Posted on 04/27/2007 6:50:19 PM PDT by mom4kittys
I’m glad to hear this...
Perhaps it is time for us to ban import from China of any ingestible substances.
I think we should ban all imports of chinese garbage.
The FDA appears to have fallen down on the job. Also, according to a story posted here I think yesterday, ChemNeutra only issued the recall when one of their customers, Iams, threatened to do so first if they didn’t.
I hope someone will also be checking to see whether any of this stuff got into the human food chain.
Yes.
Why the hell are we buying food from China?
Blah, blah, blah. Either check the ChiCom facilities or suspend ALL food shipments to the USA from the yellow peril.
Dog food market gonna be wide open when these companies fold.
Guess who will step in to take up the slack...
I don’t understand why we are buying this crap from China either. This food safety thinkg is new to me, but now it has gotten my attention. I buying all this junk from China a liberal or a conservative platform? (Pardon me if it is a stupid question) We are quite capable of growing most of the things we import from China right here in the USA.
FGS we are importing chinese crawfish to LOUISIANA and it is less expensive to buy!!! Ridiculous!!!
That is correct.
Cuz the government is trying to see how many farmers they can put out of business. My mom’s got a farm in N. Dakota and she said the price for a bushel of wheat isn’t much more than it was 50 years ago. Checked the price of cereal lately? I’d like to know who’s getting rich, because it’s not the farmer. If she’s lucky she gets enough to pay property tax and hopefully a little profit, but not much.
“I buying all this junk from China a liberal or a conservative platform? (Pardon me if it is a stupid question)”
Yes. Most conservatives support “free trade”.
I have no doubt that the WTO is the reason we buy the crap. In fact I suspect we have no choice by WTO rules
“Guess who will step in to take up the slack...”
Who? I have no idea.
Thanks mom4kittys for the ping.
I went to the grocery store today and looked at lots of labels on my food. They told what company made the product, but there is no clue to what companies are supplying the ingredients.
Wouldn’t it be better for our economy if we supported our local farmers and fishermen? I don’t understand.
Wouldn’t it be better for our economy if we supported our local farmers and fishermen? I don’t understand.
Who is getting rich on your mom’s farm?
The shareholders of the bank to whom she pays interest on the loans she needs to take out every year to buy the seed and fertilizer.
The shareholders of the agro companies that sell the fertilizer.
The shareholders of the companies that sell the final product, and to a lesser extent the shareholders of the companies that prepare the product.
And since all of that stuff can be done by Chinese at a tenth of the price, the shareholders make a lot more money by doing as much as possible over there. And that is why America, whose heartland is full of wheat, is buying wheat gluten in China to put in dog food.
That’s whose making the money.
If you labor - if you are selling the time and physical movements to do anything at all - then you are merely a commodity - labor - and a cost center, and profits are earned by squeezing you as far as you can be squeezed, until of course you are replaced with a Chinese slave.
It’s just business, after all, and if you want to stop Chinese imports from sweeping away the industrial and agricultural base, well then CLEARLY you’re a left wing socialist protectionist wacko yahoo, of course.
Exactly—we don’t know where the ingredients come from!
ooooohhh that makes me angry. I guess it’s the same theory as outsourcing so many jobs to India?
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