The Awful Back Alley of our Gleaming Toy Isles
Since our family has been affected by toy recalls, I must admit that I have only focused on ensuring that no hazardous toys find their way into our home. Also in my plight to ensure awareness for consumers I have given very little consideration to the people who actually work in the factories that supply these tainted and hazardous toys.
So I asked myself, if there has been a recall on a North American toy product due to excess levels of lead (or barium, etc.) because if a child ingested some of the paint and risked become seriously ill with long term development issues and even death…what was happening to the workers?
Here I began my research and am slowing beginning to understand the awful back-alley of our shiny toys for the North American market. I found this revealing interview YouTube, with a celebrated veteran journalist Loretta Tofani, which describes the terrible conditions, zero safety standards that obviously lead to serious illnesses (and death) for Chinese factory workers.
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Veteran reporter Loretta Tofani’s investigative project took her to China, where over a 12-month period she visited more than 25 factories and observed first hand how Chinese workers routinely lose their health and their lives making products for export to the United States and other countries.
