Is it bad to buy products from china

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most of the stuff we use are made in china. what am i gonna do, be a hermit?
 
JoeyWarren said:
Roughly two-thirds of the entire world’s cocoa is produced in Western Africa, with close to half of the total sourced from Côte d’Ivoire(Ivory Coast). Like many food industry producers, individual cocoa farmers are at the mercy of volatile world markets. The price can vary from £500 ($945) to £3,000 ($5,672) per ton, in the space of just a few years. While investors trading in cacao can dump shares at will, individual cocoa farmers cannot increase production or abandon trees at anywhere near that pace. When cocoa prices drop, farmers in West Africa sometimes cut costs by using slave labor.** It has been alleged that an estimated 90% of cocoa farms in Côte d’Ivoire have used some form of slave labor in order to remain viable.**
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Do you happen to know where the other third comes from? Just curious.
 
This is a hot topic on the tennis and guitar boards I read on the internet. Racquets and guitars are largely made in China.

I like Celeste’s comment, offhand, that cheap Chinese stuff actually contributes toward our “material-holism” in America. Need to know more, just study the explosion of growth in the storage unit industry.

I come at this from the opposite tack. . . the political fact that it’s VERY GOOD for the American economy to manufacture things. Many positive ripple effects when a nation is a manufacturing nation (as opposed to services). People cite cheap Chinese labor; actually we have the means, in our trade, tax and investment policies, to steer American consumers away from Chinese goods.

So not only is there a moral reason for this, but also a practical general economic good for America, if we can shift consumption from China, toward American manufactures.

Now the libertarians will chomp Adam Smith at you, spout classic economic theory (which has NEVER been in the real world, which only benefits the rich), on this issue.
 
Maxply said:
I like Celeste’s comment, offhand, that cheap Chinese stuff actually contributes toward our “material-holism” in America. Need to know more, just study the explosion of growth in the storage unit industry.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, the storage unit is the modern Holy of Holies. We periodically make the holy pilgrimage to the Holy Storage Place and make a sacrifice…of leaving something there…and the we return once in a while to remove the sacrifice after it has outlived it’s usefulness… 😃

Should I consider myself fortunate to be currently not renting one?🙂
 
JoshTanney said:
my shoes are from china :mad: do i need to thow them out
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Don’t throw your shoes out, what will that do? Just read it first
next time you buy it. But didn’t you say that you thought it was
ok to buy things in China? Why do you keep asking if you should throw things out?
 
Celeste88 said:
We don’t have too many choices to buy American goods anymore. 😦 Even our American flags are made in China !! (I wonder if other nations have their flags made in China?):confused:
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Yeah… I live outside of Philadelphia, so Old City, Independence Hall and all of those places are very popular tourists sites. When my sister-in-law and brother-in-law came to town, they were in one of the gift shops. He wanted to buy a little replica of the Liberty Bell. he turned it over and where was it made? Communist China!!! :eek: My brother-in-law is the type who would make a rucus over that and he did to the poor salesgirl who had nothing to do with getting these Chinese-made liberty bells. But I can understand his outrage at seeing the “LIBERTY” Bell being made in a country like China.

But like what others said, it’s not black and white. My husband and I do try to not purchase items made in China or other countries where human rights are basically non-existant. It has to be on sale for very little so as to skunk the companies that are exploiting the poor people in these countries. It’s extremely hard and we sometimes pay more money, but it teaches us the value in not being materialistic since we don’t purchase many items anymore. We actually bought a kitchen table and chairs set from Ethan Allen and specifically chose this particular set because they were supposed to be made in America. When we received the set, the table was made here, but the chairs were made in China. We returned the chairs and got our money back for them. Our thought was that if we wanted to get less expensive furniture we would have gone to another furniture store that sold furniture made in China - not Ethan Allen which used to be so proud of their Made in America image. Our place is not fully furnished or we have hand-me-downs because we’d rather wait years saving up for furniture made in America or other country with better human rights than a place like China. What gets me are companies like Ralph Lauren, who charge astromical prices for some of their labels (I think the Purple Label is made in Italy and US, but not totally sure) and yet pay so little to the girl or boy making the item of clothing.

Please note that I’m not against the Chinese people. My great-grandfather was a stow-away immigrant from China to the Philippines, so it has nothing to do with race or ethnicity. It’s more about the government and the treatment of the people. What disgusted me most was when I heard about those death rooms on the news a couple of years ago where the place baby girls in there and just starve them to death and the forced abortions. Yes, the US has legalized abortion here, but at least we are not forced to have them. There is still some sort of moral compass here no matter how slight it is.
 
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and can i still use the china things i have?
 
Personally, after the pet food scare, I would be very happy to wash my hands of Chinese products. (As someone with four dogs, four cats, who volunteers with animal rescue and is a dog groomer by proffession, it was a horrible thing to go through. Lots of prayers with St. Francis and I’m very thankful God watched our all of the little puppies and kitties I know!) However, our government isn’t going to let us be in that position. Will I try not to buy from China when I can? Of course. But until we get some changes here in the States we’re going to see a predominace of Chinese and forgien goods.

I keep thinking that maybe Pat Buchanan wasn’t so far off his rocker in 2000 with the ideas people thought would be isolationist. We started a nation that had a dream and the determination to carry it out. Where has that gone? We need to get back to having pride in our country and a return to the Christian values this country was founded on.
 
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