Posted on 04/24/2007 8:04:13 AM PDT by dawn53
Lost amid the anxiety surrounding the tainted U.S. pet food supply is this sobering reality: It's not just pet owners who should be worried. The uncontrolled distribution of low-quality imported food ingredients, mainly from China, poses a grave threat to public health worldwide.
Essential ingredients, such as vitamins used in many packaged foods, arrive at U.S. ports from China and, as recent news reports have underscored, are shipped without inspection to food and beverage distributors and manufacturers. Although they are used in relatively small quantities, these ingredients carry enormous risks for American consumers. One pound of tainted wheat gluten could, if undetected, contaminate as much as a thousand pounds of food.
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Mayway is a Chinese herb company in SF - I ordered from there a long time ago. See if you can google it, if not, freepmail me and I’ll get the contact info from my friend. She’s bought from them for years.
Good to see you too, Spotted!
Thanks... I forgot about the dishsoap....
Eat locally-produced foods. Problem solved.
You know, I like tax cuts as much as the next person, but there is three places I don't want to see cut back so I can have a tax cut:
VA
Border Patrol -- including checking incoming at ports
I do want them to cut out bridges to nowhere -- especially when we have so many more important things
a lot of this (IMHO) was so CEO's could show greater profits and get higher bonuses and make their stock holders happy... and a of people have gotten rich in the stockmarket due to this outsourcing fad, but those same people are as vulnerable as you or I and all the money in the world won't buy them good health if they consume contaminated food or eat on contaminated plates.....
I don’t think eating locally produced food is an end all to the problem. What if one of the ingredients used in the food comes from China.
All the pet foods were made in either Canada or the US, but the problem arose when an ingredient was imported from China (in the pet food case...rice powder, and wheat gluten.)
Even if I were to go to my local supermarket bakery, I have no idea where their ingredients are bought. The food may be produced locally, but are the ingredients imported...that’s the big question.
Since the article says that Vitamin C is produced in China, then I guess I have to be “suspicious” of any food that contains extra Vitamin C.
What I mean is: limit your diet to foods produced locally from local ingredients.
Dishwashing soap. That makes sense. Thank you so much :)
Exactly, but don't forget the complicity of the government in their mad rush to kiss commie butt. I'm talking China. India seems like yeah, they'll take our jobs and get rich off of them, but they aren't our enemy.
Now we are facing a huge problem with the possibility of tainted food ingested by humans. The pets are bad enough. I'm a little afraid to buy produce that I can't peel. My immune system is a little whacked, but no one can afford to get eColi or Salmonella.
I’ll keep them in mind. I can always request a catalog and mail them a check, right??
Hope all is well with you and yours :)
That they aren’t as savy to take credit for lead free blinds?
Just when I think they can’t get any more stupid, they do.
We’re all fine here, and that includes the cats. Hope you are too!
I emailed my friend who orders from Mayway and she says they are very careful about clean, unadulterated herbal products. She’s not a business so it’s not wholesale only or anything. She couldn’t find her catalog, she said try google!
I agree with you.... wonder why the DOW his over 13000 today when back in the 70’s it took forever for it to go from 9 - 10? Huge bottom line profits making CEO’s rich and the stockholders very happy and all at the detriment of the American people who mostly are very happy to be able to buy cheap goods from WalMart and don’t worry that their standard of living is actually going backwards (in many cases)...
13,000 is an enormous jump. Our standard of living is indeed going backwards. I’m glad that I’m not tempted by ridiculous things like plasma TV’s, etc. Still, we live on the edge because of gas prices and food.
Unfortunately, I have violated my ten plus years boycott of Walmart. They have a Bissel vacuum cleaner, and I need one desperately. For 39.99 it probably doesn’t do a very good job, but this carpet is indoor/outdoor pile. Anything is better than nothing.
Now that Mrs. Walton has passed on, lets hope Walmart doesn’t get any worse...
I missed that! When did she die?
Just had an email exchange with a Canadian manufacturer, they claim no Chinese ingredients in their product.
In the last couple of weeks, I think. She was in her 80’s.
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