[Smokin' Joe]

THey didn't really mean to, did they?

I may be sporting my tinfoil chapeau at the moment, but the easiest way to throw a country into chaos is to mess with the food supply.

This is just a test, folks.

The Chinese are not our friends.

[randog]

...the easiest way to throw a country into chaos is to mess with the food supply.

This was the topic of discussion at lunch today...at a chinese restaurant.

[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...

[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.

[Zhang Fei]

THey didn't really mean to, did they? I may be sporting my tinfoil chapeau at the moment, but the easiest way to throw a country into chaos is to mess with the food supply. This is just a test, folks. The Chinese are not our friends.

The average Chinese really, really hates Americans.* But they do envy our success, even while predicting that China will rapidly overtake the US, which is *obviously* in decline.

But for the average Chinese, making money takes precedence over ideology. Which is why the heart of this scandal is money. For the perpetrators, harming Americans is just an added bonus.

* I ran into this in NYC after 9/11, when many Chinese I spoke to, in Chinese, exulted over the attacks in the moments and days following. I thought this was some kind of anomaly until I visited China - it was worse there. Far worse.