Posted on 03/28/2007 3:06:08 PM PDT by Dr.Syn
Hold the MSG Please!
March 29, 2007
As a growing number of dead cats and dogs amply prove...the Department of Homeland Security will not keep you safe. It will: create a burgeoning federal bureaucracy; give the Democrats a fertile field for unionization and even create the illusion of security. But...it is reactively defensive and it will not keep you safe.
If the U.S. doesn’t stop worrying more about ways to protect the “rights” of potential terrorists than it does about actually killing terrorists...it will be raining more than the dead bodies of cats and dogs on American soil in the future. Have you forgotten about the American bodies raining from the Twin Towers....
With more foresight than our government security bureaucracy, Jason Pate and Gavin Cameron wrote the discussion paper, Covert Biological Weapons Attacks against Agricultural Targets, in August of 1991...just one month before 9-11.
They stated that, “U.S. agriculture is vulnerable to attack using biological (and chemical) weapons, and arguably this vulnerability, as well as the theoreticalease of carrying out such attacks covertly, makes agricultural targets particularly appealing to Terrorists”.
Ironically, “In the mid-1990s, a farmer in China used rat poison to kill twelve of his neighbors’ water buffalo, along with four of his neighbors....”
This brings us back to the dead cats and dogs.
Recently, American pets have been killed from eating rodenticide-laced pet food produced under contract by financially troubled Menu Foods of Canada for such well known brands as Eukanuba, Iams, Nutro, Ol'Roy and about 90 others.
As the AP reported it, “A type of rat poison has been found in tainted pet food...Substantial levels of aminopterin...were found in a cat food sample at the state Food Laboratory on Thursday. The poison is not legal for killing rodents in the United States but is still used against rats in some other countries.”
That’s the beauty of “free trade”...we have environmental laws and they don’t; we have labor laws and they have 10-year-old slaves; we have regulation and they have greedy autocratic dictators.
And speaking of “free trade”, “ABC News...learned that Menu Foods bought wheat gluten, the only ingredient changed in its plants, from China.” (I really hope that this isn’t a case of envy (i.e. if we can’t have your pets for dinner, etc, etc....)
The real question here is how did the rat poison get into the wheat gluten?
The NYT’s reported that, “Bob Rosenberg, senior vice president of government affairs for the National Pest Management Association, said it would be unusual for the wheat to be tainted.”
“'It would make no sense to spray a crop itself with rodenticide,'' Rosenberg said.
So ya think so?
From the China Daily News, we are told that, “Rats across China eat 50 billion kilograms of grain annually, equivalent to the consumption of 100 million people.”
Duh...ipso facto, if you eat or slaughter all of the cats, the rats run wild.
In response to this rodent infestation, China’s People’s Daily reported that, “In the past two years, more than 30 million hectares (74,131,614 acres) of farmland were applied with...rat poison, helping save 7 billion kilograms of grain.”
Just stop and think.
All of these fancy pet food brands contract production out to the lowest bidder. That bidder, in turn, contracts with the lowest cost supplier which, in this case, happens to be from China.
Poisonous wheat gluten enters Canada from China and then slips across the U.S. border where it enters a pet food can in Emporia, Kansas shortly before entering your pet’s digestive system. Don’t they grow wheat in Kansas?
All of this is relatively unregulated. Even if FDA inspectors were on-site at Menu Foods it is highly unlikely they would have tested for something as obscure as aminopterin.
And considering the fact that Homeland Security is too busy pilfering your luggage to stop the flow of at least 500,000 illegal aliens into this country annually...it’s not like they are going to intercept any poison unless it’s inside a Paris Hilton wristwatch.
Wheat gluten, which is used as a thickening agent in the pet food, is also used as: a thickening agent in human food; an additive in breakfast cereals; an additive in the baking of bread and as a meat alternative for vegetarian cuisine.
Now...I’m certain that the ethical Chinese suppliers only sold this stuff to companies that produce pet food...or maybe not so certain.
This poison slipped into the U.S. right under the noses of the FDA and Homeland Security.
It probably is more a case of careless and callous business practices and lazy bureaucrats than of deliberate terrorism...this time.
But what about the future?
In their paper, Pate and Cameron conclude that, “The economic impact of such (chemical and biological agricultural) attacks is, potentially, enormous: within the United States, agriculture is an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars and, directly or indirectly, employing millions of people.”
Can you imagine what would happen to the U.S. economy and society if people started dying from eating bread? Will the next bite of your Big Mac be fatal?
These are the benefits of a One World Economy, Open Borders and Free Trade.
Homeland Security will continue to be nothing but a feel-good metaphor for style before substance until America’s borders are secured and trade is put on a level playing field. Banning a poison domestically while allowing products contaminated with that same poison to be imported is as silly as not returning terrorist fire coming from a mosque because it is a holy place.
Could our government really be that silly?
Ya think so....
August 1991 was ONE MONTH before 9/11? WTF?!!
Checked the link and it was a typo. The article cited was from August 2001. Good eye!
A little of that Y2K math.
Health ping and pet ping.
Yes, that's true. Bad things never happen to Christians.
All they've been saying is that is was from "another country", which most are thinking is Canada because that's where MENU FOODS is headquartered. Not one station has mentioned China as the culprit and none will until pushed. We must not anger our "friends", the freaking Chinese Communists.
Not all Menu products have been recalled. Follow the link for information, and notice the small size of the "pouch" products.
http://www.menufoods.com/recall/
I've been wondering from the beginning if this tainted pet food incident wasn't a dry run for a much larger project, i.e., the mass poisoning of our population by the ChiComs.
I would say that such a hypothetical dry run was successful by almost any standard.
It's true, though, that the new "DHS" won't protect our nation from higher intensity guerrilla warfare any more than the older one could. The Islamo-fascists simply haven't carried out any large scale plan, yet. Even though the War isn't much under way, yet, it should not be treated as nothing more than a sporadic crime spree.
You are the first person to say this online, but I said the same thing to my wife when I heard this stuff came from China: Hey, this is a dry run before it goes into the human food supply!
Her response? Don't be paranoid! But now I guess there are two of us. Strange, I'm not even wearing a tinfoil hat!
This morning we just threw away pounds and pounds of mung beans and buckwheat groats we ordered a while ago that had "product of China" stamped on the bags.
We didn't like it at the time but we'd special ordered so figured we'd just eat it... But after the rat poison on pet food, that's it. Not a grain or morsel of any food product from China will ever knowingly touch our lips again. Or our cats'!
Ah...one more thing. Much of the "news" is sponsored by import corporations. As much as I dislike leftism, the DNC doesn't control the news. Sponsors do.
s/b aug 2001. Click on link for original pdf.
Michael Schenker rules!
Be paranoid. It may save your life.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out it was a test run. And sadly, it worked.
So how long before it's in baby food? Or something like Ensure for older adults? Or kids breakfast cereal?
There's a lot to be said for doing your own food.
Thanks for the ping.
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