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A popular toy designed to be used with water is coated with substances that can metabolize into a date rape drug.
Dear sweet Jesus on toast. If I had kids, I'd buy them pipecleaners and have them make their own toys....
Dear sweet Jesus on toast. If I had kids, I'd buy them pipecleaners and have them make their own toys....
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Date: 2007-11-08 06:06 am (UTC)From:Personally... as someone who a) is more-or-less enviromentally conscious, b) subjected to polluted dust clouds from China's Gobi Desert every spring, and c) violently allergic to holiday decorations set up more than 2 weeks before said holiday... I've always advocated 'Christmas Not Made in China'. That China is sacrificing the environmental future of its country to make plastic ticky-tack for American holidays (and incidentally selling tons of the stuff here in Japan) is not something I care to support.
It is a scary, scary thing to be a parent these days. Some days it really is like running to stand still. I think of the poor parents, because it's one of the classics, the trying to do a good thing and having it all go bad....
((and also? I'm picturing all the potential date rapists, going out and buying up all these toys that they can....))