Chinese Chasm.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 11:23PM 
What’s really going on behind China’s iron curtain? Talk about being hypocritical. China kicks out Starbucks because they are afraid it will destroy their culture and restricts internet usage as well as bars Google from its citizens but they can send us contaminated foods. It’s funny (in a crazy way) how the U.S. government has a trade embargo on Cuba and classifies it’s citizens as barbarians. However, they keep their tongues up China’s ass yet China has done more harm to our citizens through their contaminated, sub-standard goods they’ve exported to America than Cuba will ever have the opportunity to do.
What is this hypocrisy all about? Money and racism. Eventually, China will be a new world power and America wants to get in on the ground floor. Everyone from Mastercard, to Wal-mart to Harley Davidson has been trying to bust China open at the seams but with Cuba there’s no real profit to be gained as well as Cuba is full of them dirty black Cubans. The only thing America has itchy fingers for is the 240 million barrels of oil that’s in Cuba’s territory that China has shown interest in.
When you find out the substandard ways the Chinese prepare their goods to be exported expeditiously it makes 
your stomach turn. For instance, in order to speed up the dying process of tea leaves they spread the tea leaves on the warehouse floor and drive trucks back and forth over the leaves using the heat from the exhaust to dry the leaves out. As if it isn’t bad enough that the leaves are placed on a filthy ground and driven over by trucks it’s the lead from the exhaust fumes that further contaminates the tea leaves. This would be a bit of a problem for chains like Starbucks and people that buy herbal teas from the grocery store that have developed a fetish for the various properties herbal teas possess. It isn’t necessarily the case that China’s whole goods are the problem even though some of those whole goods are stopped in customs because they’re stale, poorly stored or are infested with maggots or vermin. It’s the ingredients China exports that various industries use to put in their products like dog food, which was contaminated with melamine from China, by the way, and I’m sure many of you are aware of the dog food scare.
Remember the Peanut butter recall? Yep, contaminated with vegetable proteins imported from China but back to the topic of whole goods. The recent scare is toothpaste and cough syrup exported from China. The toothpaste is contaminated with a chemical agent that normally is used in antifreeze. Currently, America has no test results on toothpaste imported from China. Nevertheless, Chinese representatives that make the toothpaste say toothpaste is not meant for consumption anyway. Thanks for looking out for our wellbeing. That same chemical agent showed up in a brand of cough syrup that killed a number of people in Panama last year but you won’t hear anything about that in the mainstream media because the mainstream media doesn’t give a damn about Panama - at least not since American armed forces extracted Manuel Noriega and deposited him in a prison cell in South Florida.
You may think that all this news I’m giving you about China is the bad news but actually it’s good news. It’s good news is at least we know where this garbage is coming from. The bad news is that none of the contaminated products sitting on the shelves of American grocery stores and feed stores have ‘Made in China’ labeling on them because the ingredients are added at the manufacturer, and will be labeled ‘Made in Ohio’ or wherever that manufacturer is located in the states, so we won’t know which product is bad for us or our animals until after someone or a pet or a farm animal has become seriously ill or has died. The FDA blocked 257 goods from China at U.S. ports last year, more than any other country in the world. In fact, the FDA blocked twice as much food shipments from China than all the other countries combined. Just to get a big picture here’s a link to the list of import refusals from OASIS. Here’s worse news. Don’t put so much faith in the FDA. As you may already know the EPA has already been under fire recently for basically lying to America all these years. The FDA isn’t that much better. Even with restrictions the FDA has put in place they’ve only been able to block a small percentage of food shipments from China. That means tons of contaminated garbage not fit for consumption is floating around in our grocery stores and restaurants.
Even with all of this substandard garbage being imported into our nation I’m not mad at the Chinese - at least not yet. What they’re going to need to do is put in place better checks and balances from their side. They’re going to have to come up to par and regulate how their process and package their goods. But the more pressing question is this: Why the hell is America putting up with substandard goods from China that endanger American citizens lives in the first place? Because Chinese goods are cheaper than anyone else’s in the world even so much that businesses that used to produce the same goods in America have been put out of business by Chinese competition. Here’s a chart of price comparisons of food, and pharmaceutical ingredients .
Former FDA official, William Hubbard says inspectors commonly block Chinese imports because they’re “filthy.” He also says “They might smell decomposition. They might see gross contamination of food.” Hubbard says ‘filthy’ is a broad term used for a product that’s not fit for consumption. A rejection code the FDA uses is called “Vet-Drug-Res”, which means products like seafood (fish, eels, etc.) contains residues of veterinary drugs such as antibiotics and antifungals. Hubbard also says “These fish are often raised in polluted waters, unfortunately, so they are given these drugs to treat them.” Drug residues in foodstuffs are illegal. They create antibiotic resistance, which makes prescription medication our doctors prescribe to us on a daily basis useless when they’re needed. A drug that shows up routinely in Chinese food imports is hazardous. It’s a veterinary antibiotic that causes cancer in animals. So this is why I’m not quite so angry with China as I am with the U.S. government. The U.S. government has known all along that Chinese goods were substandard from the get-go but they chose to look the other way and take the cheap route and focused their attention on more important things like selling obsolete weaponry and missiles to developing countries that we end up having to fight, research on Vidalia onions and funding the war in Iraq.
Reader Comments (5)
Informative post. Just to add a couple of things. The FDA recently came down on a local cattle grower for wanting to check EVERY ONE of their cows for mad cows. The FDA said NO WAY, the standard is only 1%. we do not care if you will pay for it. It will not be done! Messed up or what??
There are recalls almost daily on products from our food suppliers, on things that are already out for months, before they issue the recall.
Contaminated pet food taken off the shelves here was turned around and resold to chicken farmers for feed!
China is not the only threat to our health!
on a side note:
Am I the only one who comments here? whats up with that !?!?
you guys/gals do not believe in support? or are you just reading for the cheap thrills!
yeah, I said it!
I know what that Chinese guard is thinking! He is thinking, god! If only i could get into a threesome with those two! Ha ha!
@Zen: In England millions of toys manufactured in China with the brand name Mattel were recalled because they were dangerous and faulty.
I remember years ago when Japan used to have a reputation, for creating cheap and tacky goods.But at they never posed a threat to public heatlh and safety!
I don't know what it is about these Chinese manufacturers. But it appears to me that in their drive for profit, they will simply do anything, and i mean anything in order to aquire wealth.
Blame the american bosses for opening factories in china.
Or you should all open factories in india, africa or afghan, then you are going to get dangerous goods with Made in Bangladesh label instead.
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