Posted on 07/09/2007 5:16:46 AM PDT by Lou L
By John E. Carey
Peace and Freedom
July 9, 2007
Few could have anticipated the run of bad publicity, crises and scandals that China has weathered since about last winter or spring. First, pets in America became sick and many died. The illness was traced to Chinese-made pet food laced with a fertilizer component named melamine. Companies in China had illegally added melamine to wheat gluten and rice protein in a bid to meet the contractual demand for the amount of protein in the pet food products.
After that, the Food and Drug Administration in the United States began to take a harder look at a host of Chinese products imported into the U.S.
The FDA ended up barring most seafood from China (where we in the U.S. get about 1/3 of our shrimp, much of our catfish and other “farm raised” seafood products) because much of it contained drugs, bacteria or other suspicious or obviously harmful products.
Not only was imported seafood tainted, but the FDA began turning away tons of other food products – some of it contaminated, some filled with toxins and other products full of bacteria.
Products like toothpaste, chewing gum and even soy sauce were found to be made with toxic ingredients. Roughly 900,000 tubes of Chinese made toothpaste containing a poison used in some antifreeze products turned up in U.S. hospitals for the mentally ill, prisons, juvenile detention centers and even some hospitals serving the general population.
Then the Colgate-Palmolive Company announced that it had found counterfeit “Colgate” toothpaste containing the anti-freeze diethylene glycol, a syrupy poison.
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The Olympics will give the Chinese a whole new
market for their PEG-enhanced-’toothpaste’.
The news will be slanted?
Inside the hotel, it seemed identical to any nice hotel you'd see in New York, Dallas or LA... except for the big sign next to the faucet in the bathroom.
WARNING - Do Not Drink
So using bottled water to brush you teeth rather than the 'public' does indicate a slight break in the "facade".
And the underreported China Dust Cloud
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1861056/posts?page=19#19
In 2005, there was a massive toxic spill into the river at Harbin (just 4m people live there)... It killed everything in the river for 100's of miles.
It went of for months without "Katrina like news hystronics" or not a single Algore concert.
Here's a interesting response by locals as they try to recover the river.
"Chinese efforts to restock a polluted northern river with fish ran into problems when more than 1,000 residents started hauling them out almost as soon as they were put in, state media said.
More than 3,000 workers from fishery departments of northeast China's Jilin and Liaoning provinces released 13 truckloads of carp fry into the Songhua River "in the hope of improving its ecology", Xinhua news agency said.
"Shortly after the release was completed, more than 1,000 residents in Jilin swarmed to the riverbank with nets and other fishing equipment," Xinhua said.
A dozen fishery workers patrolling the river confiscated poachers' nets but no arrests were made.
Many of China's lakes and rivers are threatened by run-off from fertilisers, dumped industrial waste and untreated sewage. Algae blooms can burst out in water rich in nutrients from farm and domestic run-off.
Millions of residents of the city of Harbin had their taps turned off for weeks after a toxic spill in the Songhua River in 2005."
Not drinking tap water is common in Taiwan as well, and perhaps in some other south Asian countries—hotels commonly provide bottled water.
As it stands now, my family and I will be in Beijing and Shanghai next summer. Looking forward to it!
At my post, you will see that viruses are being found aerosolized. If fertilizers were found, I would think it is save to assume, pesticides (specifically, imidacloprid) would be found too.
A massive (looked like 4-5 square miles) of town was bulldozed clean to make way for the Olympic village and venue.
I have a guess that the Chinese ACLU didn't get too many appeals approved!
A news clip in reference to your post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614929/posts
Eminent domain, communist Chinese-style
ping
Why wasn't that the subject of the Wembley concert last weekend?
I guess that it's not a "cool" enough cause.
It would only be a ‘cause’ if it affected the elite.
/sad opinion
I hope none of the Olympic athletes were planning on eating out.
China is the poster child for ills of mankind.
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