Posted on 08/21/2007 5:31:03 AM PDT by shortstop
I'm not saying Chinese products are crap.
I'm saying they are dangerous crap.
I'm saying that you can only have trade with people who have integrity, and people who poison kids and animals don't have integrity.
And, unless I'm misunderstanding all this, we had thousands of American pets killed by Chinese crap products. We've had almost 20 million American toys recalled because they were made by Chinese crap manufacturers.
We've had poison Chinese crap toothpaste – with a lethal anti-freeze ingredient included – sold to Americans and other people around the world. Just yesterday, consumer advocates in New Zealand warned that formaldehyde levels in crap clothes made in China was as much as 900 times the safe level. Over the weekend, it was reported that two New Zealand children were burned up when their flame-retardant Chinese crap pajamas burst into flame.
On Friday, the Bloomberg News Service said that Chinese counterfeiters had flooded some 700 American pharmacies with fake Johnson & Johnson diabetic test strips. These strips, essential to help diabetics regulate their blood sugar, were worthless paper. There is no estimate of how many Americans were endangered, harmed or killed by the counterfeits from a Chinese crap manufacturer.
It is an amazing string of coincidences. Time after time Chinese crap companies make adulterated products that dishonestly save them money and immorally endanger American lives. That's all just a run of bad luck, or it's evidence of just what they think of us and just how different our cultures are.
We value human life, they don't.
And it seems that the Chinese are intent on killing the goose that laid the golden egg – literally.
As our nation flushes its prosperity and independence down the toilet by abandoning manufacturing to slave-labor wages in China, the Chinese don't even have the good graces to give us quality products. They don't even have the humanity and decency to meet the terms of the contracts they sign and the safety standards they agree to.
And so we've gotten this string of recalls and warnings.
Americans will have to shell out more taxes to hire more inspectors and impose more regulations because the Chinese can't be trusted. In the name of neighborliness and political correctness we've got to pretend all is well with the Chinese and then search everything they send us with a fine-tooth comb in hopes of finding their latest attempt to defraud and deceive.
Well screw that.
This isn't a matter to be settled at the border, this is something to handle at the cash register.
In the words of the ancient Romans -- “caveat emptor.” That means, “Don't buy anything from China.”
And that's what Americans ought to do.
Individuals and families ought to put some value on their safety and their patriotism. “Country of origin” ought to start meaning something. Buy American when you can, from our friends when you must, from our enemies never.
And China is our enemy.
By any understanding of the word, the posture of the Chinese government and industrial establishment is antagonistic to the people, prosperity, government and industry of the United States. This long run of recalls is an insight into the Chinese world view and their fundamental disregard for our country and people. What might in smaller proportion be explained by sloppiness or incompetence can only be accounted for by willful disregard and deception. They're not idiots, they're crooks – crooks who are willing to endanger countless innocent people around the globe to put more filthy lucre in their pockets.
The Chinese government is, of course, seeing the world's recoil from its tainted products as some sort of trade-war stunt, or some racist revulsion to their national identity. They claim they are the victims in all this. They claim that other governments are trying to damage their profit streams.
Well, it wasn't some foreign government that put a poisonous chemical in rice flower in order to cheat the tests for protein content. It wasn't some foreign government that put poisonous anti-freeze in toothpaste in order to avoid paying for a wholesome and costlier ingredient. It wasn't some foreign government that systematically used poisonous lead paint on toys destined for millions of children across the world. It wasn't some foreign government that made counterfeit test strips and snuck them into the supply stream.
It was China.
And we can do something about that.
We can turn over the products we buy and find out where they're from. We can make the resolution to do all we can to avoid Chinese products.
Granted, Chinese hegemony of world commerce leaves their country as the only source for some useful products. In some situations, you are forced to buy the Chinese product or go without.
But there are still some situations in which non-Chinese products are available. Whenever possible, buy them. Whenever possible, avoid buying things made in China. Whenever possible, avoid putting money in the pocket of a country whose trade practices have been ruinous to your own homeland.
Buy American when you can, buy from our friends when you must, buy from our enemies never.
And right now, China is our enemy.
And so are its products.
Neither you nor your country can afford your continued support of made-in-China crap.
they call it “night soil.”
Here Here!
I am now China obsessed. I check everything I buy. Some items don’t matter but a lot do.
I’ve heard the difference in odor that the Chinese (and Asians in general) are referring to in re Westerners is that of dairy. Westerners consume milk, cheese and butter in fairly large quantities, ingredients that are pretty rare in East Asian cooking.
Big nosed, butter smelling, hairy barbarians-R-US!
Beware of Walmart!
A lot of their ‘Great Value’ brand foods are produced in China.
And item like cornstarch and baking soda do not say where they are from.
After spending 3 weeks in Asia, you fly into the US and everything is bright, clean and fresh smelling.
Its like when you switched from VCRs to DVDs.
America is a country club and its good to be a member!
You know the “American Doll” collection that all young girls are wild about these days. All of the “American” dolls are made in China. It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
I know, it’s very scary. The fruits are marked with country of origin. Harder to figure out with veggies and meats. We go to a local fishmonger who knows where his fish come from, but it’s more expensive. Better than farm raised Chinese $#!+ cakes though.
I have become a huge Kimchee fan as well.
I really dig bulgogi and lettuce wraps.
I made it with sticky rice. I have not attempted to make kimchee yet. I am not that daring.
So the pets dying was just a part of ratcheting up the pressure on China?
You are mistaken my friend. You do not understand the mentality of a third world culture. The motto is ‘if you can get away with it, its o.k.” They have no moral compass. This will not stop. They will clean up their act for a while and then go back to the same old ways.
Hundreds of thousands of little farmers in China are not all gonna play by the rules. Bribery is o.k. if you can get away with it.
These should all be American made.
This one’s made in Japan.
Because obviously, the answer to every problem is more government intrusion into our lives.
It is the government who foice this stuff upon us in the first place a the age of 5 or 6 I remember my mother talking about pretty color dishes made lead paint and throwing them out they came from China it was rare in those days 1950.
I remember hearing stories of people from the old country (Europe)when they came back from a visit had to let go at customs some of their favorite treats or foods.
Yet look at today all is forgot by many of these Gen X-Y-Z'ers many are so dumb down and they think they need to re invent the wheel!
Than south of the border we have Mexico who many still use outhouses and some of out foods are coming from there.
Farmers Use Human Urine as Fertilizers, Pesticide
People forget all of the health issues America had before indoor plumbing with tape worm and other things!
I was in retail in ‘01 during the time China held our Air Force guy hostage for about 3 weeks.
You would not believe how many people came in the store and if they saw ‘Made in China’ put the item back down and walked off in a huff.
I emailed Walmart several weeks ago, asking where their green beans and baking soda are produced and they never answered back.
A mouse from China? I can live with that. But food?
Not on your life. I have thrown out several cans of manderin oranges that were from China.
VERY FEW, since there are little to no alternatives at this point, because pretty much every corporation has already chased the almighty profit to China.
“Buy US raised garlic.”
Yes! I have Christopher Ranch garlic in my fridge. I’ll never go back to buying the bulk garlic, there is no country of origin on that garlic.
http://www.christopherranch.com/
Their garlic may be fine, but watch out for their ginger:
http://www.perishablepundit.com/DailyPundit/2007/July/pundit070731-1.htm
Well that totally sucks. I’m gonna call them and complain. Here is a picture of how you can tell the differance between real garlic and Chinese garlic.
http://www.christopherranch.com/images/gra-garlic_compare.jpg
Non-Nestle? Are you boycotting over the formula scandal, or have they done something else dreadful lately?
A little more digging finds this article:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/18/HOGUOMEA541.DTL
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