How Close Was Tainted Wheat To Human Food?

CBS News ^ | Friday April 13, 2007 | Milwaukee_Guy

[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."

[null and void]

Yeah. And we get to play the part of the Titanic...

[BurbankKarl]

Of course it was...why on earth this country is importing Chicom grain is beyond me.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

I think we just hit the friggin’ iceberg !!...

[Paul Ross]

Are you saying that a country with PERMANENT Most Favored Nation Status is an enemy?????

Yup.

Don't ask how many times the warning balloons have to go up to change policies. Unless the voters make a real change, they never will.

Charlie Brown has to learn his lesson

[Paul Ross]

Is there really much of a risk to us all even at this point? No.

Just like a liberal to down-play communist threats...

[null and void]

‘The truth.’ Dumbledore sighed. ‘It is a beautiful and terrible thing, ...

[the OlLine Rebel]

Ok, you got me. Are you calling me a liberal or agreeing with me?

[WriteOn]

China is toxic!

[Paul Ross]

LOL! Neither. But it is a warning of caution about equally egregious liberal behavior or mindsets not to be replicated by we conservatives.

"What Me Worry" denial complexes of foreign enemies...calling conservatives paranoid... is just as much a liberal symptomology as their noted penchant for their "sky is falling" concerns about our environment or food.

The MSM reliably reflects this liberal pattern. They are at both extremes of that spectrum....but there is a consistent commonality explaining those extremes. In both cases they are apologists or outright defenders of "Third Worlders" or communism and, reflexively attacking "wealthy" Western capitalism and capitalists. The Chi-coms are definitely communist (arguably third world), and hence they won't be held at fault. But the U.S. food industry, being capitalist...will be.

The liberal hypocrisy has always been mind-boggling. As for us anti-communists, well, just because we're "paranoid" doesn't mean that someone isn't out to get us...

[Paul Ross]

Shhhh, everybody, we can't upset consumers and endanger profits. That would be bad.

Nailed it. And the importers profits come before those of the truly domestic manufacturers.

Every time.

[Paul Ross]

Probably tin-foil.

Probably NOT.

Remember the old truism, that where there is smoke, there is fire?

The ones castigating it are always the import lobby apologists. Or agents of the Chi-comms.

But surprisingly, the General never denied he said any of it to my knowledge. Not that I would believe his denial.

Defense Minster Chi Haotian

[archy]

ALL wheat, barley and rye contain wheat gluten ~ a poisonous substance for 1% of the white population in the United States, and about 1/3 of 1% of the white population throughout Europe.

Virtually no East Asians, South Asians or Africans have a problem with this naturally occurring wheat gluten.

They killed Kenny! Those racist Chinese bastards!

[elli1]

We import wheat???? I thought we were the world’s biggest EXPORTER! Did this stuff really come from China, or are they being made the scapegoats for some sloppy vermin control practices here in the Breadbasket?

The wheat product, gluten, was imported. For all we know, the gluten might have been made from wheat exported by the US to China.

The rat poison theory has been discounted. Apparently there is melamine in the contaminated gluten but there is speculation that melamine is not the cause of the pet deaths.

[Paul Ross]

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.”

Defense Minster Chi Haotian

This is very scary. It sounds like the kind of talk I hear from other Chinese ex-patriates in the States. They downplay the U.S. victory, and simultaneously heap contempt on Japan for not finishing the job...and being more thorough.

The implication is that Chinese military thinking, in the realm of pre-emption, emphasizes greater thoroughness of the attack. And hitting us where we really live. Also implies since they want to hit us where we live...that they will be exceptionally cautious not to commence hostilities until they ARE ready to finish the job... It would also put a premium on their keeping their enmity down-played. At the very least until the punch is delivered effectively. And even then the big attack may be via circuitous means. Which would give them plausible-deniability to confuse and deter our leaders from exercising our surviving retaliatory capability.

[The Sons of Liberty]

I guess DDT by itself might be bad enough, but he said they didn’t follow application instructions, warnings, or anything else and just dumped mass quantities of it on the crops. That’s a little scary.

[RegulatorCountry]

The word “consumer” is beginning to strike me differently these days. Now, when I hear it, it makes me think of ruminants, or, even worse, the old “useless eaters” comment attributed by some to Henry Kissinger.

[xjcsa]

Remember the old truism, that where there is smoke, there is fire?

So if I write a "speech" claiming to be by Paul Ross which quotes you saying you hired John Wilkes Booth to kill Abraham Lincoln, it must be true? I have no affection for the Chinese, and they may indeed be a danger, but this is a logical fallacy masquerading as an argument.

The ones castigating it are always the import lobby apologists. Or agents of the Chi-comms.

By definition a classic ad-hominem fallacy. You seem to specialize in logical fallacies. Make your argument; personal attacks demonstrate a lack of logic.

But surprisingly, the General never denied he said any of it to my knowledge.

Surprisingly? I doubt he's even heard about this. Has he been asked about it, to your knowledge? And by the way, this is yet *another* logical fallacy: an argument from ignorance.

Not that I would believe his denial.

So your belief in this speech is therefore some kind of religious dogma.

Anyway let me see if I can understand your argument: It's all true, because someone wrote it (where there's smoke, there's fire); anyone who says otherwise is a communist, and you're unwilling to listen to any other opinions, or let facts get in the way. Tell me this: Do you think 9/11 was an inside job?

[FarRightFanatic]

If this article is legitimate, it puts the Chinese military buildup and their willingness to provide us with everything we need for pennies on the dollar into perspective.

[thinking]

isn’t beer made from wheat products....

[the OlLine Rebel]

Oh, I agree, I wouldn’t put anything past commie countries - and DEFINITELY not past MOSLEM countries. (I’m very un-PC.)

I’m just saying let’s not get hyperactive on this, even if it is China we’re dealing with. For all we know, even the Menu Foods guys are getting hyper and going for the “sky is falling” viewpoint so successfully promulgated by liberals.

I agree commie China probably has questionable food issues, but it’s not as if it’s invaded our streets and we’re seeing people falling dead left and right. Neither are we seeing dogs falling left and right.