By: john baker

john baker — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:51:00 +0000

Those toys are mainly made by children in Chinese sweat-shops. The following is extracted from The Guardian of the 24th April 2006:
McDonald’s Happy Meal toys are manufactured in countries where the prices are low. On the bottom of these toys you often find the phrase “Made in China”. Too often the lives of the workers who make Happy Meal toys are anything but happy. In 2000, a reporter for the South China Morning Post visited a factory near Hong Kong. The factory made Snoopy, Winnie the Pooh and Hello Kitty toys for McDonald’s Happy Meals. Some of the workers at the factory said they were 14 years old and often worked 16 hours a day. Their wages were less than 20 cents (11p) an hour – almost 30 times less than the lowest amount you can pay an American worker. They slept in small rooms crammed with eight bunk beds without mattresses.

By: Mikeachim

Mikeachim — Thu, 04 May 2006 21:31:55 +0000

I wonder how those toys are made. And where.
Hm.

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