U.S. Retailers Decline to Aid Factory Victims in Bangladesh.

[Demo_Chris]

22. There is only one answer...

If you want standards such as safe and clean working conditions, workers rights, and even product safety and quality control, the product must be made here where these things can be inspected by the only agency with a vested interest in ensuring compliance -- the government. Without that as a minimum nothing else is even worth discussing.

We have a hard enough time just making sure these things happen here, let alone overseas.

Sadly, neither party is even remotely interested in this, and the current administration is as bad as any. I believe they just approved the exporation of chickens to China so that they could be processed there and shipped back over here. It is apparently cheaper to ship a chicken to the other side of the world, then back again, rather than paying a living wage and processing the meat safely here. The only possible savings come from slave labor and the complete abandonment of anything even approaching proper food handling proceedures. If we are disgusting here, and we are, just imagine how horrid the new processes will be. And more, just imagine how many wonderful new plagues we will be importing, and how many Americans may die.

Apparently our party's leaders don't care about that though.