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Post by countrygal on Sept 29, 2008 12:29:06 GMT -5
This is really scary, but I was just reading an article and a lot of the candy we eat here in the US is made in China. Snickers, M&M's, even Oreo cookies. I know Cadbury had to recall some of their chocolate. These companies all moved to China to use their cheap labor, but I guess they're seeing what the trade off is. This is another reason to support you local farms! I do not want to see US farms go out of business so that our food comes from places like China!
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Post by Clipper on Sept 29, 2008 13:11:18 GMT -5
God Damn!!! We need to picket Washington DC. This is the last straw!! OREOS MADE IN CHINA??? We need to straighten that out like right now!! LOL
Serously, I always support my local farmers. I seldom buy fresh produce at the supermarket. We have some wonderful produce markets here that are open year around. The quality is just so much better than the grade of stuff you get at Krogers or Walmart, and the prices are cheaper in most cases also. When some are eating those titty pink, tasteless, hothouse tomatoes, our produce market has great big bright red, juicy and tasty tomatoes almost all year. I think late Dec and January are the only months when he doesn't have farm grown tomatoes.
We buy milk at Walmart or Food City because we do not have a dairy industry here locally. It is all beef cows around here. Our milk is trucked in from Knoxville and from Roanoke Va.
Heck if the milk gets tainted around central NY at least we know ONE farm where we can get some clean and wholesome milk, haha. (then there is always that alternative. Lesbian milk, LOLOLOL)
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Post by dgriffin on Sept 29, 2008 15:13:23 GMT -5
Uh ... I won't ask about L-Milk. I've been wondering the same, CG, since I first heard of the Chinese tainted milk. Even if the final product doesn't come from China, often some ingredients will. Lowest bidder, etc. Food advocates and farmers have been telling us for years that we should be more careful about our food.
By the way, I wouldn't use the word "tainted," Clipp. "Tainted" sounds like something happened to it by mistake, where in fact the bastards are poisoning it with industrial fillers.
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Post by countrygal on Sept 29, 2008 15:25:57 GMT -5
Well I used the word "tainted", but it means "polluted or poisoned" so I think it applies. I don't know what kind of testing they do on milk over there or on any other food either. I wonder what their standards are for safety. They don't do a good job with their environment that's for sure!
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Post by Clipper on Sept 29, 2008 15:37:35 GMT -5
It is my impression that the whole damn country is a toxic waste dump. I guess the water, the soil and the air are all just terribly polluted, and they don't seem to care or do much about it.
Some of our athletes wore masks to avoid the smog and polluted air in Beijing. But that is a huge and overpopulated city. I guess the industrial air pollution is ridiculous and not controlled to any major extent all over the country.
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Post by countrygal on Sept 29, 2008 16:17:50 GMT -5
My mother and sister in law went there just before the Olympics. They said it is very polluted. I read a huge article in National Geographic about China. It was very interesting. There is one village that has a huge number of it's population that has cancer from the drinking water. The river flows through one of the bigger cities and gets dumped in and the village downstream drinks it. In their rush to build buildings, they are digging up artifacts that are 1000's of years old and throwing the stuff out. They have a long way to go to clean up their country!!
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Post by jon hynes on Sept 29, 2008 16:23:32 GMT -5
Hey take it easy. As long as you use the proper OSHA approved Compliant Safety precautions, there's absolutely no problem at all.  |
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Post by jon hynes on Sept 29, 2008 16:26:53 GMT -5
And proper breathing apparatus.  |
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Post by jon hynes on Sept 29, 2008 16:30:19 GMT -5
Hard Hats need to be used on Construction Sites  |
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Post by jon hynes on Sept 29, 2008 16:32:21 GMT -5
And OSHA approved Scaffolding  |
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Post by dgriffin on Sept 29, 2008 17:24:26 GMT -5
Country Gal, sorry for the mis-attribution and I yield to your definition.  |
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Post by dgriffin on Sept 29, 2008 17:55:36 GMT -5
 Photo Essay: China’s Poisoned Milk Scandal"China’s latest consumer disaster—involving unsafe milk that has sickened more than 50,000 children—suggests that, for the Chinese people, excessive government secrecy and lax regulatory oversight has become a deadly illness." You have to sign up (free), but well worth it. www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4477Fast Food in China (only kidding!)  |
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Post by concerned on Oct 27, 2008 9:02:57 GMT -5
now there is tainted eggs. They are coming from Eastern China.
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