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There were two significant product recalls this year: tainted pet food and lead-based paint on children's toys. Two issues that concern the health of your pet and your child. Which is more important to you? Which topic would you seek more information on? It would seem that everyone would choose their child, yet our online behavior reveals a different story...
...Internet search data reveals that given the two recalls, our pet's health is far more worthy of information-seeking than health issues surrounding our children. This month Mattel recalled almost 2 million toys worldwide for lead-based paint and other contamination issues. In response to the news, searches for the term "toy recall" spiked, nearly doubling the two-year average for all product recall searches...
...putting pressure on manufacturers. With its export-driven economic growth on the line, the Chinese government has taken aggressive steps to safeguard the reputation of its goods. It has closed unsafe food factories, issued new regulations for product safety and shuttered the exporters whose tainted chemical products and pet food additives were linked to the death of more than 100 consumers in Panama and thousands of pets in the U.S. The measures are "a combination of window dressing and substance," says Steve Ganster, the managing director of Technomic Asia, a Shanghai-based consultancy. "The window dressing is important politically...
During the past 50 years, transportation has become a patronage program in this country. In the name of keeping the Federal Government small (and political risks low), Congress earmarks pet projects and then allows states to spend the remaining federal funds any way they like. Without real oversight or clear national goals, many local politicians opt for flashy projects that employ a lot of people instead of undertaking boring repairs that no one notices until disaster strikes. "Cities and states have been sinking millions of dollars into convention centers, stadiums--anything that shines," says Christopher Swope, an editor at Governing...
...planning to remind people to get their pets spayed or neutered? -Vinnie Orlando, Racine, Wis. I will continue the tradition of saying spay or neuter your pet. It is an easy thing. It takes two seconds. It was really important to Bob Barker and he is the one that built the show. It would be a mistake...