Posted on 11/25/2007 11:15:53 AM PST by JACKRUSSELL
For years people have been planning on how to sink Africa, but can we sink China instead?
Chinese coffee beans will end up in your can of Folger’s but not in your cup at Starbucks.
10 cents a pound? Puhleeze...
Tell Africa not to worry-it won’t be long until methyl ethyl ketone, lacquer thinner, lead or some other such treat shows up in Chinese coffee
Your decaf prolly already uses methylene chloride to remove the caffeine.
One of the first post-war Vietnamese commodities to become globally successful was its native coffee crop. Not sure of the whole story but getting that huge source online caused a drop in global prices. VN is still the number 2 or 3 coffee producer in the world, and VN beans are in all the major blends.
As for Chinese coffee that was originally produced to buy Soviet arms, I want nothing to do with it or with any other consumable Chinese product.
Another “surprise issue” for our bumbling Congress to deal with in 2008: proper country labeling for all imported food goods.
Interesting, thanks!
Houston is the top import of Chinese coffee.
Absolutely; yet we have heard NOTHING mentioned about this issue on anyones campaign.
Currently, there is no requirement for any "American" company to list what ingredients in thier product came from where.
Our processed food supply is no longer secure, you'd be hard pressed to find ANY product on the store shelf that doesn't contain something made in China, with the exception of locally grown fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh meats.
So, if you want to ensure that you aren't eating anything imported from china, stick to the fresh stuff, and even then be very careful, ask where it came from if it's not labeled.
Why would you think that? They are already more than willing to pay $5 for a cup of something that tastes like the water used to put out a pile of burned stinky socks.
Chinese coffee would be an improvement in taste, and at 10 cents a pound, Starbucks would rake in even more profits. It wouldn't surprise me if they raised the price for this "rare" Chinese coffee. (in a made in china paper cup w/ a made in china stir stick w/added chemical whitener.
I am stunned anyone would start a business in China. Other then costing jobs to the civilized world, the Chinese government can swoop on and claim private property for “the people.” Just like what happened in Cuba. In fact Socialist countries have a pretty consistant track record of doing this.
When this happens, and we all know it will, will those companies be begging their respective governments for a bailout after losing trillions of total dollars? In otherwords, will the taxpayers have to pay for this outsourcing? Remember the Mexican bailout.
decaf coffee-about as useful as non alcholic beer. Why bother drinking either?
Refuse anything consumable from China! Working hard to delete “anything made in China” from our buy list, but its very difficult to do.
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