While the number of critical issues seems to be rising it is possibly not an issue of more liberties being taken but rather more awareness. It is sad that it takes so much clamoring for people to do the right thing. This is however one of the benefits of a free press. Perhaps less awareness of celebrity movements and more awareness of life-threatening actions would be a good thing to see.
In the aftermath of the Enron, Worldcom, and other scandals, US business schools added ethics course to their curriculum. Maybe they need to make them mandatory and more comprehensive. Is this issue one of ethics, ignorance, or incompetence?
One of the sad realities of this whole mess is that it is not exclusive to the US. These Chinese companies are perfectly happy to poison the whole world, including their own people. On a CBS radio report it was said that 93% of Chinese nationals fear that what they eat is not completely safe.
New recalls - not toys but perhaps a more significant danger: healthcare
Malria vaccines - on the TDH blog
Faulty US made Kodak cameras and delayed shipments from Dell will not be tolerated in China (obviously as important as fautly tests and toxic toys!)
Outrage links for the weekend:
From JULY 6 2007 - Made Deadly in China posted a very nice Call to Action
Peggy has created quite a comprehensive list and some suggestions about how to deal with this issue.
Perhps my second favorite, after Made Deadly in China, is this very thorough review of things at the Blogher blog. Well done Elena Centor!
My thanks to the TDH blogger who put me on the track of these posts.
Be sure to visit the Squidoo lens: Recall Outrage, to see all of the links for this topic that have been suggested to me or that I have come across.
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