Let's play your game. Let's use real data, k?
Your point is that if x% of Chinese imports are bad, then ban all Chinese imports, right?
Ok, so let's look at the USDA site and apply that reasoning across the board. Fair enough?
How many of the below are Chinese imports?
How many are Oklahoma? Do you think this is a comprehensive list of -all- the 'poisonous' food out there on grocery store shelves?
If you want to make idiotic assertions that I want to eat chicom poison, then I apologize for responding rationally to you.
If you want to discuss this rationally, then I would merely try to make the point that the ENTIRE food chain is precarious in America, from -all- sources internal and external, precisely because it is assumed that the FedGov keeps complete control over it.
Scare articles like this do us a disservice because it tries to divert attention to the 'dirty scary chicoms' and away from the real culprits: our federal buraeucracy -coupled with- the American peoples' lazy reliance on the Fedgov (think IRS, TSA, CIA) to keep them safe.
| Open Federal Cases | ||
| Product Recalled | Date of Recall | |
|---|---|---|
| 024-2007, Chicken Sausage Products | May 18, 2007 | |
| 023-2007, Beef Products (PDF Only) | May 11, 2007 | |
| 022-2007, Beef Trim Products (PDF Only) | May 10, 2007 | |
| 021-2007, Ready-to-Eat Turkey Products | May 1, 2007 | |
| 020-2007, Ground Beef Products (PDF Only) | Apr 20, 2007 | |
| 019-2007, Beef Products (PDF Only) | Labels for Retail Products (PDF Only) | Apr 20, 2007 | |
| 018-2007, Soppressata (Salami) Product | Apr 18, 2007 | |
| 017-2007, Smoked Sausage Products | Apr 13, 2007 | |
| 016-2007, Bacon | Mar 27, 2007 | |
| 012-2007, Chicken Breast Strips | Feb 28, 2007 (Expanded) Feb 18, 2007 |
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| 013-2007, Semi-Boneless Ham Steaks | Feb 27, 2007 | |
| 011-2007, Pasta and Meatballs in Marinara Sauce Dinner Kit | Feb 12, 2007 | |
| 010-2007, Pasta Entrees for Toddlers | Feb 5, 2007 | |
I am not playing any games, and you should probably not invoke rationality as it is apparently not your strong suite. Again, strawmen, this article had nothing to do with US foods, it was about ChiComs and their transgressions. I never once even lightly suggested anything be banned, my point is that we should have a choice if we wish to buy those products or not, and if the products aren’t labeled as to origin, that choice is gone. No one gave me the right, I didn’t ask, the dollars I spend give me the right, it’s not a new concept at all. It is a reasonable expectation that a consumer have knowledge of what he/she is purchasing. This adds no bureaucracy, they have the time to add Chinese additives, they have time to pop it on the label. Thanks for the discussion, I am off to grow my own chickens before it goes to $15 lb. , apparently all the chickens left the US. You would think they would watch them better, heh.