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To the Principals of ChemNutra: After reading about the melamine contaminated wheat gluten, and ChemNutra’s deflecting responses on your web site, I found the remarks to be disingenuous, self-serving, and misleading at best. I felt that I had to respond and address several of these (mis)statements directly. On this point from the FAQ: “Less than 25% of the United States’ wheat gluten needs can be supplied domestically” The simple reason for this is that cheap imports from China and other countries have driven most US manufacturers of wheat gluten out of business. The same thing has happened to Vitamin C....

Once upon a time, a rich and powerful father gathered his four young sons and urged them to become rich and powerful, too. Take risks. Push yourselves. Influence others, he ordered in a bold voice. Then he whispered, "And if you muck things up, a fairy godfather will always appear to make things better." Those may not have been the precise words spoken, but this is no tall tale. It's the business model adopted long ago by George and Barbara Bush to propel sons George W., Jeb, Marvin and Neil into the high ranks of industry and, at least for ...