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Animals sick from Chinese milk
bbc. ^ | Thursday, 25 September 2008

Posted on 09/25/2008 12:12:37 PM PDT by Justice Department

Two baby orang-utans and a lion cub have become the latest victims of China's contaminated milk crisis.

The animals, at at Hangzhou Zoo near Shanghai, developed kidney stones after being fed milk powder tainted with the industrial chemical melamine.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: china; chinaisacesspool; food; foodsafety; madeinchina; melamine; pets; qualitycontrol; toxicchina

Zoo keepers sent the animals for check-ups after hearing of the crisis

1 posted on 09/25/2008 12:12:38 PM PDT by Justice Department
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2 posted on 09/25/2008 12:17:25 PM PDT by Justice Department ("Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes)
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3 posted on 09/25/2008 12:19:39 PM PDT by Justice Department ("Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes)
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Just in case someone play joke, I wouldn’t drink the Chinese Coke either.


4 posted on 09/25/2008 12:20:58 PM PDT by Texas Federalist (McCain/Palin '08)
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5 posted on 09/25/2008 12:24:47 PM PDT by Justice Department ("Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes)
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6 posted on 09/25/2008 12:26:58 PM PDT by Justice Department ("Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes)
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7 posted on 09/25/2008 12:28:32 PM PDT by Justice Department ("Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes)
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8 posted on 09/25/2008 12:30:30 PM PDT by Justice Department ("Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes)
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New and improved!! Now with kidney stones in every carton!


9 posted on 09/25/2008 1:15:40 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Amazing how Obama, Rangel, Biden and Dodd all got killer mortgage rates and below cost property.)
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Some folks should just stick with what they're good at.


10 posted on 09/25/2008 1:58:09 PM PDT by Justice Department ("Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes)
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Speaking of kidney stones...

Japan’s rich buy organs from executed Chinese prisoners

by Clifford Coonan- in Beijing

Hundreds of well-off Japanese and other nationals are turning to China’s burgeoning human organ transplant industry, paying tens of thousands of pounds for livers and kidneys, which in some cases have been harvested from executed prisoners and sold to hospitals.”

What do you suppose they feed to prisoners in china? Leaded or unleaded?


11 posted on 09/25/2008 2:05:27 PM PDT by Justice Department ("Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes)
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To: milford421; DAVEY CROCKETT; Calpernia

Ping.


12 posted on 09/25/2008 3:05:07 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?page=451 SURVIVAL, RECIPES, GARDENS, & INFO)
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To: jahp; LilAngel; metmom; EggsAckley; Battle Axe; SweetCaroline; Grizzled Bear; goldfinch; B4Ranch; ..
MADE IN CHINA POTTERY STAMP

A ping list dedicated to exposing the quality, safety and security issues of anything “Made in China”.


Please FReepmail me if you would like to be on or off of the list.

(This can be a high volume ping list.)

13 posted on 09/27/2008 5:47:13 AM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
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The only animals seem to care about are Pandas. They probably raise all the others to eat.


14 posted on 09/27/2008 8:44:52 AM PDT by Dustbunny (Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. The Gipper)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2091726/posts


15 posted on 09/27/2008 8:58:25 AM PDT by Justice Department ("Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes)
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