A Year Without "Made in China": One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy.

This morning I heard on NPR an interview with the author, Sara Bongiorni, about her book . I'm really curious exactly what inspired this family adventure.

For those who don't know, I've been boycotting same since 1998. My boycott began as a protest against the atrocities committed by the PRC army in Tibet. My reasons have expanded to now include: the institutional policy of using LaoGai ( prison labor), unchecked environmental and health damage, manipulative monetary policy, their contribution to the suffering in Darfur and ultimately not funding a system of government that I believe does acute damage to the "global economy". In the same way some of us worry about our environmental "footprint" and calculate the carbon "carbs", I sleep at night knowing that my dollars have not gone to promoting suffering and and in many cases death.

Certainly we've learned that food and product safety are not priorities in the PRC, but sadly it took the deaths of western pets to shine the light on a problem that the Chinese population had suffered with for years.

PRC is on the world stage as the 2008 Bejing Olympics approaches. I would the first to agree with Gov. Richardson about using this as leverage with the PRC on Darfur and frankly whatever else we can.

I will order the book and report back.