Posted on 07/14/2007 7:37:13 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
"Made in China."
Suddenly, they're the three most alarming words in the English language.
Go to any big box store, supermarket, toy shop: When you weren't paying attention (but enjoying the bargains), everything became Made in China, or made with stuff that's made in China, or made with stuff-that's-made-with-stuff that's made in China......
......Consider the pet food calamity. One of the country's biggest pet food companies, Menu Foods, decided it needed a new supplier of a single ingredient: wheat gluten. It turned to a Las Vegas company named ChemNutra that specializes in importing food and drug ingredients from China -- stuff like potassium sorbate, L-Cysteine USP29 and L-Glycine USP28 .
ChemNutra bought wheat gluten from something called Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. Ltd., in Jiangsu province. The gluten from Xuzhou Anying was contaminated with melamine, the industrial plastic that ChemNutra believes was intentionally put into the wheat gluten to make it appear to be higher in protein. By the time U.S. inspectors reached the manufacturing plant in China, it had been closed and scrubbed clean. The melamine played a role in sickening or killing an unknown number of pets across the United States.
"There but for the grace of God go people," says Hubbard, the former FDA official. "That same kind of contamination could have killed 4,000 or 5,000 people."......
......The experiment is underway. No one's in charge.
And what you don't know can hurt you.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
You do if you shoot it yourself. Free range elk. Yum!
Since this situation, I have made an effort not to buy anything from China that I will consume.
I’m waiting on some food brand to go 100% American and say so. It would be a huge marketing advantage to have a big “NOT MADE IN CHINA” message on the package. I know I would buy such a product.
Fortunately, I do know where my next meal is coming from ... either one of my ponds or my pasture or my woods or my garden or a combination of those. I’m not saying we never eat anything else, but we feed ourselves for the most part. Now it seems more important than ever.
Bump that, my FRiend!
peiping
I just had dinner at the Chinese buffet.
The crispy melamine dumplings were delish.
:p
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“I’m waiting on some food brand to go 100% American and say so. It would be a huge marketing advantage to have a big “NOT MADE IN CHINA” message on the package. I know I would buy such a product.
As far as I know, imported products give the country of origin on the label. Products made in the USA typically say nothing. But there is usually no indication of the source of the ingredients.
grow your on food, everyone needs a garden
There’s no free lunch. We’re trading short-term cheap goods for long term security.
The corporations are doing everything they can to hide where these products, and their ingredients originate, where it's grown, processed etc.
The drums are beating loud to make this law.
Only cannibals know that!
A health food maker in Utah is beginning to label it’s products “China Free.” Take a look:
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN0618941720070706
I love the idea of Victory/AntiChina Gardens. I planted veggies this summer in my little plot where formerly only flowers grew. Doing well with lettuce, herbs, zucchini, not so well with broccoli and red peppers. It’s a start.
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