Posted on 04/13/2007 6:14:54 AM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy
"...sources tell CBS News that the FDA had tracked at least one suspect batch of wheat gluten into the human food supply, quietly quarantined some products and notified the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention to watch for new patients admitted to hospitals with renal or kidney failure."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
From that article:
“Nonetheless, Germany was defeated in utter shame, along with its ally, Japan. Why? We reached some conclusions at the study meetings of the Politburo, in which we were searching for the laws that governed the vicissitudes of the big powers, and trying to analyze Germany and Japan’s rapid growth. When we decide to revitalize China based on the German model, we must not repeat the mistakes they made. Specifically, the following are the fundamental causes for the defeat of Germany and Japan: First, they had too many enemies all at once, as they did not adhere to the principle of eliminating enemies one at a time; second, they were too impetuous, lacking the patience and perseverance required for great accomplishments; third, when the time came for them to be ruthless, they turned out to be too soft, therefore leaving troubles that resurfaced later on.
Let’s presume that back then Germany and Japan had been able to keep the United States neutral and had fought a protracted war step by step on the Soviet front. If they had adopted this approach, gained some time to advance their research, eventually succeeded in obtaining the technology of nuclear weapons and missiles, and launched surprise attacks against the United States and the Soviet Union using them, then the United States and the Soviet Union would not have been able to defend themselves and would have had to surrender. Little Japan, in particular, made an egregious mistake in launching the sneak strike at Pearl Harbor. This attack did not hit the vital parts of the United States. Instead it dragged the United States into the war, into the ranks of the gravediggers that eventually buried the German and Japanese fascists.”
VERY scary.
Personally I really don’t care if the screw America for a buck crowd gets upset.
* The economy is great, and jobs are not “things” that get “sent”. *
The market is great. But our standard of living is shrinking. I guess as long as you’re not one of the ones affected by the contraction, it’s great.
A job is a thing. Maybe English isn’t your first language:
thing n. An entity, an idea, or a quality perceived, known, or thought to have its own existence. The real or concrete substance of an entity.
And if it goes from the US to China, it moves. If a business makes a decision to go to China, it’s a willful move. Thus, it is sent.
Why is it you make a snide comment with zero substance? Do you lack capacity?
It is indeed confusing. We export wheat to China, China makes "wheat gluten" out of some of it, and ships it back to us. I read on another thread that we make some wheat gluten here but as usual the US producers use far more from China because it's cheaper. Well you get what you pay for I guess.
They would be troubling, if true. It reads too much like a "Protocols of the Elders of the Politburo" to me; plus it comes from a Falun-Gong source. Not that the Falun-Gong people don't have legitimate reason to want to make the Chinese government look bad, mind you, but that "speech" needs to be read through that lens.
http://www.fda.gov/ora/oasis/ora_oasis_ref.html
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Import Refusal Reports for OASIS
Import Refusal Reports
option 1: INTRODUCTION
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option 2: COUNTRY
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I was replying to a snide comment with zero substance.
Wafarin is used as a blood thinner for heart patients. Its effectiveness as a rat poison comes from the fact that it is slow acting. Rats will soon avoid quick acting poisons.
The real strange thing here is that the Chinese are making money by taking the wheat from their starving hordes and selling it to us for an unnatural food for our pets. I doubt that bob cats and coyotes raid grain storage bins very often.
I suspect that it is in the food supply, and has probably made people sick.
But people don’t get that upset when people die, not like they do when pets die.
frakkin lovely ..... can you say massive class action suit against a chinese company?
Why has this not been on the damned front page???
Virtually no East Asians, South Asians or Africans have a problem with this naturally occurring wheat gluten.
Might add that wheat gluten is also found in almost all beer!!!
Soy sauce, except that made without wheat, contains wheat gluten, and just about all your specialized barbeque sauces have wheat gluten from malted barley ~ then there's malt vinegar ~ and so on and so forth.
The amount of wheat gluten imported into the United States is miniscule compared to the vast mountain of wheat gluten already in wheat and wheat byproducts.
I don't touch it myself.
LOL!
Just to refocous on today’s topic, read this quote from CBS again,
“...sources tell CBS News that the FDA had tracked at least one suspect batch of wheat gluten into the human food supply, quietly quarantined some products and notified the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention to watch for new patients admitted to hospitals with renal or kidney failure.”
Is it clear to everyone (or is it just me) that the contaminated Chinese wheat gluten -did- enter the human food supply and that the CDC is now waiting for human renal failure?
I guess I was right. A few days ago, I made a facetious comment about the Chinese importing wheat from us and shipping it back after they added the extender. My guess is that wheat production in China is relatively minimal and they have been a significant customer of ours in the past.
Why are we importing any food at all from China?
It’s bad for American farmers and dangerous to American health.
Northern China is a major wheat producing region and has been for thousands of years. People in the North have ordinarily eaten wheat noodles, and people in the South have ordinarily eaten rice.
Changzhou Jiangnan Ornamental Cloth Mill
Chang Zhou , CN 213023 LOS-DO AEK-6095087-6/1/1
65JAR31 PROGESTERONE
20-MAR-2007 UNAPPROVED
Why is a cloth mill making progesterone, an ingredient of birth control pills?
Here’s another wierd one—
Wing Kong Footwear
Fuzhou , CN NYK-DO EE3-1159623-7/5/1
63CCH99 ANTACIDS
14-MAR-2007 NOT LISTED
DIRECTIONS
A footwear company making antacids?
FYI.....mash here and see what China’s pollution epidemic is spawning over there...and then think about importing food products cultivated with all that.....
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Chinese_Pollution_A_Rising_Health_Threat_999.html
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