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Whether you google, shrimp china sewage, or vegetables mexico sewage, the results are bad news.

From "Some Aspects of the Shrimp Farming Industry in China:" [start excerpt] The environment around shrimp farming areas was partly responsible for the shrimp farming recession in China. One reason is the pollution from industrial waste water and sewage.According to Jiang (1994a)about 6 billion t of waste water drains into Chinese coastal waters from 43 coastal cities each year,of which 4 billion t is industrial waste water and 2 billion t is domestic sewage.Unfortunately,many shrimp ponds are concentrated near estuaries where polluted water drains directly,and many shrimp farms suffer heavy losses from this pollution... . .[end excerpt]

And it's not just China. It's Asia.

You'd think some of those smart lawyers who float their yachts in Big Tobacco hundred dollar bills would go after Big NAFTA and Big WTO while there are enough .Americans left alive to have a "class action" lawsuit. They could name Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and Export-Import Bank as coconspirators

65 posted on 02/04/2004 2:02:38 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
"China-shrimp-sewage".

I love crawfish, but in this neck of the woods, the only ones available are imported from China. I wouldn't touch them with a 10-foot pole because of the sewage issue. They have a much greater chance of being contaminated with raw sewage than even shrimp does, due to the fact that crawfish can be raised in rice paddies. I love a good crawfish etouffe, but I like it seasoned with red pepper - not human waste.
80 posted on 02/04/2004 3:51:32 PM PST by EagleMamaMT
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