Boy Scouts badge voluntarily recalled for lead

[RamboLiberal]

Source: MSNBC/AP

A common badge awarded to young Boy Scouts is being recalled amid concerns of dangerous levels of lead.

As many as 1.6 million badges may be affected by the voluntary recall.

Boy Scouts of America spokesman Gregg Shields says a supply of plastic totem badges, usually given to Cub Scouts between the ages of 7 and 8, contained unacceptable amounts of lead during product testing.

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Shields say the badges are supplied by Georgia-based Kahoot Products and made in China. Kahoot is calling for a voluntary recall of the badge and asking parents to take them away from their children.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21139292/

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Hey Boy Scouts - you might try buying American!

[robinlynne]

1. I just knew the made in china was coming....

and i remember being a girl scout, those badges were "it". Can you imagine taking away 1.6 million badges from little boys?
Maybe these recalls are a good thing. people will wake up and see that we don't produce anything here anymore....

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. BSA badges made in china.

the true legacy of Team Bush.

[kestrel91316]

3. What are the Boy Scouts doing buying crap made in China?

I thought they were all about patriotism.

Guess all they really care about is mistreating the gays.....

[Systematic Chaos]

4. I have a hard time trying to peg just what the saddest facet of this story is.

Is it that children might ingest too much lead?

Is it that the Boy Scouts buy cheap plastic Chinese shit?

Is it that the cheap plastic Chinese shit is cheaper to make 7,000 miles away and then ship and distribute back to the States than to simply make it here?

Or maybe it's that there are probably hundreds of thousands of similarly toxic badges floating around that were never tested, and probably hundreds of thousands more that won't be in the future because we just don't learn?

Whatever it is, I don't know whether to :eyes: or :rofl: or :cry: or some combination thereof.

[JBoy]

5. They should make their own badges

Then they could get a badge in badge-making.

[JVS]

7. That would be the first badge to earn

[JBoy]

8. But then it wouldn't be long

before badge-making was deemed to be a low status badge, and then nobody wanted that badge, and then they outsourced badge-making. To Chinese Boy Scouts.

[JVS]

12. I remember that the "tote and chip" badge was a low status badge, but very coveted.

Without it, one was not permitted to use a knife or axe.

To this day I hand a knife to someone by carefully holding the blade, offering the handle, and not letting go until they either say "thank you" (if they're wise to the scheme) or till they've pulled it from me (ignorant bastards!)

[JVS]

14. HEY THAT WAS MY 30,000TH POST

:party:

[AZ Criminal JD]

6. I have never heard of anything so ridiculous

The only way these could be a problem is if the boys were eating the badges like they were potato chips.

[DainBramaged]

9. This really pisses me off, Merit badges made in China?

Helpful

friendly

courteous

clean


kind



and cheap, the new Boy Scout motto.

They can't even have them Made In AMERICA, fucking weetards.

[Javaman]

10. This just in...

Lead from china has been recalled for containing lead.

[Lost4words]

11. I waiting for THE GREAT MALL of CHINA!

I wonder if they are taking short cuts with the 3 Gourges Dam?

[damntexdem]

13. And it wasn't even a badge for lead-ership!

The Boy Scouts of China ... errrr ... America should be ashamed.