It has less to do with the public's 'ignorance' about Chinese brands but with the fact that so many small and midsized, fly-by-night Chinese companies produce cheap GENERIC trinkets that get distributed by the train-load through channels like WALMART. Most of these 'trinkets' are of low price-points as in CHEAP and we ...more

idiotic comment. Dude from Nashville can't think of anything else but 'Hitler' on a story like this.

Horrible! That is like charging the victims of genocide for the bullets that were used... something disturbingly wrong about the whole thing!

Question: does one 'raise awareness' with 'on-the-hoof-canniba ​ lism'? I venture to guess this bizarre tale will just feed the fundamentalist nut-cases to project the 'sick-factor' on a whole lot more people than Japanese ultra-masochistic 'asexuals'...

Finally; the gloves come off! The poachers in India, in Africa, but China too are going for every last tiger, elephant, rhino and panda for frivilous short-term GREED! They are destroying our common and their country's future and rare inheritances. They were able to do so because it wasn't an 'equal playing field'! Now...more

'dum people make me laugh' posts the same completely unrelated to this discussion diatribe on every article. What is up with this rightwing cyber scatting? What does Obama have to do with the price of fish? No I shouldn't have asked - we might get another long-winded, convoluted rant...

I think we were ALL exposed to a massive hypnotic spell during the era of greed (not over yet, but mostly an 'elite' affair) that told us we needed big mortgages and car loans (right up to the amount the banks QUALIFIED-red-lined us for) that student loans were a smart thing and credit cards because... hell... you can ...more

We all know that in a group of ten thousand, almost everybody was playing nice, but at least a handful of NUTS concocted something stupid that seemed 'smart at the time'.  Of course, most likely they are 'terribly sorry' now. Which is why events like this should ALWAYS ASSUME the WORST CASE SCENARIO! The zoo showed p...more

I lost my mind once but luckily found it again! Let me see... what I do with it?