Posted on 04/26/2007 3:27:47 AM PDT by Flavius
Edited on 04/26/2007 3:55:46 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Lost amid the anxiety surrounding the tainted U.S. pet food supply is this sobering reality: It's not just pet owners who should be worried. The uncontrolled distribution of low-quality imported food ingredients, mainly from China, poses a grave threat to public health worldwide.
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Shocking
A disaster waiting to happen...
...”A disaster waiting to happen”...
I read yesterday that some hogs and, possible, some chickens had been fed the tainted pet food. It had not been determined whether any meat from those farms had entered our food market. I quickly spread the word to my children to check whether the food they are buying bears a label from China. They like to buy house brands to keep their family foods bills lower. We will not buy until some kind of credible assurance is given that these products have been properly inspected and regulated. Perhaps people will go back to growing and canning their own food.
Perhaps the pet food contaminations were a test run or just an accident, but it likely has shown some nut case exactly how easy it would be. Who needs suicide bombers when you control the food supply and what goes in it?
So...what does "made in China" mean? It means we have sacrificed much of our manufacturing, our farming and now our food and vitamin production on the alter of cheap prices while giving away our safety and peace of mind.
ping to Chinese vitamins for capitalism
There should be no food additives allowed from China after the pet food debacle. We must be crazy not to see the danger to our citizens.
well i knew i had to get off the energy grid
but it seems one has to be a farmer as well
maybe it would be just easier to join an Amish community
they should be?
like 2 people know about it
and the rest of the 300m are wandering why rosie is not on the view anymore
Meat byproducts?
Wow. ...from the land of Spikey stew! Rrrrrrruuuuff!
We’ll hit the Chinese back with genetically altered rice strains that produce uncontrollable flatulence and obesity.
Its good to meet you, John Conner.
I doubt that no company is making any vitamin C inside America. I'd like to see some evidence supporting this statement. It could be that no major corporations are making vitamin C now, but small health food companies are probably still making their own "organic" vitamin C. I'm naturally suspicious of sweeping statements like this one from the MSM.
Nonetheless this is a startling article, and I think I'll cut back on eating those energy bars with added vitamins out on the golf course. Now I think I'll just eat the "organic" snack bars with no added vitamins. The hygiene standards in China don't strike me as the big problem. It's their contaminated water supplies that bother me, although I'm sure at the western-owned companies they highly purify all the water used in making vitamins just as they do here when making health care products. But at the Chinese-owned companies, who knows kind of water they use. Trial lawyers are eventually going to have a field day with this issue, and before long "100% American-made" will become a marketing strategy for food companies.
If at all possible... I NEVER buy anything made in chicomville. I have driven 100 miles to buy a product NOT of chicom creation.
LLS
Shout the truth!!!
LLS
Liberals want healthy food too, but it’s against their ideology to criticize a foreign country, because they believe American conservatives are the cause of all the world’s problems. There’s another big issue with China, which is the amount of dangerous air pollution they are dumping into the air, which is carried by the jet stream right into North America. Our air quality is starting to decline after many years of improvement, and I suspect that is because of China. But you’ll never hear liberals blaming China, because in their warped minds America is the source of all problems.
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