[Flavius]

how is this not

a>) act of war

b.) terrorism

c.) why isn’t all trade with china stopped today

oh money oh ok, 30 pieces of silver is what you can get a lot of stuff for

[TADSLOS]

Looks like food made in China gets amnesty too.

[Diogenesis]

El Presidente Bush's loyalties and close affiliations in this matter:
Mexico ~ Saudia Arabia > China > DNC > La Raza ~ Illegal Aliens > Fatah > Hamas >>> His loyal conservative backers who have been screwed every way imaginable

[PGalt]

Very good article by Rick Weiss. Thanks for posting.

[mtnwmn]

Not very comforting is it?

[jch10]

Coming to stores near you!

[Dad yer funny]

FR *bookmark*

[gotribe]

I just emailed this article to my local supermarket and asked for their China food policy. Will be interesting to see their response if any.

[sergeantdave]

So the next qustion is, how can we determine mushrooms came from China? Mushroom packages tell us two things: The word “mushroom” and perhaps the address of the packer. And bulk mushrooms in the bin aren’t labelled. I avoid foodstuff where the package says “...in China.” Looks like the rest of the food we eat is a crapshot - sometimes we get poisoned, sometimes we don’t.

This is a national security issue and one of the few areas where I support a vigilant and intrusive federal inspection bureaucracy. Any poison food we find from China - and anywhere else - should be loaded on a C-130 and dumped on that nation’s capital.

[snowsislander]

That article is an excellent find.

We should cease all normal trade with Red China immediately.

Our politicians may have been gulled, but there is no reason that we need to risk our families' health any longer. It is clear from that article that it is impossible without a comprehensive ban on all food products from China to protect our families.

[grey_whiskers]

NO cheers, unfortunately.

[albee]

bump for later reading

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Since the FDA is not doing its job, it is up to us to look after ourselves.

Don’t buy any food products one suspects comes from China or the Far East in general.

We the people can put a crimp in their food exports to us by leaving the products to rot on the local supermarket shelves/freezers.

I have not set foot in Chinese restaurant since this scandal broke and don’t plan to again, at least not for a long, long time. They also can go belly-up.

[Arrowhead1952]

See this FR thread as well. It's not just pet food anymore.

Poisoned Toothpaste Possibly from China
THE REGISTER GUARD ^ | Saturday, May 19, 2007 | By Walt Bogdanich and Renwick McLean

[MarkL]

One day Tammy Bruce was subbing for Laura Ingrahm on her radio show, and a guy called in stating that he didn't like the way Chinese did business, since they were a fascist (economic) state, where the ONLY thing that mattered to the company, i.e. the country, was profit. More profit meant more power for the country. That's all that mattered. He then went on to say that he was an importer, and that while he didn't like it, he had no choice but to deal with the Chinese. At that point, Tammy just ripped into this guy, stating flat out that by dealing with the Chinese, he was no better than they, and that he was helping them in their goals.

She was right. There's NO reason that any American company should have to import this sort of thing, especially into our food supply! There are reports coming in from all over the world about people dying due to the use of Chinese glycerin in medicines that turned out to by ethylene glycol. And we all know about the contaminated wheat gluten that wound up in pet food, as well as food for animals in OUR food supply! It's sheer greed, but more importantly, it's greed AT THE EXPENSE of human decency. At what point do we say, "you know, I'm going to spend an extra $10 on this product, because they don't use slave labor." Or "I don't think that I want those imported vegetables, because they fertilize them with human waste, and that's just not a good thing."

We are fully capable of supplying ourselves with what we want and need, all we need is the will to do so. Or at least we were, until we began moving much of our manufacturing capabilities offshore. And I don't believe the people who say that the only important thing is the price: If people were told what's been going on, they'd demand change. I had no idea about this stuff until peoples' pets started dying, and then, all of a sudden, it was an issue? I'd be willing to bet that if anyone were informed that the Chinese were using an industrial chemical to fool testers into thinking that they were getting more protein then they actually were, and by the way, that chemicle is toxic, there would have been decisions to use a different supplier.

Mark

[Suzy Quzy]

Think Globally...Eat LOCALLY!

[anonsquared]

And how many Americans will run down to their local Wal-Mart to buy their MADE IN CHINA American flag for the Fourth of July?

[freeangel]

I hope china gags and dies on it’s own stupidity.

[expatguy]

I think they might do something when a hundred or so Americans and their new colonial masters (illegal immigrants) drop dead.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[sweetiepiezer]

Thanks for the ping mom4

Thanks for the ping.
Does anyone have a list of all these China stories we have been following.
I would like to send them to my Senators.

I sent a long list of links to my Senator a couple of weeks ago about the use of rx drugs in this country.
I could not believe it the other day when his Washington office called and she said the Senator wanted her to call me to discus the situation.
Emails do work.
Let’s let them know how we feel about China and their stinking no good crap they are sending us.
I mean story links, not forum links.
I should have kept one myself, but did not realize how this was going to grow.
I think it would have quite an impact to list them all and tell them to tell China to stick it.
We are not buying this crap.