Posted on 05/17/2011 9:14:50 AM PDT by Parmenio
The flying pips, shattered shells and wet shrapnel still haunt farmer Liu Mingsuo after an effort to chemically boost his fruit crop went spectacularly wrong.
Fields of watermelons exploded when he and other agricultural workers in eastern China mistakenly applied forchlorfenuron, a growth accelerator....The report said the farmers sprayed the fruit too late in the season and during wet conditions, which caused the melons to explode like "landmines". After losing three hectares (eight acres), Liu said he was unable to sleep because he could not shake the image of the fruit bursting.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Gallagher should sue the Chinese for endangerment. They’re trying to make the melons explode BEFORE he gets ‘em with the Sledge-O-Matic.
(Lame attempt at humor)
In China it is pretty well understood that you don’t buy watermellons by weight, you buy them by the each price. That is because it is easy to inject a watermelon with water and the water is obviously not good where the farmers are located.
Guess the market figured out a way to get around that common knowledge and resorted to using the substance reported in this article.
On the other hand, who in their right mind would eat a U.S. grown chicken?! Talk about injected.
Although none to my knowledge have blown up so maybe it is not as bad as exploding watermelons.
It is threads like this that make Free Republic my destination of choice on the Internet.
With all due respect to Gunny Ermey, he needs to blouse those M42s to showcase the Corcorans! Although I do appreciate him showing of the M1A1...a vastly underappreciated weapon :-)
26 posts and no one has pinged you to exploding Chinese watermelons. This place ain’t what it used to be.
LOL,
For those that oppose the government mandating specific food labeling, I support the government forcing food stores to label Chinese imported food as “Grown in China” or something similar. I definitely want to avoid any food imported from there.
Here’s a “feel better” ping for you.
Exploding Fruit ping
Somebody needs to tell Dave Barry. I have an old column (Break out the dynamite: another exploding animal tale) that’s a riot!
After gun powder exploding watermelons, what is next for the Chinese.
China ping!
The line about farmers keeping their own gardens seperate is especially revealing.
“Liu said he was unable to sleep because he could not shake the image of the fruit bursting.”
This sounds like some really deep personal issues.
They’ll take their chances with less than 1% inspected.
SCARY we have such high demands on our food producers but allow their deadly slop to be sent to us.
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On sale now at your local WAL*MART.
No Chinese food in our house.
I wonder if this happens here, in reverse - imported Chinese food labeled as grown in the USA.
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