N.C. Hogs Got Food Tainted With Melamine (From China!)

Charlotte Observer ^ | Tuesday April 24, 2007 | Milwaukee_Guy

[Buck W.]

Yes! That’s the first thing I though of. Wonder if it’s the same stuff...

[EdReform]

My thoughts exactly. China is a cesspool.

[arthurus]

It’s the same stuff. Melmac is what the plastic is called.

[null and void]

Nothing to see here, move along....^TM

[arthurus]

My wife who is a SpecEd teacher had a student a couple of years ago named Mellameen.

[null and void]

Melmac???

[BikerJoe]

and don’t forget this gem in the FDA article:

“We’re going to become a net food import country, so we’d better have a good monitoring system in place.”

With all the arable land we have WHY are we going to become a net importer? Oh, right, because it’s cheaper.

I’ve about had it. I’d rather buy less, pay more, and have our country be self-sufficient. We can start now. I’ve got enough cheap Chinese crap that I keep throwing out because it breaks. Now they want me to do it with the food!

[abigailsmybaby]

I hear ya! Believe me, I hear ya.

[null and void]

*shrug* Everything Chinese turns to crap...

[null and void]

Contaminated pig feed fed to hogs in 6 states, per ABC radio news.

[browardchad]

China is refusing to allow American inspectors into Chinese food plants and we are responding with more diplomacy.

The Chinese granted the FDA permission to inspect the plants today.

China yields to U.S. investigation on pet food

Of course, by now the plants have probably been tidied up a bit. 

[null and void]

Horse no kau-kau cow kau-kau, cow kau-kau cow kau-kau!

[fortunecookie]

Gee, thanks Bill Clinton, thanks NAFTA, and thanks for the heads up, FDA. /sarcasm

[fortunecookie]

THe FDA is not releasing which customers Wilbur-Ellis Co.

They are not releasing? Just like that? Sheesh, at every other turn they are right there to stick in their noses...

[fortunecookie]

I have to agree, tinfoil chapeau in place, that it does seem a little more than an ‘accident’, just a little fishy. Makes one wonder...

[fortunecookie]

This is just a big cheating scam by China to cheat the customers by puting other substances on feed that appear to be protien but, in fact, are not.

Malicious intent or accident, it does seems suspicious. Add to that the PRC's apparent manipulation of the markets to their great profit (and savvy buyers here), and it's an even odder coincidence. Testing the waters perhaps...

[tiki]

I've been warning for years about keeping the US food independent. It doesn't matter who has the bombs, it matters who has the bombs and the food.

I don't know if they did it on purpose to harm Americans but they surely might have done to boost the protein analysis.

[fortunecookie]

Notice how a bag marked “melamine” was included with the rice protein shipment?

Yeah, woops! Sigh, maybe the FDA is stalling hoping for a Hillary win so they can drop the matter completely. I mean, it would be a lot of work and demand a staunch position...

[Eye of Unk]

I can say with the utmost certainty that I will not be shopping for food at any Walmart Supercenter anytime in the future as they are heavily into chinese goods.

[ex-snook]

"thanks Bill Clinton, thanks NAFTA, :

NAFTA is an equal-opportunity screwup. Clinton got it started but Bush made China a permanent preferred partner. Vote against NAFTA supporters regardless of party.