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8 Million Acres of China's Farmland is Too Polluted to Farm; All Farm Products From China Suspect
Townhall.com ^ | January 5, 2014 | Mike Shedlock

Posted on 01/05/2014 6:56:48 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/05/2014 6:56:48 AM PST by Kaslin
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On the bright side they’ve found a way to market and sell toxic waste.


2 posted on 01/05/2014 6:58:17 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Kaslin

This is a concern.

China has five times America’s population, in a country roughly the same size.

That, combined with China’ stratospheric growth is a huge pollution concern.


3 posted on 01/05/2014 7:00:01 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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Imagine! Millions of bodies that may not decay.


4 posted on 01/05/2014 7:00:31 AM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Finally a positive for free trade?


5 posted on 01/05/2014 7:02:15 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Kaslin

And the US has the safest food supply in the world but you wouldn’t know it listening to shyster lawyers, proglodytes, and the old media. I have tested Chinese made toys and indeed they are high in lead. Pet food was intentionally spiked with melamine and toothpaste with antifreeze, but hey, let’s all attack US agriculture.


6 posted on 01/05/2014 7:05:31 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Why worry? It is only the capitalists that are destroying the earth. The Eco-Nuts keep telling us, just like the mental giants that got themselves ice-bound trying to prove their point. The Captain of the vessel tried to warn them but they refused to acknowledge that little thing called reality, especially when the Antarctic is in it’s summer period.

And now they are requesting USCG ice breakers get down there in an attempt to get their ice bound vessels freed because the last I heard, one or two of the other ice breakers were also bound.

Sure would be entertaining to watch that ship just pop out of the ice like a champagne cork when the water under it freezes, somewhere close to our summertime.


7 posted on 01/05/2014 7:07:42 AM PST by mazda77
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‘After three decades of urban growth’ — umhmmm, and after millennia of Night Soil.’


8 posted on 01/05/2014 7:08:36 AM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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A real disaster. But this is what happens when you lose respect for life.


9 posted on 01/05/2014 7:09:21 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: Kaslin

One more item of interest: COOL labeling is under attack. That’s country of origin labeling so people know where their food comes from, and yet, Monsanto is the chief villain on the planet according to media reporters, because they have taken plant technology to the bench top to provide food for a starving world population. Go figure.


10 posted on 01/05/2014 7:09:53 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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this is a job for America's Pollitoon FIghting Team Super Reggie and Super Barry



love the photo gallery here:

11 posted on 01/05/2014 7:10:10 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ( a Safe..and Sane....2014 To All!)
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To: Kaslin
The Chinese farming practices that I've read about are horrifying.Like building chicken coops over shrimp ponds.Or using human sewage to fertilize vegetable fields.
12 posted on 01/05/2014 7:10:53 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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This year, inspectors found dangerous levels of cadmium in rice sold in the southern city of Guangzhou.

Plant alpine pennycress, harvest, smelt, and replant. The plant concentrates cadmium. Acidifying the soil helps it do so.

Other plants can help remediate soils, too, but they will not be fit for human or animal consumption (alpine pennycress can reach 8000 ppm (0.8%) cadmium in the leaves).

13 posted on 01/05/2014 7:12:10 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Neoliberalnot
Monsanto is the chief villain on the planet according to media reporters, because they have taken plant technology to the bench top to provide food for a starving world population.

I'm all for labeling, but only if it is done privately. If you saw the soil of some of these American corn farms and what the growth would look like without the injection of ammonia gas, you wouldn't be so celebratory.

14 posted on 01/05/2014 7:18:33 AM PST by Carry_Okie (0-Care IS Medicaid; they'll pull a sheet over your head and take everything you own to pay for it.)
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To: Kaslin

I won’t buy any food made in China.


15 posted on 01/05/2014 7:23:46 AM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: Farmer Dean
Honey buckets were commonplace in Japan when we were stationed there.
Might still be...
16 posted on 01/05/2014 7:25:17 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: Kaslin

I guarantee those are the first crops they ship to the USA rather than their own markets.

We should not import any food products from China. Anything that does get imported should be labeled “Grown in China; Eat at your own Risk”


17 posted on 01/05/2014 7:25:41 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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Thanks to CONgress, the Chinese will now be processing our chicken. How comforting!


18 posted on 01/05/2014 7:26:23 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people's than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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Maybe we should send them so of that genetically modified corn that the rejected to plant in that area.


19 posted on 01/05/2014 7:26:27 AM PST by dhs12345
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I really wish FR had a like and dislike button so that the best comments could be sorted to the top.


20 posted on 01/05/2014 7:28:13 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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