Heavy Metal: 12 Million Tons of Chinese Rice Contaminated

Time.com ^ | 2/23/11

[LibWhacker]

Ugh. Hong Kong's English daily South China Morning Post has a distinctly unsavory dispatch from the Chinese media this morning: Government scientists have released research that millions of acres of Chinese agricultural land and over 12 million tons of Chinese grain are contaminated by toxic metal pollution, according to this week's edition of the China Economic Weekly, a state-run magazine.

Last week, a separate article reported that 10% of Chinese rice contained excess cadmium, a heavy metal known to cause cancer.

[NeverForgetBataan]

“Silly yankee...free trade good for you....You buy China product for just a couple dollar....make you economy strong... lot of job..Make you happy...You pick up some china yum yum too...American yum yum cost too much...Bye bye now! “

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

I read here a couple months ago that there were riots in China because they sold this plastic rice crap to their people. They know that it has 0% or less nutiritional value so they took to the streets.

Now they got food shortages, drought in their main wheat growing areas, drought in Russia, Floods in Austraila and now they've poisoned their food crops in storage.

Our lefties need to take up the cause of Chinese pollution, not ours.

[Taffini]

made in USA bump

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Government scientists have released research that millions of acres of Chinese agricultural land and over 12 million tons of Chinese grain are contaminated by toxic metal pollution, according to this week's edition of the China Economic Weekly, a state-run magazine.

Well, if the govt is finally admitting it, you gotta figure that it's both true and really bad.

Having 12 million tons (roll that around on your tongue a few times. 12 MILLION *TONS*!!) is bad enough, but if this has flowed into their farmland, this could be terribly disastrous.

Anyone figure they're going to spend the trillions that it'll take to sanitize every acre in the country from heavy metal contamination? yeah, right.

They'll put a bandaid on it and save it for another time until it can REALLY blow up in their faces and it's too late to do anything about it. Then they can ask Uncle Sugar for help.

[americanophile]

http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/

[fella]

“Never, never, never, NEVER buy food from the ChiComs. If it doesn’t say, ASSUME it is from China.”

Watch your pets food too. We lost a really good Great Pyrenees to that melamine stuff the ChiComs sold as protein to our pet food industry

[dusttoyou]

Regretably I don’t think we can solely blame this on the CommieChinks, this is a long chinese tradition. Their empathy only extendes to family.

[Bean Counter]

Good point. Best stick with the Idaho mashed potatoes till they sort this one out.

Is there anything that the ChiComms won’t adulterate? As anxious as they are to grow their economy, it’s surprising that they allow this to happen time and time again. Perhaps a few boycotts would get their attention, but this Regime can’t figure out how to pick their own nose much less address a real problem in a meaningful way.

[PissAndVinegar]

For the Made in China list.