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To: F.J. Mitchell
“A member of the blame America, first, last and always crowd are you?”

HELL NO! Those are Fightin’ Words! I am an American patriot. How Dare you call a fellow FReeper such!


All I was saying in my previous post was: Rodents are an everpresent nuisance wherever grain is stored; eradication of them in these areas is virtually impossible. For that reason, our food safety laws acknowledge that a certain amount of rodent fecal matter in our grain products is acceptable. The poison in the gluten was Wafarin (a rat poison) as I understand it. I suspect that either some rodent bait got scooped up with the grain somewhere, or perhaps introduced into the grain by rat feces themselves. This doesn’t have to be an US vs Them issue.

However, the posts about supposed Chinese speeches concerning plans for Bio-Warfare are troubling. Having said that, I seriously doubt that the Chinese would use something as imprecise and ineffective as Rat Poison.

81 posted on 04/13/2007 7:23:40 AM PDT by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY ( ISLAMA DELENDA EST!)
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To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY
However, the posts about supposed Chinese speeches concerning plans for Bio-Warfare are troubling. Having said that, I seriously doubt that the Chinese would use something as imprecise and ineffective as Rat Poison.

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.

105 posted on 04/13/2007 7:58:51 AM PDT by xjcsa (The "average temperature" of the earth is as meaningful as the "average number" in a phone book.)
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To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY
“The poison in the gluten was Wafarin (a rat poison) as I understand it.”

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.

108 posted on 04/13/2007 8:09:45 AM PDT by Western Phil
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To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY; TommyDale
However, the posts about supposed Chinese speeches concerning plans for Bio-Warfare are troubling. Having said that, I seriously doubt that the Chinese would use something as imprecise and ineffective as Rat Poison.

If it was sold to America, it wasn't imprecise.

Three Speeches by Chi Haotian, China's Minister of Defense

215 posted on 04/14/2007 6:12:27 PM PDT by Terriergal ("I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace," Shakespeare)
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