I saw a vase at Kohl’s with a little label on the bottomish side, and always look to see if they say "Made in China," which they almost always do.
This one was made in China, but that was a different label. This label read: “Do not use with food. May poison food.”
WHAT? May poison FOOD? Is that really the warning on this thing? Poison. Poison? No. No...there can not be a warning on a product in an American department store chain with the word "POISON" on it, okay? No. No.
But there it was. Look, I don’t care what I needed a vase for, if it poisons food, I don’t want it in my friggin' house at all! How badly do we in America need cheap vases that we’re willing to settle for poisonous ones of ANY kind?
The worst part, or maybe it's just equally worse to the other parts, is that the manufacturer and the store know the vase may be poisonous, but instead of changing whatever is the poisonous part, they just slapped a label on it and put it on the shelf, knowing, KNOWING, that many Americans either won't look at the label or will read it and shrug like Homer Simpson, "meh, what am I gonna eat outta it anyway?" and buy it. That's who we are now. We don't care if it's poison, as long as it's CHEAP poison. "I wouldn't pay more than $11.99 for something that's going to kill me. I can get killed cheaper than that at Wal-Mart."
I mean...I mean...it's a VASE! It's like, clay and water and maybe some glazes of color! You'd actually have to TRY, you'd have to deliberately ADD hazardous chemicals to this product for no other reason than to make it poisonous, to MAKE it poisonous! What are they up to? Remember the dog food? Was that unforgivable offense just a trial run?
Not for me, I'll get my vases at the Handwork Gallery, where they're locally handmade and guaranteed not to kill me if I accidentally brush a kernal of my Monsanto genetically modified corn against them. Hey, at least Monsanto has enough respect for my intelligence to deny it's trying to off me. To my face.
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ReplyDeleteIt's true, you might say to yourself (as a business owner) "Maybe it's not a good idea to sell poisonous products... even if they are clearly labeled..."
But remember, many homes were painted with lead-based paint and no one thought it was a problem, until children started eating it and developing behavioral problems.
In conclusions, we have to wait until the children eat the poisonous urns before they come off store shelves.