Link borrowed from WShetterly

[cyrano]

Investigative journalist Mark Schapiro discusses why companies that manufacture hazard-free products for the European Union often produce toxin-filled versions of the same items for America and developing countries.

Of course, this is leftie radical AlterNet, and there may be a good solid reason that companies want to poison us. Perhaps it's in our best interest.

Comments

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Oh definitely. He's looking to sell books.
And while he mentions that the Clinton administration 'didn't do as much as it could have' and talks about how the way that the government is set up lends itself to this sort of thing, he's pretty much just dumping this at the feet of G-Bu.