May they all burn in hell!!!
Grow your own. Shop local farm markets. Learn to bake your own bread with flour from trusted companies such as King Arthur. Raise a few laying hens, maybe a milk cow or a goat if you have the room. Buy some whole cream and I’ll show you how to make your own butter. Learn to can, dry and preserve the harvest. Invest in a meat smoker. Learn to hunt and/or fish. Plenty-o-grub all around us to eat. (Well, not in the city, of course...but we’ll share. A little.)
I WELCOME a return to simpler, more self-reliant times. In two short generations, we’ve become helpless slaves to imported foodstuffs. :)
And don’t forget to keep plenty of dry socks and ammo on hand. ;)
Thanks for posting.
The elephant not mentioned in the article is that the politicians need the money recycled from the trade deficit to fund the budget deficit. It keeps demand for US treasuries up and rates down.
Everyone wails about how awful it is, but no one is really willing to give up their trips to Sam Walton's Super Number One China Importatorium.
May they all burn in hell!!!
No FDA. No Reg PA Dept of Agriculture. The CIA is delusional. No border control. Border Agents jailed for acting like border agents.
And now -- no more Customs enforcement.
Trust and no verify our new world order masters.
We are on our own. It's a market opportunity, really.
Bad Food from China ping.
Excellent article, thanks for posting it, Flavius.
Just checked CostCo’s canned mushrooms. They carry a brand called Pennsylvania Dutchman. The label has a picture of a map of the United States.
Looking more carefully at the label, it also says: PRODUCT OF CHINA.
I am returning the case of canned mushrooms on my next visit.
Rightwing Librarian
Maybe instead of rejecting bad food, we should send boatloads of illegal aliens from our farms to help the Chinese improve their agricultural output. And ship the entire illegal family, so they don’t have to worry about being split up.
The enemies of the USA should be paying the salaries of all “our? ;-)” government officials. They do serve them well.
It’s not just china. As one of the first 140 organic farmers to be certified by the state of Texas, I can tell you that the lettuce and other foodstuffs coming from Mexico are laced with as many as eleven different pesticides banned in the US. (At the time there was only about one head of lettuce in 1100 tested for such at the Texas/Mexico border.) After that, we only need to worry about Chile, and all the other latin American countries that produce our food.
The problem with a viable organic food industry in the US is that our product looks no different than non-organic, but costs more to produce due to lack of pesticides, chemicals, etc. Oftentimes it lookes worse. If one can’t afford organic food that has been certified, at least one should buy the apples and other foods that have blemishes on the outside chance it missed being adulterated, then peel everything that can be peeled, and wash the heck out of the rest.
Ping
Due to P.C. concerns and plain old corporate greed (sanctioned by both parties), we Americans can no longer conduct our own affairs much less those of the "Wonderful" country of China.
Does anyone out there understand how absurd our food safety laws in the face of this? I know how many safety and marketing regulations are put on American farmers. I know how much it costs them. How can anyone justify this system? They demand safe food from American farmers and then turn around and buy unsafe food from China because it is cheap and unregulated.
Even with the cheap Chinese additives it is just for short term profit. How much net profit is the company that put the tainted gluten in the pet food going to realise?
>>>>Tony Corbo, a lobbyist for Food and Water Watch, a Washington advocacy group, said that finding - which is not subject to outside review - is unbelievable, given repeated findings of unsanitary conditions at China’s chicken slaughterhouses. Corbo said he has seen some of those audits. “Everyone who has seen them was grossed out,” he said.<<<<
must be pretty bad.
american slaughter houses are not a pretty sight.
IMO, George W. Bush will go down in History as the worst President America ever had.
Answer: Greed.
People have also gotten sick on food items from Mexico. This is a good way for bio terrorism. It already happened once in the US, carried out here by immigrants, some illegal, in a West Coast community (Oregon?).