Only girly-men are worried about being poisoned. So what, 107 detained food imports from China last month, and that’s what they caught....
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 | |
Bump for later response.........after I get my seedlings in the field :)
For the most part, Chinese companies ain't to concerned with issues like quality control and very few companies in China adhere to any international standards whatsoever.
Chinese production reminds me of the late 1800's in the West.
Even where I live in Southeast Asia, the governments here have recently and in the past taken a closer look at items made in China. There have been several cases over here that I recall of women dropping dead from slimming pills made in China.
Many people drop dead around the world from Chinese products - it ain't the same for products made in the USA or many of the Western countries.
If I had a choice in US food products or Chinese, I would choose USA food products ~ and at a greater expense to myself here I often do.
First, I agree that too many consumers blithely rely of the government -- but what other choice do they have?
The supply chain is too complex for consumers to follow, and often difficult for the companies themselves. The more so when feedstock materials are purchased from brokers on the spot market.
Clicking on a couple of the links from your table...
The Oscar Meyer bacon was insufficiently cooled during processing.
The ham steaks were possibly contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes
The meatball pasta was underprocessed.
While these are bad, they are not the same as deliberately adulterating the feedstock with industrial chemicals in order to inflate desirable values in the nutrient assay.
Cheers!
That role of a State-based authority was subsumed by the Federal Government -- by the constitutionally loathsome overreach and by-centralism's-very-nature despotic centralization carried out by our well-pensioned and well-"connected" FDA bureaucrats of the upper reaches of G-level-dom.
Now the FDA has become a publicly undeniable utter failure of a watchdog. NOT one of its manifold areas of watch can any longer be trusted.
Thus there now exists the market opportunity for private certification solutions, and for honest businesses to market the value-added of scruples and honesty.
Thanks for the ping sam_paine. Revisiting a very good thread...all 219 posts.