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Posted on 10/08/2008 8:18:08 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Brazil bans Chinese food products
10/08/2008 | 02:56 AM
BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil says it is indefinitely banning all Chinese food imports due to safety concerns.
Brazil's food safety officials say Tuesday they are acting in light of the four Chinese children killed and 54,000 sickened by contaminated milk products.
The milk crisis is China has led nations around the globe to ban or recall Chinese products.
The ban will have little effect on the food supply in Brazil, which imported just US$120 million in food products from China last year.
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Brazil has a very good idea ...
American politicians would never do such a thing, as their Chinese Masters would flip out.
And we haven’t because...?
They’ll just have to ban them again in an hour.............
That’s funny raht dere, don’t care who ya are.
....’cause we’re not as smart as the “girl from Ipaneema”?
Not to mention they are largely self sufficient in energy, and their music is wonderful, and their women...
...but yes not importing poison seems like the smart move too bad FDA won’t do the job it needs to.
All about the Girl from Ipanema:
http://sprezzatura.editthispage.com/garota
The truth
From Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World, by Ruy Castro
It has already been explained, but people find it hard to accept the truth: Jobim and Vinícius did not write “The Girl from Ipanema” | “Garôta de Ipanema” in the Veloso bar (today called Garota da Ipanema), which was on the street that used to be known as Rua Montenegro and is now Rua Vinícius de Moraes, at the intersection with Rua Prudente de Moraes (no relation). It was never the duo’s style to write music sitting at a table in some bar, although they had probably spent the best hours of their lives in them. Jobim composed the melody meticulously on the piano at his new home in Rua Barro da Torre, and it was originally intended for a musical comedy entitled “Dirigível” | “Blimp,” which Vinícius already had worked out in his head but had not yet committed to paper.
Vinícius, in turn, had written the lyrics in Petrópolis, near Rio, as he had done with “Chega de Saudade” six years earlier, and it took him just as much work. To begin with, it wasn’t originally called “Garota da Ipanema,” but “Menina que passa” | “The Girl Who Passes By,” and the entire first verse was different.
As for the famous girl, Jobim and Vinícius did in fact see her pass by as they sat in the Veloso bar, during the winter of 1962— not just once, but several times, and not always on her way to the beach but also on her way to school, to the dressmaker, and even to the dentist. Mostly because Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto, better known as Helô, who was eighteen years of age, five feet, eight inches tall, with green eyes and long, flowing black hair, lived in Rua Montenegro and was already the object of much admiration among patrons of the Veloso, where she would frequently stop to buy cigarettes for her mother—and leave to a cacophony of wolf-whistles.
Brazil bump!
Is the distributor of a food product listed on a label indicative of it’s country of origin?
But then who's going to pay for all the neocons' wars?
I agree with this. I strongly urge the the US needs to do the same thing. Any food stuff that has any ingredients with Chinese origins needs to be banned.
'Helô Pinheiro' is the "girl from Ipanema".
How many products get through by going around up and down side ways and across to get to the final destination?
They never get rid of something if it’s turned away as not
safe. They just send it back again and again or to another country.
People here in the US have no idea how contaminated 50% of all Chinese (mainland) foods are....I buy none of it and rarely eat out any more at buffets or buy pre-packaged / pre-processed foods.
I think the US politicians need to import some Brazilian gonads.
Years ago my wife and I had a set of Melmac dinnerware. We didn’t realize it was edible. Heck, we could have saved some grocery money. :)
On a serious note.
I applaud Brazil for their actions. Wish we would do the same.
But China is holding $1/2 T in US paper. They could make much mischief if we banned their products.
Thanks for the ping. Smart.
Not so much anymore. Spot prices on iron ore have fallen by 50% since the summer and contract prices are similarly declining. The iron industry is set for a big bust as Chinese and global demand declines in the next few years at the same time they have massively raised supply by bringing new mines into operation. Expect iron ore prices to fall dramatically further and contracts to be re-negotiated. Some Brazilians are apparently too stupid to recognize this as Vale is now demanding another 20% price hike from the Chinese even though Chinese ports are glutted with excess iron ore inventory, demand is down, and prices continue to fall. They apparently seem to think they have a monopoly, the Australians are wont to disagree. It’s going to get ugly when those miners realize that they have more inventory than buyers are willing to purchase.
Excellent, now it is time for the USA to do the same.
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