I read that as they want to put the additives in themselves, and cut out the middleman.
It’s been a long week...
‘bout time ping
I’ve been wondering about wheat cereals like Post shredded wheat and such. I called Post’s 800# yesterday after buying a large box at Costco and all the girl on the line would tell me was that the wheat did not come from China but wouldn’t say who the supplier was much less a country. When I asked if it was wheat from the states she just said she didn’t know.
Good. Now if only ALL of them would do so!
I’ve been leery of Tyson for the past few years. I bought a whole Tyson chicken with the intention of making chicken stew. To wrangle the frosty bird into my crockpot, I had to cut it up. It wasn’t long before my cuticles were stinging like I’d dipped my hands into bleach, though I noticed no peculiar odor.
I discarded the mess and returned a second carcass unopened to the store where I’d bought them. The manager gave no argument over refunding the full costs of both except to protest that it came from the processor that way. (This was shortly after the newsmagazine expose` of Food Lion grocery stores repackaging and selling meat of questionable freshness after washing the stuff in bleach/other chemicals.)
I finally read an article that explained WHY they were putting melamine in dog and cat food. (I couldn’t figure it out - why would they do it?)
Here’s the answer - Melamine, while not similar to amino acids, has a lot of Nitrogens in the chemical formula like amino acid proteins. I think the molecule has around 7 nitrogens. When testers analyse the food for amino acids, to determine protein content, the tests we have now do it by determining nitrogen content.
So the food is considered to be high in protein, and instead has a molecule that not only the body can’t use, but is dangerous. It causes problems in kidneys.
The melamine content isn’t really a contaminant problem. It’s a FRAUD problem.
I think we may have just discovered the cause of cancer.
Good grief...what did we eat in the 1950s before China started messing with our food? No wonder our kids have every allergy in the book and are subject to high incidences of autism. It’s no telling what chemicals are in their food from toddlerhood on since the money-grubbing Chinese will mix anything into food additives to make a buck more profit. And of course, the free traitors in the USA wouldn’t like a rigorous inspection system that would have kept the poisonous puffer fish out of CA and IL last week that sickened dozens of diners. It was labeled “monk fish” by those fun-loving Chinese exporters.
I say NO MORE FOOD OR ANYTHING POISONOUS FROM CHINA!
Another reason buy fewer processed foods.
The pet poisonings occurred because both the importers and the manufacturers were cutting costs and buying cheap crap that was obviously questionable by any standard (bags of rice protein stencilled "Melamine" might have been a small clue) not because they were innocent victims of fraud.
If anything, the present Chinese experience with pet food proves that the Founding Fathers of the US were right: a certain amount of government is necessary to secure the blessings of liberty. Self Internet, when constrained by the law works to everyone’s benefit.
We now see what happens when a region has capitalism without sufficient government. Self interest runs until something checks it, and at the present time, there is not too much constraining of any activity as long as it generates sufficient money with which to grease palms.
Eating junk food like Twinkies is like smoking. If you want to put unnecessary crap into your body because it feels good then be aware that there are probably going to be unpleasant consequences.
I don’t buy any food anymore unless I can determine, as best as I can, where it came from.
Well, if people ate better, then they wouldn’t NEED to have vitamins added to enrich the “foods”. (as if Twinkies qualifies as food.)
We can do without toxic ChiCom food ingredients. There should be no second chances for food and food ingredient safety.
If the ChiComs think they can ship toxins to us, they there should be no second chance.
No “it was just a rogue company” crap. We don’t need this stuff happening.
A defective Chinese made toaster is one thing, toxic food ingredients is another matter.
There was a thread a few days ago that implied Kraft was getting some material from China.
I wrote them an e-mail and asked, here is part of their answer..
“... We do not import wheat from China...
From ingredient procurement through finished product, we take a number of precautions to assure the safety and wholesomeness of our products....
The answer leaves much ‘wiggle room’ but we know they don’t get wheat from China.