other than extreme righty Hannity, Savage or Limbaugh) that I listen to hammers daily on the right for causing our ills. You must only watch FoxNews and listen to Hannity, Savage or Limbaugh - right?

[Jayhawkerman2001]

Why stop w/toys? Best place to boycott is Walmart. 99% of their goods are from COMMUNIST China! Every dollar spent at Walmart is another $.50 for the red army. We have trade barriers w/Cuba and yet trillions in trade deficit with this country? No wonder they're the fastest growing economy while our dollar sinks to the bottom. Wake up people.

DING DING DING!!!! MahiMike, you are absolutely correct. Wal-Mart is a corporation that is slowly killing this country. They rely too much on sweatshops in countries like china. I've actually taken a stand against them and havent shopped there for a little over 2 months now. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES, DON'T GO TO WAL-MART!!!!

[penchief]

Your'e kidding right? Every newspaper I read, every tv news program I watch (except the righty FOX), every radio program (other than extreme righty Hannity, Savage or Limbaugh) that I listen to hammers daily on the right for causing our ills. You must only watch FoxNews and listen to Hannity, Savage or Limbaugh - right?

I've seen more on CNN and MSNBC that pisses me off than I agree with. For example, Glen Beck is an opportunistic bandier of hyperbolic name-calling.

How anyone can think that the corporately owned media is beating the bushes in order to expose the secrecy and corruption within this presidency as much as it did to pursue the extra-curricular activities of Bill Clinton, is a question everyone should ask his or herself.

Are reporters more activist? Sure. But are programming decisions more slanted toward the right and this administration's pro-corporate agenda? Yes.

The corporate media is one of the major reasons we were able to be sold on a phony bill of goods in Iraq. And its continual pimping of this administration's agenda will result in more profit for them but less freedom for us.

[Brock]

The corporate media is one of the major reasons we were able to be sold on a phony bill of goods in Iraq. And its continual pimping of this administration's agenda will result in more profit for them but less freedom for us.

I love it when you spout off these vague generalities with zero substance to them. You have exactly the same amount of freedom you had the day Bush took office, whoops, actually you have more, since the Brady bill sunsetted.

[FAX]

It won't matter what political leanings you have when we're sitting in a Chinese re-education camp burning urine to keep warm and picking lice off each other.

While we, in America, snipe at each other, the Yellow Hordes are busily manufacturing billions of weaponized bras, buying out our economic infrastructure with our own debt, constructing moon bases, poisoning our kids, and opening up countless all-you-can-eat buffets designed to make us so obese that all a Chinaman has to do is fart real loud and the resulting coronary will drop us in our tracks.

Where are you, John Wayne?

FAX

[Rain Man]

I bet there's some pedophile bulletin board where this same thread has 2,000 posts.

[Bob Dole]

And now the bastards are circulating poisonous Curious George toys.

Is nothing sacred?

[penchief]

That's it. Blame it on the greedy right wing corporate conservatives. What an asshole thing to say. Bob Dole is a greedy right wing corporate conservative and... wait.

That didn't work right.

I've got no gripe with Bob Dole. Bob Dole has always been reasonable.

[Chiefnj2]

I just ate 37 of those damn little beads and I dont feel any different.

[tooge]

DING DING DING!!!! MahiMike, you are absolutely correct. Wal-Mart is a corporation that is slowly killing this country. They rely too much on sweatshops in countries like china. I've actually taken a stand against them and havent shopped there for a little over 2 months now. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES, DON'T GO TO WAL-MART!!!!
After seeing a report on a TV manufactuing plant in some small town , USA being shut down due to its largest purchaser (walmart) going to china for the parts, I agree. They even had the nerve to use the plant structure for of al things, a friggin Walmart! Ok, now I've pissed myself off, here I go. First off, I haven't shopped at a Walmart in over 4 years. I refuse. They are killing mom and pop stores right and left, and they hire nothing but retards and offer crappy benefits. The last time I went to a Walmart, it was to "buy" a fishin pole to take on a canoe trip with the intent to return it as defective when I got back. It worked. What a bunch of fukups. Look at the losers that shop there. I challenge anyone to go there and start counting the people. See how many are overweight (I mean obese). See how many smell. See how many have like 4 or more dirty kids. Do we as Americans really want this image as our #1 retailer? No. Do Not Shop At Walmart. You are killing the USA when you do. If you shop there, you only have two excuses. 1. You are too freakin lazy to go a bit farther for a different place to shop. or 2. You are just plain ignorant. Any of you shop there? Why? Dont tell me cause its cheaper, that is a sellout.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

I eagerly anticipate the follow up thread that bitches about the price of toys.