[6pack] Welding Helmet Question

[Robert McBride]

I'll get on mine for just a minute here for some OT talk..  I have been 
following this peanut butter problem. And getting updates of recalled items 
from the FDA.. I find it surprising just how many different name brand 
companies buy their peanut butter from PCA "Peanut Corporation of America" 
and just how easy it would be to spread something around the country to kill 
us all....   Ok sorry for taking up your time...  I'll go back to watching 
the snow not melting......Bob M



"With regards to "cheaper = overseas junk", it is not necessarily true
that spending more will equal domestically-made goods or goods of a
higher quality.  With today's outsourcing fever, you are just as likely
to get junk from the "name" companies as you are likely to get from
"no-name" companies.  I think back to the pet food problem of a year or
so ago.  Those who were spending extra dollars on supposedly better pet
food from companies like Science Diet found out (too late) that those
companies were buying the same basic ingredients from the same Chinese
sources as Wal-Mart was buying for their bottom-dollar pet food.  It
seems to me that many companies today are willing to risk their good
reputation in exchange for higher profits.  Don't even get me started on
screen doors - when I was a kid, our screen door lasted 15 years. Seems
you can't buy one today that lasts more than 15 months.  Even if you
want to pay more, they just aren't available. Stepping off soap-box 
now....."

Hugh Barber
Stafford, Va
'73 TR6