[tiki]

LOL, I finally had a chance to actually read the story. I find it hilarious that we export good food to them and they send us a bunch of junk, grown under who knows what conditions, laden with who knows what kind of illegal chemical.

Does anyone out there understand how absurd our food safety laws in the face of this? I know how many safety and marketing regulations are put on American farmers. I know how much it costs them. How can anyone justify this system? They demand safe food from American farmers and then turn around and buy unsafe food from China because it is cheap and unregulated.

Even with the cheap Chinese additives it is just for short term profit. How much net profit is the company that put the tainted gluten in the pet food going to realise?

[sam_paine]

Do you assume that the FDA and USDA regulations can be patched/amended/extended to fix the screwups and loopholes they already create?

Why not recognize that this is the kind of farce that more government control creates?

Maybe it’s not the short-term profit, but long-term regulation that has forced food processing off-shore.

[hedgetrimmer]

Does anyone out there understand how absurd our food safety laws in the face of this?

Our laws are supersceded by WTO rules and the UN's codex alimentarius. Our president and congress do not act because they hold international institutions above the will of American people.