Posted on 10/12/2007 5:13:52 AM PDT by RSmithOpt
Daniel Gallington: A very dirty story on China’s food
Daniel Gallington, The Examiner
Aug 15, 2007 3:00 AM (5 hrs ago)
WASHINGTON - "I don’t eat them myself” are the wise words of a Beijing baker quoted recently in an Associated Press story about the pervasiveness of adulterated foods in China. In his case, his rolls are half-filled with filthy scrap cardboard gathered from the ground.
Such practices are so widespread that the recent episodes of tainted seafood, toothpaste, pet food — and now millions of lead-base painted toys — all from China, shouldn’t surprise anyone.
Nevertheless, most Americans don’t have a clue about the sanitary conditions or lack of them in many developing areas of Asia and the Far East.
In China, India and Pakistan, especially in the rural, industrial and factory regions, there are no sewage systems to speak of — raw human sewage runs in the streets or in ditches alongside, where it leaches into the ground and pollutes every phase of the plant-growing cycle and all other aspects of human life.
All kinds of wastes are simply thrown on the ground; industrial and factory waste is dumped wherever it can be poured, piled or scattered. The rivers and streams are “dead” and run a putrid orange, their surfaces coated with poisonous slicks and toxins of all kinds.
Rats are everywhere. Safe drinking water is hard to find, and even if it’s bottled and sealed with assurances of purity, it is often made unfit for human consumption by someone making easy money.
Some of the pollution is so awful that it’s hard to imagine: The huge stinking mountains of garbage in and around Manila are simply beyond belief; some are 25 square acres and 400 feet high!.............
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Seems as though the feds are as serious about imported poisons to the American consumer as they are serious about illegal immigration and open borders.
Free trade is awesome. At least the prices are cheap, cheap, cheap at Walmart.
Not just an acre, but a square acre! Wow!
Bring back the family farm.
Yeah! Who cares if my family glows in the dark and our pets are dead. We can save $20 per week!
Bring back the population levels of the early 1900's ... starvatoin ought to get us there in a couple of years.
just damn ...
If it was sooooo bad, I know that the Liberal envior-MENTAL-ist that love nature sooooo much would be shutting down China just like they shut down the US in its endevors. Afterall, they don’t want to appear to look like hypocrates do they? /sarc
Maybe they mean cubic acres — which may extend into the fourth dimension.
Give me a bit of time to think on that one. (/Physics hijack)
Wait a minute... was this the story that turned out to be some journalists’ scam?
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