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February 1, 2011 at 12:36 PM #661971February 1, 2011 at 4:09 PM #661090
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Participant[quote=flu]I don’t think you folks sense the irony here….
For all the bashing about all the crap that comes out of overseas about food safety and several have touted about food product safety…Then we have this sort of crap that goes on….
I’ll LOLing because I’m deciding what’s the better way me and my family will die… Eating fish from the gulf, eating fish from overseas bathed in mercury bath, or eating GM food made by monsanto…
Makes you kinda wonder, are food products from china really that much worse off than stuff from here? Are we *really* that much better off…It’s definitely making me think twice….
After all, we know it’s not only the genetic modifications that’s screwy in itself (they are)…It’s that their doing it so they can spray tons and tons of pesticides on the goods so that they can kill bugs and weeds without killing the produce…. But don’t worry, I’m sure all those pesticides are perfectly safe for human consumption…[/quote]
Recent shopping trip for ‘healthy’ baby food:
Gerber Organic Brown Rice Infant cereal.
Ingredients – 100% organic whole grain rice.
Made in China.
Stop, back up. Double check. USDA Organic – check, infant cereal- check, whole grain rice – check. Made in China.
… I started to have a facial tic at this point.
It’s organic and good for the environment and my baby, but I’m grinding it up in China (A bellweather in consumer safety) and then putting it in a box, in another box, in a steel container and loading it on boat that is basically burning asphalt to ship it 10000 kilometers across the planet.
February 1, 2011 at 4:09 PM #661154Participant[quote=flu]I don’t think you folks sense the irony here….
For all the bashing about all the crap that comes out of overseas about food safety and several have touted about food product safety…Then we have this sort of crap that goes on….
I’ll LOLing because I’m deciding what’s the better way me and my family will die… Eating fish from the gulf, eating fish from overseas bathed in mercury bath, or eating GM food made by monsanto…
Makes you kinda wonder, are food products from china really that much worse off than stuff from here? Are we *really* that much better off…It’s definitely making me think twice….
After all, we know it’s not only the genetic modifications that’s screwy in itself (they are)…It’s that their doing it so they can spray tons and tons of pesticides on the goods so that they can kill bugs and weeds without killing the produce…. But don’t worry, I’m sure all those pesticides are perfectly safe for human consumption…[/quote]
Recent shopping trip for ‘healthy’ baby food:
Gerber Organic Brown Rice Infant cereal.
Ingredients – 100% organic whole grain rice.
Made in China.
Stop, back up. Double check. USDA Organic – check, infant cereal- check, whole grain rice – check. Made in China.
… I started to have a facial tic at this point.
It’s organic and good for the environment and my baby, but I’m grinding it up in China (A bellweather in consumer safety) and then putting it in a box, in another box, in a steel container and loading it on boat that is basically burning asphalt to ship it 10000 kilometers across the planet.
February 1, 2011 at 4:09 PM #661758Participant[quote=flu]I don’t think you folks sense the irony here….
For all the bashing about all the crap that comes out of overseas about food safety and several have touted about food product safety…Then we have this sort of crap that goes on….
I’ll LOLing because I’m deciding what’s the better way me and my family will die… Eating fish from the gulf, eating fish from overseas bathed in mercury bath, or eating GM food made by monsanto…
Makes you kinda wonder, are food products from china really that much worse off than stuff from here? Are we *really* that much better off…It’s definitely making me think twice….
After all, we know it’s not only the genetic modifications that’s screwy in itself (they are)…It’s that their doing it so they can spray tons and tons of pesticides on the goods so that they can kill bugs and weeds without killing the produce…. But don’t worry, I’m sure all those pesticides are perfectly safe for human consumption…[/quote]
Recent shopping trip for ‘healthy’ baby food:
Gerber Organic Brown Rice Infant cereal.
Ingredients – 100% organic whole grain rice.
Made in China.
Stop, back up. Double check. USDA Organic – check, infant cereal- check, whole grain rice – check. Made in China.
… I started to have a facial tic at this point.
It’s organic and good for the environment and my baby, but I’m grinding it up in China (A bellweather in consumer safety) and then putting it in a box, in another box, in a steel container and loading it on boat that is basically burning asphalt to ship it 10000 kilometers across the planet.
February 1, 2011 at 4:09 PM #661895Participant[quote=flu]I don’t think you folks sense the irony here….
For all the bashing about all the crap that comes out of overseas about food safety and several have touted about food product safety…Then we have this sort of crap that goes on….
I’ll LOLing because I’m deciding what’s the better way me and my family will die… Eating fish from the gulf, eating fish from overseas bathed in mercury bath, or eating GM food made by monsanto…
Makes you kinda wonder, are food products from china really that much worse off than stuff from here? Are we *really* that much better off…It’s definitely making me think twice….
After all, we know it’s not only the genetic modifications that’s screwy in itself (they are)…It’s that their doing it so they can spray tons and tons of pesticides on the goods so that they can kill bugs and weeds without killing the produce…. But don’t worry, I’m sure all those pesticides are perfectly safe for human consumption…[/quote]
Recent shopping trip for ‘healthy’ baby food:
Gerber Organic Brown Rice Infant cereal.
Ingredients – 100% organic whole grain rice.
Made in China.
Stop, back up. Double check. USDA Organic – check, infant cereal- check, whole grain rice – check. Made in China.
… I started to have a facial tic at this point.
It’s organic and good for the environment and my baby, but I’m grinding it up in China (A bellweather in consumer safety) and then putting it in a box, in another box, in a steel container and loading it on boat that is basically burning asphalt to ship it 10000 kilometers across the planet.
February 1, 2011 at 4:09 PM #662225Participant[quote=flu]I don’t think you folks sense the irony here….
For all the bashing about all the crap that comes out of overseas about food safety and several have touted about food product safety…Then we have this sort of crap that goes on….
I’ll LOLing because I’m deciding what’s the better way me and my family will die… Eating fish from the gulf, eating fish from overseas bathed in mercury bath, or eating GM food made by monsanto…
Makes you kinda wonder, are food products from china really that much worse off than stuff from here? Are we *really* that much better off…It’s definitely making me think twice….
After all, we know it’s not only the genetic modifications that’s screwy in itself (they are)…It’s that their doing it so they can spray tons and tons of pesticides on the goods so that they can kill bugs and weeds without killing the produce…. But don’t worry, I’m sure all those pesticides are perfectly safe for human consumption…[/quote]
Recent shopping trip for ‘healthy’ baby food:
Gerber Organic Brown Rice Infant cereal.
Ingredients – 100% organic whole grain rice.
Made in China.
Stop, back up. Double check. USDA Organic – check, infant cereal- check, whole grain rice – check. Made in China.
… I started to have a facial tic at this point.
It’s organic and good for the environment and my baby, but I’m grinding it up in China (A bellweather in consumer safety) and then putting it in a box, in another box, in a steel container and loading it on boat that is basically burning asphalt to ship it 10000 kilometers across the planet.
February 1, 2011 at 4:31 PM #661115jpinpb
ParticipantNSR – this is something that just makes no sense. How can it possible be cost effective? It almost makes me think that China is not giong to demand to be paid as long as we ship our jobs to them and we buy their products. The whole fair trade thing is just a ploy. There is an arrangement. This just proves the absurdity of the situation.
February 1, 2011 at 4:31 PM #661179ParticipantNSR – this is something that just makes no sense. How can it possible be cost effective? It almost makes me think that China is not giong to demand to be paid as long as we ship our jobs to them and we buy their products. The whole fair trade thing is just a ploy. There is an arrangement. This just proves the absurdity of the situation.
February 1, 2011 at 4:31 PM #661783ParticipantNSR – this is something that just makes no sense. How can it possible be cost effective? It almost makes me think that China is not giong to demand to be paid as long as we ship our jobs to them and we buy their products. The whole fair trade thing is just a ploy. There is an arrangement. This just proves the absurdity of the situation.
February 1, 2011 at 4:31 PM #661920ParticipantNSR – this is something that just makes no sense. How can it possible be cost effective? It almost makes me think that China is not giong to demand to be paid as long as we ship our jobs to them and we buy their products. The whole fair trade thing is just a ploy. There is an arrangement. This just proves the absurdity of the situation.
February 1, 2011 at 4:31 PM #662250ParticipantNSR – this is something that just makes no sense. How can it possible be cost effective? It almost makes me think that China is not giong to demand to be paid as long as we ship our jobs to them and we buy their products. The whole fair trade thing is just a ploy. There is an arrangement. This just proves the absurdity of the situation.
February 1, 2011 at 4:34 PM #661120
CoronitaParticipant[quote=jpinpb]NSR – this is something that just makes no sense. How can it possible be cost effective? It almost makes me think that China is not giong to demand to be paid as long as we ship our jobs to them and we buy their products. The whole fair trade thing is just a ploy. There is an arrangement. This just proves the absurdity of the situation.[/quote]
You would be surprised…. In some cases, we’re at a point which we no longer have the manufacturing capacity to do it, and it takes up time to build that…
Case in point…That’s why there’s all this hype around Molycorp and rare earth metals…Overseas use to be a big supplier, and we stopped doing it ourselves.
February 1, 2011 at 4:34 PM #661184CoronitaParticipant[quote=jpinpb]NSR – this is something that just makes no sense. How can it possible be cost effective? It almost makes me think that China is not giong to demand to be paid as long as we ship our jobs to them and we buy their products. The whole fair trade thing is just a ploy. There is an arrangement. This just proves the absurdity of the situation.[/quote]
You would be surprised…. In some cases, we’re at a point which we no longer have the manufacturing capacity to do it, and it takes up time to build that…
Case in point…That’s why there’s all this hype around Molycorp and rare earth metals…Overseas use to be a big supplier, and we stopped doing it ourselves.
February 1, 2011 at 4:34 PM #661788CoronitaParticipant[quote=jpinpb]NSR – this is something that just makes no sense. How can it possible be cost effective? It almost makes me think that China is not giong to demand to be paid as long as we ship our jobs to them and we buy their products. The whole fair trade thing is just a ploy. There is an arrangement. This just proves the absurdity of the situation.[/quote]
You would be surprised…. In some cases, we’re at a point which we no longer have the manufacturing capacity to do it, and it takes up time to build that…
Case in point…That’s why there’s all this hype around Molycorp and rare earth metals…Overseas use to be a big supplier, and we stopped doing it ourselves.
February 1, 2011 at 4:34 PM #661925CoronitaParticipant[quote=jpinpb]NSR – this is something that just makes no sense. How can it possible be cost effective? It almost makes me think that China is not giong to demand to be paid as long as we ship our jobs to them and we buy their products. The whole fair trade thing is just a ploy. There is an arrangement. This just proves the absurdity of the situation.[/quote]
You would be surprised…. In some cases, we’re at a point which we no longer have the manufacturing capacity to do it, and it takes up time to build that…
Case in point…That’s why there’s all this hype around Molycorp and rare earth metals…Overseas use to be a big supplier, and we stopped doing it ourselves.
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