Posted on 12/26/2008 9:07:04 AM PST by BGHater
We buy our crawdads from Louisiana.
They just have a fancier name than 'Carp'!
He claimed that the increased Alzheimer the last fifty years is not really Alzheimer's, but more likely as Jacob's decease stemming from eating lots of meat. After hearing this we don't eat meat in restaurants, and we buy the much higher priced Buffalo meat from Whole Food!!!
OK, I see. Thanks for the great explanation. It made lots of sense. The stuff must really be cheap and easy to make.
We get lot’sa crawdad during season. Man, a 5lb platter coated with swamp dust and a pitcher of beer.........man, that's the closest thing to heaven on earth.
But, off season it's hard to find frozen crawdad tails from the U.S. for etouffe and gumbo fixins.
The local grocery store has frozen lb blocks......labeled, “Wild Caught”.
Yuck, I've read stories about the water quality around the Chinese countryside. Wild caught....man, just doesn't even muster an appetite.
Just because they say it’s cod, doesn’t mean it’s cod.
They found it in baby formula too, but our government assures us ‘in safe levels’-no such thing. My niece has taken my Mom’s old baby formula recipe out of the family cookbook and is making her own formula. She can’t nurse. Be careful with Walmart, they don’t always tell you where something is from.
I saw on one of the news channels that they just sent four FDA people to China. Wow that will really help...not.
Wonder if I'm correct that Florida started labeling WHERE produce, meats, etc are from AFTER it got stuck with millions in lost revenue due to the tomato scare of last year.....(or maybe that's just a small part of it, or the last straw)
And as we found out, the real culprit was MEXICO
It may be shorter to list the items China DOESN’T put melamine into.
China: #1 Melamine supplier to the world.
That used to be the case. The USDA has had a beef by-products ban in animal feed for 10 years now:
http://www.fda.gov/cvm/dairybeefprod.html
The BSE cases seen in North America all trace back to Canada, where they imported quite a bit of animal by-product feed from the UK in the 90’s. Canada claims to have a feed regulation in place, but the BSE cattle keep popping up, and UK-based feed seems to show up again and again in investigations.
There has been no direct causal link established between BSE (”mad cow”) and Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease (CJD). There has been a tenuous link established in the UK between BSE and a variant of CJD.
The incidents of Canadian-sourced cattle, especially from the dairy industry, showing up in the US with BSE, had many US ranchers wanting COOL as a *minimum* - and some wanted a ban on imports from Canada until such time as Canada proved to us that they had the feed issue under control.
The Bush administration pushed back on both issues, making sure that the “free trade” zealots won out over food safety people.
As I indicated earlier, Bush & the GOP need to get their head out of their plush posteriors on this issue and kick their “free trade” dogma to the curb. It doesn’t work, it won’t work.
When I first saw the new US,Mexico,Canada label.... on beef packages that I had purchased for years and year at Publix...I literally saw RED!
I grabbed the first manager and started complaining....LOUDLY! as I wanted other customers to know!!..
Before I left the store I talked to at least 3 other managers...
..finally one whispered that he saves his money to buy the Greenwise brand..because yes it is more expensive....and supposedly ONLY US made.
Seen this one?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154536/posts
...but why would a Democratic Congress pass COOL?
My family (including pets) will never knowingly consume anything from China. I am really making a conscious effort to purchase and consume only American products, due to health and food safety concerns, as well as because I want to support American workers when ever possible.
Perhaps we need to demand that Congress require country of origin labeling on food like they require nutrition information. I think the fat and calorie content is going to be pretty unimportant if my food is going to kill me!
Because the DNC doesn’t get much in the way of campaign donations from the major packing houses, et al. The GOP pretty much owns that particular industry and segment of that industry. The GOP Congressional leadership is bought and paid for by the packing houses, most all of which are in the midwest and south.
COOL has a much larger following in the DNC side, and let’s face up to facts: the GOP is the biggest supporter of the “free trade uber alles” mantra. There is a significant and growing faction within the DNC that is perfectly happy to pitch free trade out on its ear, with all attending consequences.
The DNC leadership is from San Francisco, CA (which has no industry to speak of, so San Fran Nan doesn’t have to worry about losing her seat or votes from SF on anything other than the bathhouse and condom industry) and Harry Reid is from Nevada, which has no big packing houses, so he’s not terribly swayed by them either. Heck, Harry is perfectly content to keep up policies which will largely eliminate cow/calf ranching in Nevada and hand the whole state over to the granola-and-tofu nibblers.
Yes, but our Congress has contributed millions of dollars to prop up the Asian (China, Vietnam) fishing industry that they failed to notice that ours has declined over 50%.
Our industry is highly regulated and the Congressional love affair with ethanol has caused tremendous corn crops in the gulf area resulting in chemical runoff. The result=thousands of acres of the gulf being classified as a dead zone meaning that fish cannot live there and are dying off by the millions.
Face it America, our Congress is killing us. These liberal pansies will now marshall behind Obomba who despises America as well as the Judeo-Christian ethic.
Thanks again...!
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