Prediction: poison toys

Prediction:

In the near future, there will be two choices in the toy aisle at your local Wal-mart: leaded or unleaded. As toymakers realize it is much cheaper to better market poisonous toys than it is to properly screen manufacturing processes or, better still, produce in a country with proper safety laws, the toy industry will develop an analog to food. Leaded toys are to unleaded as “conventional” food is to organic. Parents will be maligned and marginalized as “elitist” for paying the premium to give their children toys that won’t put them in the hospital (if they only had insurance) after a few play sessions. An entire backlash sentiment will develop among the “common man” as they claim superiority for not worrying about something so trivial and just enjoying life. “Why spend your life worrying about all the things that will kill you? We’re all going to die sometime.”