1,300 Chinese Children Near Smelter Suffer Lead Poisoning
In the race to the bottom that we’re still in. Jobs are sent to China where there is no regulation, safety or decent wages. When this sort of trade policy is condoned, this is what the outcome will be.
More than 1,300 children have been poisoned by a manganese factory in central China, the state media reported today, amid growing fears about the prevalence of heavy metal pollution nationwide.
Besides the Chinese government the United States Chamber of Commerce and others are also responsible for promoting trade policies that send work to the unsafe and unregulated market that is China. Indeed even when China tried to protect its workers somewhat by giving labor unions more power and protecting workers’ rights, the Chamber of Evil was heavily against it.
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