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Originally Posted by maddyfish
Start with not buying anything fro China. It is tough, especially if you are in the market for cheap things. HIgh quality things it is not much of a problem to avoid Chinese goods.

Because, the Chinese are terrible to the enviroment, and their human rights abuses, on a massive scale, can not be ignored.
Good luck...even the higher/high quality stuff is being made in China now...China can and does produce some world class products, but the average Walmart shopping American wants the low price and quality be damned, so they get what they want and as a result we have a consumption based society and landfills overflowing with plastic crap made from oil that will be there for many generations to come.

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