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Here’s an attractive rubber ball, “manufactured in China”, which my wife gave me yesterday, as an anniversary present!
Who else collected rubber bands as kids, to make a ball? Mine grew to about 2” in diameter, but a friend’s was about 5”.
When I took mine apart, the centre was congealed.

What I would like very much to know is whether these are produced by machinery. Or by slaves.