Posted on 05/06/2007 7:18:57 AM PDT by ricks_place
NEW YORK: A syrupy poison, diethylene glycol, is an indispensable part of the modern world, an industrial solvent and prime ingredient in antifreeze.
It is also a killer. And the deaths, if not intentional, are often no accident.
The kidneys fail first. Then the central nervous system begins to misfire. Paralysis spreads, making breathing difficult, then often impossible without assistance. In the end, most victims die.
Many of them are children, poisoned at the hands of their unsuspecting parents.
Over the years, the poison has been loaded into all varieties of medicine - cough syrup, fever medication, injectable drugs - a result of counterfeiters who profit by substituting the sweet-tasting solvent for a safe, more expensive syrup, usually glycerin, commonly used in drugs, food, toothpaste and other products.
Toxic syrup has figured in at least eight mass poisonings around the world in the past two decades. Researchers estimate that thousands have died. In many cases, the precise origin of the poison has never been determined. But records and interviews show that in three of the last four cases it was made in China, a major source of counterfeit drugs.
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I understand that the Chicoms will soon be marketing in the U.S. something called — er — “Soylent Green” (I think) and the U.S.D.A. and State have signed off on it.
Tastes like chicken.
Anyone know what it is??
Another terrible indicator that free trade with China should exclude any product ingested by a living creature. The human values of our newest world capitalists make the meatpacking era of Upton Sinclair’s “Jungle” look like Disney World.
I second that!
Having “fun” with this story Dickie?
It’s reminescent of the gleeful fiend depicted in a Charles Adamms New Yorker cartoon of an audience caught up in horror and grief in a movie theatre.
Only humorous to the pathological gruesome few.
The ChiComs sure know how to make a buck.
When the pet food thing hit, I predicted that it would hit the human food chain because I knew the backgrounds of the greedy globalists and earth-first freaks who are foisting this on us.
You apparently do not.
Only humorous to the pathological gruesome few.
Don't forget our globalist friends. They're laughing their butts off that we're STUPID enough to be shipping most of our HOME GROWN food over there while accepting Chicom melamine (and God knows what ELSE) into the U.S. with little or now purity inspections.
Ya suppose this is part of some population thinning campaign the Global Warming crazies and the Malthusian zero population nutcases have advocated?
About 30 some years ago, at an early seminar on these topics-- in Cahlifornia, of course -- to wild applause, one of the speakers declared that "...mankind is the ULTIMATE DISEASE OF NATURE." That quote has not received mush publicity. (Wonder why?)
And what does one do about a "disease?"
Why CURE or ELIMINATE it, of course.
Don't look now, but some may be viewing melamine as some sort of new "antibiotic." And it's NOT paranoia if "they're" really trying to get you.
...and, of course, the Soylent Green process solves the problem of disposal of the rest of the departed.
China appears to only be half capitalist. The rule of law is sorely lagging behind because it cannot and will not be brought up to necessary maturity. To do so would challenge the power of the Communist government for whom power is everything (even more than it is to Harry Reid).
In the west, the voters who understand the need for sufficient courts and laws to protect consumers and to make perfect product liability protections, can express their desires and government responds. We now have Consumer Protection agencies at the state and federal level.
The Chinese don’t have any of this, and it appears their government doesn’t care. If we don’t watch what we buy from China, there will only be more health problems that we import.
I’m assuming this antifreeze/cough syrup story represents the tip of the chinese iceberg. About chinese food exports, the claim is that it involves tens of thousands of unregulated small farmers, haphazardly using pesticides and ferilizers rather than a handful of Archer Daniels Midlands, etc.
Once this starts hitting them seriously in the bottom-line, look to see some enforcement right quick.
Also, look to see this Wang Guiping guy at the next “Bodies - The Exhibition” when it comes through your town...
Anyone know what it is??
Anyone know what it is??
Here's a low cost way to dispose of your hazwaste.
Upton Sinclair was unhappy with the results of his book “the Jungle”. He wanted to call attention to the poverty and health problems associated with food industry worker. Instead he got government food purity laws.
He said (and I paraphrase)... “I aimed for the heart of Americans, and hit them squarely in the stomach!”
I think the call dog, chow.
I think they call dogs, chow.
Now foreigners did exactly the same thing --people from an enemy nation that once threatened to use nuclear weapons against LA-- I wonder what the reaction will be...?
I predict deafeaning silence.
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