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No sarcasm here... I have stopped bashing China. I got tired of blaming the players and put the blame on the coaches long ago. How does this crap make it to our shelves?
Our pets, today, and us pretty soon. Chinese chickens (the very ones from which these treats are being made and the host of bird flu and lord knows what else) will soon be on our supermarket shelves. Bon appetit!
I hold our government and China's equally responsible for China's bad practices. We're the wealthiest nation on Earth and have been their biggest customer as they have been developing their own powerhouse economy. There's little they're doing that we didn't either welcome or turn a blind eye to.
What bugs me is that, true to form, a lot of Americans take this stuff out on Chinese people. They probably hate their government as much as we hate ours...unless they're considering the fact that their country is on its way up while we're rolling downhill.
I disapprove of what China does and the potential for harm to us scares me silly. But let's face it...they own us right now, as our #1 debt holder. It's easy to say "don't buy Chinese stuff," but it's harder to do it.
Here's a thought...maybe if we weren't so obsessed with not paying higher taxes we'd be able to buy ourselves out of their grip.
Our pets, today, and us pretty soon. Chinese chickens (the very ones from which these treats are being made and the host of bird flu and lord knows what else) will soon be on our supermarket shelves. Bon appetit!
More reasons to buy local and organic. We just have to hope that the Chinese crap does not contaminate healthy choices. Don't forget the other gift from China...
The northern snakehead, which is native to parts of China, far eastern Russia and the Korean peninsula, may seem plug-ugly to the undiscerning eye—it has big, pointy teeth and, given its particularly heavy mucus covering, a slime problem. It can grow up to five feet long. Like its reptilian namesake, it’s long and slender and can sport blotchy snakelike patterns on its skin. Unlike most fish, the northern snakehead has little sacs above its gills that function almost like lungs; the fish can surface and suck air into the sacs, then draw oxygen from the stored air as it swims. The air sacs are handy for surviving in waters that are low in oxygen, and even allow the fish to survive out of water for a couple of days, as long as it doesn’t dry out. A female lays thousands of eggs at a time, and both parents guard their offspring in a large nest they make in a clearing of aquatic plants.
And I love chicken. Does chicken have a made in China sticker?
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