Posted on 02/27/2011 8:23:18 PM PST by 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.
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I suppose LoL
I suppose LoL
Look out for BondRouex
Chinese “food” and “medicine” should be considered toxic waste.
Another excellent point that's often overlooked. Hence the need for a website that says where everything originates, though I don't know who would embark on such a massive undertaking, or how they would make money at it. It's sorely needed.
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Remember the baby formula the Chinese sold. Killed many babies before it was found out to have been deliberately contaminated, to increase profit, with no regard to safety.
It is pretty scary, the problem is that the content changes often, sometimes with each batch.
It may only be possible with a massive data collection effort which would completely erase any advantage on cost buying from China gives a company.
Cadmium poisoning is nasty business. The article mentions itai-itai disease in Japan (pain-pain). I’ve read about cases where certain Japanese women lost so much bone strength due to cadmium poisoning that their vertebrae began to collapse under the weight of their own spine. One woman eventually “shrank” something like 8 or 9 inches.
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Methinks plastic is a very bad thing to eat. Crazy Chicoms
We need more regulations! Where is the FDA?
Well they can always sent it to North Korea, those poor bastards would think they’re in hog heaven scarfing down that stuff.
Hey, here is a scary thing. A few years back I saw Crawfish appear in the market for $5 a 10 lb sack.
Well sir, I live like 100 mi from your state so I bought it up not thinking about it and did a few crawfish boils.
It didnt seem quite right. I looked at the sack and it was from China!
How could they raise them and ship them around the world for cheaper than 100 mi?
I wont eat that **** ever again.
You know they are raising then in toxic sewage pits.
I think they did do that.
China. It’s not ready for prime time.
Indeed.
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