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2007-06-29 China-Japan-Koreas

Chinese government: All exports are safe

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Posted by gromky 2007-06-29 03:30|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 I s'pose I should be glad my friends are moving back from Beijing this week.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-29 08:38|| 2007-06-29 08:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes, but do you know where your 'mystery meat' comes from? What is the ratio of federal meat inspectors to the amount of meat processed across the country everyday? Do you know the three D's of meat processing? [Dead, Dying, Diseased]. Do you know the 'parts per' authorized for fly and rodent feces permitted in food products? We assume a lot. The greatest guarantee to our food quality is not the government, but the communications media which will result in market blackballing of any company 'caught' in the act. How many don't get caught? For us, it's a lot like the possibility of getting struck by lightning. Remote, but it does happen routinely to someone. It's just that if you're in China, you're always walking around with a lightning rod in your hand.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-06-29 09:26|| 2007-06-29 09:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Procopius2k, my mother once made a pie chart of the ingredients of the common beef/pork hotdog, as permitted by the FDA. Even given that this was done for a grad school health ed. class in the mid-1970s, the results were disturbing. So I tend to stick with kosher sausage meats (D/D/D all forbidden), and let the butcher grind up the chuck steak in front of me for hamburgers. *shrug*

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-29 09:57|| 2007-06-29 09:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Wow. And they checked it all out and fixed it in in, what, a week?
That's damn fine work. I feel so safe now...

Posted by tu3031 2007-06-29 10:11|| 2007-06-29 10:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Globalization = lying communist bastards sending us hog slop, poisoned toothpaste and defective tires and then aiming their missiles at us. Gotta love it.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-06-29 11:16|| 2007-06-29 11:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Love this Reuters headline: "China calls for reason as food safety fears mount "

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-06-29 11:36|| 2007-06-29 11:36|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm glad to see the mounting skepticism regarding anything China says or does. These scum would poison their own grandmother for a few extra yuan.

So I tend to stick with kosher sausage meats (D/D/D all forbidden), and let the butcher grind up the chuck steak in front of me for hamburgers.

Good policy, tw. Quality is your best defense. Prestigious companies have a lot more to lose in case of scandal. They tend to protect their brand name and its reputation a bit more vigorously.

I hope everyone has noted the huge hamburger recall for e. coli. I have always maintained that the five pound chubs of pre-ground hamburger are pure poison. This also includes pre-formed frozen hamburger patties as well. The meat industry still regards hamburger as whatever they can sweep up off of the killing floor. Procopius2k's comments about D/D/D are on the money. While I don't watch my butcher grind the meat, I do make sure to purchase only meat ground at the store. Individual butchers are a lot more discriminating then a mechanical separator in some factory and the sides brought into a store are far less likely to be tainted.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-29 15:27|| 2007-06-29 15:27|| Front Page Top

#8 "Chinese government: All exports are safe"

Yeah, sure, yewbetcha.

And I'm my own Aunt Fanny.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-06-29 17:09|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-06-29 17:09|| Front Page Top

#9 And I'm my own Aunt Fanny.

Can I watch?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-29 22:38|| 2007-06-29 22:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Want to hear the really scary part, some people actually think the Chinese government tells the truth, and that if they say they are actually fixing the problem, it will be okay.
Sadly, these people work in the State and Commerce Department.....

Posted by JustAboutEnough 2007-06-29 22:45|| 2007-06-29 22:45|| Front Page Top

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