The days are gone when you could buy a brand name and have full confidence in its product. Perhaps those days never existed and it was us the buyers who were naive about what we were buying.
Companies cheating or buyers and investigators getting smarter, whichever it may be, the list is ever expanding our cynicism. Mitsubishi Motors is the latest addition. They have cheated on fuel efficiency of 1.2 million cars made for the Japanese market. This follows Volkswagen's emissions scandal which stunned the car-buying world since German engineering was involved. Who knows how many other skeletons are in this particular closet. Current news also says that the food industry is lowering the bad food content of their products and putting labels on their 'bad for health' food to say that it should not be eaten regularly. Food corporations taking their social responsibility seriously? Not in my view. They have their own angle to this; and it is profit and greed, not the milk of human kindness. Figure that out for yourself. Roland Francis 416-453-3371
