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Posted on 12/26/2008 9:07:04 AM PST by BGHater
I don’t eat talapia.
I refuse to eat it.
My friend bought a bag of talapia from Aldi's and found out it was from Viet Nam.....she won't eat it either.
I recently needed some antibiotics...found out they're from Mombai, India.
I returned them and told him I wanted an American made product!!
Now I'm suspect of ALL foods...
..we occasionally buy Hormel frozen dinners...
..the beef is tasty, but I sure would like to know where it's from.
My local supermarket PUBLIX..has started putting on their packages of beef, chicken, etc...Product of US, Mexico and Canada.
I won't buy that anymore either!
I may soon become a vegetarian!
Someone tell me... don't we have enough fresh fish in our seas to feed Americans!!!?
China is a huge producer of melamine, along with urea fertilizers. Melamine is often produced in the same plants as urea and NH3.
Because melamine is so high in nitrogen, it is a cheap, easy way to boost the protein readings in foodstuffs. Since milk (and milk solids) as well as animal feeds are graded based (at least in part) on the amount of protein in them, you get a big bang for your buck by augmenting the feed with melamine.
Here’s an example of a legit and safe protein boost that is occasionally done in the US:
It used to be (years ago, before the greenies started banning everything) that the straw/stubble left in a field after rice was harvested in California was burned. Now it cannot be burned, so it has to be raked up into windrows and baled to get it off the field and out of the way of the next rice planting.
Well, straw isn’t exactly useful as animal feed - it is all fiber, has only a little carbs/sugars in it, and very little protein. Ah — but if you put the bales of rice straw into a closed container and you put in a bunch of anhydrous ammonia, the NH3 will bind with any water in the straw (which is typically 8% moisture) and boost the N level in the straw, thereby boosting the gain a cow will get off of eating the straw.
It also kills insects & mites, which is a nice side-effect.
So there you have it: the reason why China has this “melamine” thing going on is because a) they’re commies, and commies never cared a whit for how many people they kill, b) who want to game feed standards, so that c) they can get more money.
If it says “China” on the package, I don’t buy it, period.
Talapia is a garbage eating bottom fish and is loaded with fat, the bad kind of fat, you would be better off eating two big-macs than having Talapia, look it up, it’s true, it’s a disgusting fish, the only reason it made it to the menu is we’ve overfished everything else.
Your reaction is why US farmers wanted COOL — Country of Origin Labeling - years and years ago. You can’t blame the US farmer here — the US farmers saw this coming YEARS ago - because US farmers have seen the flagrant violations of animal feed regulations by the ChiCom’s (and Brits, Canadians and Mexicans) for years.
Sadly, the GOP has been the biggest obstruction to getting COOL passed. The GOP is in the pockets of the huge packing houses, who want to continue to pass off Mexican & Canadian beef as “American” and they don’t want COOL, because then they’d have to pay US beef producers more for their product, rather than playing currency arbitrage games while buying Canadian or Mexican cattle.
Since we now have a Democratic Congress, COOL will FINALLY probably get passed.
This is another example of the GOP shooting themselves in the foot and allowing the “Free Trade Uber Alles” clowns to run the GOP into the ground. The GOP is the last to get the memo that “free trade” is a myth, a chimera, and nonsensical piece of BS spouted by economists who don’t know anything about the real world and how the real world works.
The real world works like this: Commies will put poisonous materials into food, because they don’t care how many people die. They never did. They never will. There is nothing that the GOP’s “free trade” economists can do to change this fact of the world. Nothing. No inspection protocol here in the US will solve this problem, no regulation or trade regulation will solve this issue.
Allow the US consumer to know where the food comes from and the commies are going to lose sales - big time.
So now instead of carrying water for just the big packing houses, the GOP is carrying water for the commies.
When the GOP gets their head out of their plush and pompous posteriors, they might win elections again.
I was in the industry for 25 years and can tell you with no hesitation that known West Coast Mexican labels such as Ocean Garden are vastly superior to product packed by ANY U.S. packer.
(Fortified by most of a week I spent observing sloppy domestic American operations in the Texas Gulf coast area)
OH BOY! Another vegan who has a compulsion to tell anyone and everyone that they are a vegan...how rare! Why is it, vegan person, that a the first thing out of the mouths of vegans is that they are vegans? I don’t care what you eat, I don’t want to know about it, STFU and go eat your vegetables. Oh yeah, and the vegan diet is dangerous to your health, in case you didn’t know, humans are omnivorous.
No, we don't....far from it. Some has to do with overfishing, but a lot is regulatory conservation crap.
That's what I found out about peanut butter. Most made-in-Canada peanut butter is from peanuts grown in China. Sheesh.
Wal-Mart sell frozen Cod fillets, product of China!
It says: "Individually Vacuum-Sealed. Wild Caught. All Natural"!!
Cod live near the bottom of cold or temperate northern seas, at depths of 600 to 1200 feet. Cod are valued both as food and as the source of cod-liver oil!!!
It seems to me that farming cod is difficulty to do???
Well maybe the nuts in health food stores are local. They will grind it into peanut butter for you.
We as a nation should refuse to buy all the stuff from China. It is the only way to get corporations to change their orders.
It is a corporate problem. They are interested in paying the cheapest price possible to get the products they buy.
And Frankly to heck with the consumers.
I won't buy that anymore either!
But lately they are selling meat product under the label "Green Wise" labeled: "Raised without Antibiotics. Raised without added hormones. Vegetarian diet. No artificial ingredients. No preservatives." It cost a little more than the other meats and should be on the same grade as what you buy at Whole Food???
As for tilapia, what is that anyway, 'soylent green' fish? Never heard of it until a few years ago.
Yeah, I have a real problem with crawdad from China.
Damn, don’t we produce anything for ourselves these days.
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