More than 18 million Mattel toys on recall world-wide

Fisher-Price recalls almost 1 million toys

Thomas & Friends toys recalled for lead poisoning

And thats just a few headlines and in one part of industry; toy manufacture. And its not just the fault of the factories in China and the companies who readily outsource to them. All in the name, they say, of passing the savings onto the consumer. But we won’t go there today. There’s blame on the part of government too, who should be taking more than a passing interest in what sort of goods are flooding into your country.

It begs the question; how much is enough? Companies aren’t charitable organisations. They exist to make a profit. But at what cost? In this case, I think the cost is going to make like schrapnel and shred a chunk off everyone from Head Office to the factory to the retailer.

Though I suspect the lawyers may be more than a little pleased. Disaster is always good for their business.

I can see at least a glimmer of goodness coming out of this fiasco; perhaps, just maybe, it will make us that much less greedy. Both as consumers and as corporate citizens.