Posted on 04/01/2007 4:49:58 PM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy
You have to belong to an elite club to even be ALLOWED to grow freakin PEANUTS!!
Ask jummah...
Tainted Wheat Gluten Sold as "Food Grade" (2 comments )
Del Monte Foods has confirmed that the melamine-tainted wheat gluten used in several of its recalled pet food products was supplied as a "food grade" additive, raising the likelihood that contaminated wheat gluten might have entered the human food supply.
"Yes, it is food grade," Del Monte spokesperson Melissa Murphy-Brown wrote in reply to an e-mail query.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-goldstein/tainted-wheat-gluten-sold_b_44743.html
I apologize for the link but rules are rules.
Ever since the first time I saw some fish for sale that was marked as from China, I have been worried that China would actually use their market-dominating tactics to gain an inside line to actually attack us. No, I'm not suggesting that this is an attack, BUT - it surely is highly suspicious. In fact, I would not be surprised if terrorists thought they could poison Americans, and instead killed some pets...
Bless your heart for losing your baby.
Awk! Do I have Melanine or other "special" additives in my wheat bread that we don't yet know about??
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Annual Sales Range (USD): US$2.5 Million - US$5 Million
Year Established: 1997
Legal Representative/CEO: Mr. Mao lujun
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"Imported foods need to go through the same rigor as US companies' foods."
It should, but it doesn't.
Most of the food inspected here in the US is inspected at the processing plant. Imported food just comes in: no inspection.
Scary business!
I think you might be surprised - Americans have developed a taste for cheap - and have a short memory to boot (just think about how many former WOT supporters have turned their backs completely).
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Melamine is also a fertilizer, very popular in countries where the government doesn't want people to have access to ammonium nitrate.If your cabinets and drawers are all pretty inside with a smooth (likely) white finish, that too is melamine.
Yeah, and it's a precursor for Formica as well.
An Inconvenient Truth
Unfortunately, some idiot using false "science", innuendo, and misleading "facts" has already wasted that perfectly good title.
It's in the bread flour that I used to make a pizza crust with today. I mean, this really isn't news is it? I thought it was common knowledge that wheat gluten was a widely used ingredient. Is there a difference between wheat gluten and "vital" wheat gluten?
Anyway, nice to know that free trade is doing such a wonderful job diversifying our food supply, John Locke's invisible hand and all.
No, not really.
What was that a reference to?
If it hasn't already.
OK lets be civil about this. It is all Milwaukee_Guy's
fault. Get him LOL
That is not exactly true. As I live right here in the middle of Rice, and Soybean production in Arkansas (and this year - record corn planting), and most of the people I know are either farmers or have business with farmers, your assessment isn't exactly correct.
I know of no farmers paid to not plant. Every acre available is planted. The subsidies are paid in a variety of ways - but mostly as direct supports.
The only fields that don't get planted are either due to the farmer getting behind, or because the field is going through a normal "rest" in the crop rotation cycle.
But I do agree with the sentiment of your post - I believe all farm subsidies should be eliminated. Let the farmers plant what they want. Let them sink or swim based on their production and business decisions. There are already incentives to plant more in-demand crops (like corn and now soybeans). Allow the market to dictate the crops and production needs.
Of course, the real crooks in the farm industry are the grain mills that make their biggest profit by docking farmers for "imperfections" in the crop (weed seed, moisture, etc.).
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