Here is the thread about the Wal-Mart recall:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x832250Here is what we're going to do about it:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=802424#802676We cannot trust our own government anymore.
We the people must reclaim our economic sovereignty away from the robber barons that own this country.
We are going to show them who's boss from now on.
The demands are as follows:1. Every single ingredient/material should have its point of origin listed.
For example, if a product contains wheat gluten from China, it would have to say that on the package. If a company can't tell us where its product's ingredients/materials come from, then we are going to refuse to purchase that product until they can find out. If the ingredients/materials in a product come from so many places it would not be feasible to list it on the packaging, then a bar code should be included on that product, to give the consumer the opportunity to scan it in the supermarket/other store(s) and find out where it came from. If that isn't feasible, some other type of code should be placed on the product so that a consumer may search an easy to use database on the internet to find the points of origin for a product's ingredients/materials. A consumer owned inspections program should verify that all the information in this database is accurate. If a company places false information in this database, then they should be subject to a civil penalty. This can be done through requiring each company that registers its products in the database to sign a contract, and by including falsifying an entry in the database as a breach of contract subject to a stiff penalty.
2. Each and every ingredient/material in a product must be tested for safety before we'll agree to buy it.
It must be tested by a consumer owned and operated lab that is only interested in protecting consumers. All final products should also be tested to determine whether or not they're safe as well. If this demand is not met, consumers will refuse to buy the product until the demand is met. A seal shall be placed on every product that complies with this demand to ensure that the consuming public knows they are buying a safe product. Any company that falsely places this seal on a non-compliant product should be subject to civil penalties for doing so. This could be done through trademarking the seal, and it would require no alterations to the law.
3. All products should be produced in sound working conditions by workers making a living wage.
A consumer owned inspections program should verify that these conditions exist. No product should be made in the absence of a consumer employed inspector. Another seal shall be placed on every product in compliance with this measure, and as before a civil penalty shall be leveled against any company that infringes on the trademark by falsely placing it on an unsafe product.
The plant to get those demands met:We will boycott a particular brand of product(s). We will buy another brand of the same type of product. What this will do is allow us to exert great economic pressure on a particular company to meet our demands, without burdening us very much at all. How hard is it to buy another brand of product in lieu of another? Aside from proprietary designs, such a razor blades or something like that, we can always buy another brand. They can't keep us from doing that, and if they try to, then they will show themselves for the economic tyrants they really are.