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Monday, May 9, 2011

Quote of the day--on China

"Basically, people now feel nothing is safe to eat. They don't know what choices to make. They are really feeling very helpless." --SANG LIWEI, director of the Beijing office of the Global Food Safety Forum, on rising food safety concerns in China.

Between this--food safety, nationwide over there--and their gross, wholesale pollution and the inability to grant true free speech in China, you have to wonder: these are the people we have to fear?

Links:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/world/asia/08food.html?scp=1&sq=chinese%20food%20safety&st=cse
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/world/asia/10writer.html?ref=world

2 comments:

John McAndrew said...

They put concrete in their pet food, and too much of something in their milk that was killing their children – but wasn't noticed until it was exported to New Zealand. They did have the good sense to execute the MFers who killed children for profit, however.

Mo Rage said...

Melamine.

I can't imagine who thought of such a thing, first, and then, second, I wonder what benefit--financial or otherwise--they deduced they'd gain by doing such a thing. The "logic" behind that has totally eluded me--and maybe for virtually everyone in the West. I just don't get it. And to infants, no less. Sick, sick people.