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Post by bowheadwhale on Feb 8, 2018 16:40:45 GMT -6
What really breaks my heart, aside the "Made in China" invasion, is how quick and easily children give up their Fast Food toys. Don't get me wrong: I don't exactly blame the children. I rather blame the invasion of fast food toys. Whenever Disney releases a movie, BANG! Fast food restaurants give away toys from that movie. Every time. And children don't keep them for very long. Result? Hundreds and hundreds of fast food toys invade the flea markets... when they simply don't end in the dump. Those toys were made by almost-slaves in poor countries for a glass of water a day and for what? To be thrown away five minutes later by a spoiled american kid who has so many toys he/she lost the thrill of getting a new toy. And when I do to flea markets, I see dozens of dozens of those toys invading the local flea market, sometimes only a few months after the release of the movie in question. When I was a child, toys were not that numerous and not that easily gotten. And it seems to me my generation enjoyed them more, just because of that relative difficulty to get them. But today, children are given toys even when they didn't ask for any. I don't think that is so good. Neither for the children, nor for the makers and certainly not for the environment...
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