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]
What about Ester-C?
I just tried to kill the bug in your post.
Thanks for the freak-out....LOL!
IMHO, I don’t think that the Chinese think or make the same value judgements as Western countries. This is not an excuse, but a window into the mindset. The Chinese imho, do not put the same type of value on human life that certain Western cultures do. They are worker bees and some of them are “expendable”. That’s how they see people. This is the same culture that routinely aborts or kills its newborn girl babies due to the one child policy. Boys are more valuable in this culture. So, they’ve created this million man army with no women to marry, etc. A recipe for disaster.
I bet if someone opened up a chain of stores that guaranteed that all the food, produce and vitamins were made in the USA people would soon be beating their doors down.
I recently read that we import over $200 Billion in food products from China annually. This is totally insane!
that’s too much!
what if worker ants from
archer-daniels-midland or dean foods et al
spread contaminated chinese food across the “global commons”?
That’s why you want to buy albacore tuna over the light stuff. Fewer rat hairs. /snicker.
But you have to be realistic. If there was not some kind of allowable standard, there wouldn’t be much food in the grocery store.
Stuff like this all boils down to corporate bosses who don’t give a rat’s ass about us, our health, or even their own country. They dont’ care if our food ‘manufacturing’ comes from some filthy shithole. Their profit margins look great and they will get their bonuses accordingly. This business model may work great for them in furniture, textiles, and toys; but it doesn’t work so well when their end customers are harmed when their cheap approach involves our health. I hope some good ol’ fashioned American lawsuits send these scum companies into ruin.
Fine china.
“For those foods we have to worry about the Mexicans washing them in sewage water filled with turds.”
Well now, that has just about done it for me.
At one time, we raised all of our own cattle, as many as 8 head of those damn fence busters. We liked having our own livestock , and I think it was very healthy for us. We also had a very large garden and my Bride would can and freeze everything we couldn’t eat fresh. She even made her own sauerkraut and pickles. We even caned meat scraps that I would scrape off the bones....nothing went to waste.
You’ve made me want to start up the John Deere and start doing that all over again. Lots of work, but our homegrown food was so great.
I might see if a few neighbors might want to join in and make it a community garden, because I have lots of property, so we might not be able to keep up with the work without some help.
Now, I don’t mind cattle chips and rotting fish guts mixed into the dirt, but Mexican “turds”, I couldn’t live with that.
My wife now refuses to by anything that we would consume that is from China.
After reading several articles regarding the poisoning of pet products, and now pork and poultry products, I have no problem with that.
Thank you for this information..I will pass it along.
I was reared on a farm where I learned to grow things but I have not canned anything for a long time. This year I will. My Dad still raises a garden at the age of 91 and gives away most of what he grows. When we do not practice the basic skills of survival, we lose them..
Thank you for letting me know..This is a very troubling situation. We have little children who drink lots of juices and eat lots of cereal..I feel great concern for them.
yes they are called Amish
the problem is due to free trade and globalization
it is my opion that you can hide the country of origin and import junk all day long
off course your stock whatever that maybe will go up and once as ceo you cash in your options
you will be rolling in substantial savings, i even imagine tax benefits are great because the manufacturing in toxic lands is probably exempt somehow
all in my opinion off course
Most vitamins made in China
I just read the label on my bottle. It had “Made to US Pharmacopoeia (USP) quality.” “Marketed by Leiner Health Products, LLC Carson, CA.”
No where did it have “Made In ____”. I also had to dig out my jeweler’s loupe to read this much. Now my curiosity was up. A Google search found the company's website, and it listed the manufacturing companies it owns - the foreign companies listed are located Canada, UK and Switzerland. I hope they didn’t omit companies in China, Viet Nam, Nicaragua ...
People forget about the tainted strawberry scandal about 10 years ago where school kids around the nation got sick from eating the polluted fruit.
The strawbrries were traced to Mexico where it was learned they washed the fruit in sewage water.
The trouble with globalization is that our imported food is not grown and processed under the same standards as those in the US.
This is one of the few areas where I would support a large bureaucracy to inspect food coming into the country. This, I believe, falls under the constitutional edict of protecting national security.
Five more recalls last night — more Blue Buffalo, Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul, Costco house brand, more Diamond, more Natural Balance. American Nutrition apparently added rice protein concentrate to foods it makes for other brands, without telling them. So pet food labels are meaningless — there is no way for a consumer to know what is in the can, bag, or pouch of pet food they buy. As I have been saying for 3 weeks, I expect many more recalls, and I wouldn’t be surprised to find that contaminated Chinese vegetable proteins have been added to numerous human foods, too.
Truer words were never spoken. I'm sure you are going to enjoy canning this year ... it gets hot and tiring in the kitchen but is well worth it, IMHO. Do you have a copy of the Blue Book?
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