Chinese pet food contamination only the beginning of concerns-(3.3% of USA food comes from CHINA)

penn live ^ | May 02, 2007 | na

[Flavius]

"... China's animal-feed production industry, which has little to no regulation."

[Sender]

China's Food Exports Spark Fears

Who's Monitoring Chinese Food Exports?

Food Boom Brings Unpalatable Truths

[EEDUDE]

You sir, are a heretic.

Free Trade is good for everyone.

Didn't you get the memo?

[RSmithOpt]

Not to mention the production and use of insecticides and herbicides that are banned in the US being produced and used on the very crops imported to the US. Why? Because they are effective and cheap to produce.

And the gubberment has our best interests at heart, don't they?

Less than 1/1000th of a percent of all food products imported to the US are screamend for harmful bacterias and chemicals.

Do something fun....try and find the cumulative data from the FDA of all imported rejects that are tested on a quarterly basis. (i.e. tons rejected vs. tons accepted vs. tons sampled vs. country of origin. Want to talk about the government hiding stuff?

[RSmithOpt]

screamend = screened

Sorry, subliminal slip.....makes me scream.....American Idol is more important in life evidently.

[captnorb]

Food is bad......As a manufacturer of hosiery in the US we were monitored by the EPA, etc., for uses of illegal chemicals. Well, the Chinese use benzene and formaldehyde in their dying processes and everyone knows it; including all major retailers and importers. Ever wonder why imported products have more vibrant colors and hold their colors longer? Chemicals outlawed in the US.

[Leisler]

YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE GETTING ALL YOUR MEDICATIONS FROM CHINA.

[Sender]

If one of your workers died from benzene or formaldehyde poisoning, they would shut down your business, call in a hazmat team, arrest you and the legal battles and lawsuits would go on for years, long after you were bankrupt and/or in prison.

In China, if a worker dies, they just get another worker. See what an efficient and cost-effective system they have?

[sweetiepiezer]

Thanks for posting.

[anonsquared]

We need to start a boycott...

If it’s MADE IN CHINA, let it STAY IN CHINA!

[anonsquared]

Oh wait, thought of a better one (thank you, Vegas!)...

What’s MADE IN CHINA, STAYS IN CHINA!

[mom4kittys]

[Vicomte13]

Why the hell are we buying FOOD from China?

[Dr. Scarpetta]

BUMP!

The Congress must get involved!!!

[metmom]

Either one works for me.

[metmom]

Someone on another related thread said that he and his wife were in the export business (IIRC) and that the US sends all its primo stuff overseas.

Which makes you sick when you think that then the government is paying farmers here not go grow crops and then businesses are importing substandard contaminated cr@p from some third world hellhole to feed us with.

What’s the matter? The we aren’t good enough to get the good stuff we grow ourselves?

makes blood boil

[jetson]

No one has mentioned the fingernails and eyebrow hairs that are probrably mixed in with the wheat too.

[VictoryGal]

FYI:

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/medicine/la-na-fda2may02,1,5289161.story?coll=la-health-medicine

[VictoryGal]

Augh, gross!

I am attempting to avoid packaged foods, visiting Farmers Markets, and asking questions about the meat and produce at the local grocery stores. They’re pretty helpful these days. What’s also helping is that a lot more people are asking about getting local foods as opposed to those coming from out of country, and the butchers at the stores are becoming familiar with their suppliers and how they feed their stock.

If the numbnuts in the govt won’t help us because they’re all deep in the ChiCom pockets, work it on the local scene. Good luck to us all.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Why the hell are we buying FOOD from China?

and paying farmers here not to grow food and what we do grow shipping overseas to poor nations...