Cat and Dog toys made in China

**wombat2u2004** · 07-22-2007, 06:00 AM

Originally Posted by crow_noir

I was pleasantly surprised. Normally I don't buy from dollar stores, but the last two years there were a number of things i knew i was only going to find at those places (or i knew they had the same exact product as the more expensive stores.) Well, while searching for certain objects i discovered a dollar store where almost all of its merchandise is made in the U.S.A. !!!

A dollar store!

Nope, none of them here yet, not that I've seen anyway. I just wonder how they can compete with the almost slave rates of pay in China and India....places like that.
Wom

**Rachel** · 07-22-2007, 07:24 AM

My main issue is still the pet food. The U.S. is supposed to be the *bread basket of the world* and yet all these major pet food companies can't even manufacture their own products here! I think every company that sells a product for consumption, whether by humans or animals, should be forced to indicate who the actual manufacturer is and where it was produced. If the ingredients come from various countries, well list that too.

**wombat2u2004** · 07-22-2007, 07:41 AM

Originally Posted by Rachel

My main issue is still the pet food. The U.S. is supposed to be the *bread basket of the world* and yet all these major pet food companies can't even manufacture their own products here! I think every company that sells a product for consumption, whether by humans or animals, should be forced to indicate who the actual manufacturer is and where it was produced. If the ingredients come from various countries, well list that too.

Agreed !!!! And I can't see any reason why something like Pet food should have ever been imported in the first place.
I'm sure the USA would have it's own products in abundance for making pet food.
Wom

**Cinder & Smoke** · 07-22-2007, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by wombat2u2004

I can't see any reason why something like Pet food should have ever been imported in the first place.

I'm sure the USA would have it's own products in abundance for making pet food.

Sure, there's TONS of the stuff that "could be produced" in the good ole USA ...

BUT!
It would COST TOO MUCH to use USA products ...
The Chinese farmers and product baggers work for pennies a day ...
The Chinese "stuff", delivered all the way to the USA, is STILL Cheaper than
that same "stuff" raised or manufactured in the USA.

And the unsafe additives are prolly a lot less expensive in China.