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Old 10-18-2011, 07:33 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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I have! That's why I'm looking closer at labels watching for that Chinese crap!
Any "Chinese crap" that reaches your supermarket is imported by an American distributor, who is fully responsible for and knowledgeable about the product that is distributed in their name, exactly the same as if they were marketing "USA crap" like tater tots or hot pockets. If it is packaged outside the USA, it cannot legally be offered for sale in the USA without a label showing the country of origin.

Have you noticed that it is not "Chinese crap" that is tainted by oil?
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Old 10-18-2011, 07:36 AM
 
Location: Where we enjoy all four seasons
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The government’s safety testing methodologies for Gulf of Mexico seafood were insufficient to prevent oil-tainted animals from being sold in U.S. supermarkets.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used outdated risk assessment techniques when evaluating the safety of gulf seafood in the wake of the worst accidental oil spill in human history and was responsible for allowing food with “10,000 times too much contamination” than should be permitted, failing to highlight the elevated risk to children and pregnant women.

Produced by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and published in the journal Environmental Health Perspective, study concludes: “We found not only petroleum in the digestive tracts of shrimp, but also in the edible portions of fish. We’ve collected shrimp, oysters and finned fish on their way to marketplace — we tested a good number of seafood samples and in 100% we found petroleum.” Experts cited excessive amounts of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), which can trigger an elevated cancer risk. Heightened PAH levels are precisely what the NRDC found as well.

The FDA continues to insist that seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is safe to consume.

FDA Allowed Unsafe Seafood Onto Market After BP Oil Spill Disaster

Can you just imagine what they are NOT telling us...
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Old 10-18-2011, 08:56 AM
 
Location: Silver Springs, FL
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Any "Chinese crap" that reaches your supermarket is imported by an American distributor, who is fully responsible for and knowledgeable about the product that is distributed in their name, exactly the same as if they were marketing "USA crap" like tater tots or hot pockets. If it is packaged outside the USA, it cannot legally be offered for sale in the USA without a label showing the country of origin.

Have you noticed that it is not "Chinese crap" that is tainted by oil?
Have you noticed they dont have to tell us when theres melamine in crap they import from China?
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Old 10-18-2011, 10:30 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Have you noticed they dont have to tell us when theres melamine in crap they import from China?
And just who is "they", who doesn't tell us about melamine crap. The American importers and distributors, who get rich importing it and hiding everything that it's not illegal to hide (and a lot that is)?

If you don't like what is being sold to you by American importers, distributors, wholesalers and retailers, put the blame where it belongs.

No Melamine has ever been found in any human food imported into the USA from China.
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Old 10-18-2011, 10:32 AM
 
Location: Silver Springs, FL
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And just who is "they", who doesn't tell us about melamine crap. The American importers and distributors, who get rich importing it and hiding everything that it's not illegal to hide (and a lot that is)?

If you don't like what is being sold to you by American importers, distributors, wholesalers and retailers, put the blame where it belongs.
This would be a rhetorical question, and just another reason why we grow as much of our own food, etc as possible.
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Old 10-18-2011, 10:43 AM
 
Location: Land of Free Johnson-Weld-2016
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The government’s safety testing methodologies for Gulf of Mexico seafood were insufficient to prevent oil-tainted animals from being sold in U.S. supermarkets.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used outdated risk assessment techniques when evaluating the safety of gulf seafood in the wake of the worst accidental oil spill in human history and was responsible for allowing food with “10,000 times too much contamination” than should be permitted, failing to highlight the elevated risk to children and pregnant women.

Produced by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and published in the journal Environmental Health Perspective, study concludes: “We found not only petroleum in the digestive tracts of shrimp, but also in the edible portions of fish. We’ve collected shrimp, oysters and finned fish on their way to marketplace — we tested a good number of seafood samples and in 100% we found petroleum.” Experts cited excessive amounts of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), which can trigger an elevated cancer risk. Heightened PAH levels are precisely what the NRDC found as well.

The FDA continues to insist that seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is safe to consume.

FDA Allowed Unsafe Seafood Onto Market After BP Oil Spill Disaster
Thanks Hon...you are a veritable cornucopia of information about food! But honestly, is anyone surprised? I stopped buying a lot of seafood after the Japan contamination and the BP disaster. Not only the OIL (which is Natural) but the chemical "dispersants" which contain God-knows-what. I get enough chemicals and risks using cellular phones and eating regular food.

Who would even THINK seafood is safe? Prior to those disasters the FDA already has a list of fish/seafood that may be dangerous because of the levels of mercury and other heavy metals.

I do eat seafood occasionally, but I definitely don't go out of my way to buy it...although I do take heavy-metal free fish oil tablets. I think it is also strange so many places have shrimp and other "expensive" seafood on sale. Of course it is on sale, the industrialized countries have turned the oceans into a cesspool. No thanks.
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Old 10-18-2011, 12:40 PM
 
Location: Cody, WY
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Just try to imagine what you'd be eating if there was no governmental regulatory agency at all.
For starters some great European cheeses made with raw milk. The government won't let us import these now.

Then I'd like some turtle soup. There are turtle farms in the Cayman Islands so there's no effect on wild turtles.

Get the government out of the kitchen.
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Old 10-18-2011, 01:52 PM
 
Location: Land of Free Johnson-Weld-2016
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For starters some great European cheeses made with raw milk. The government won't let us import these now.

Then I'd like some turtle soup. There are turtle farms in the Cayman Islands so there's no effect on wild turtles.

Get the government out of the kitchen.
? Why so people can start suing like crazy when they get sick from the foreign bacteria in unpasteurized cheese?

I had raw milk cheese, and personally, I didn't notice any difference in taste. If a consumer is really that ooh la la... lol that raw milk Gucci Louis Vuitton cheese is a must, simply take a trip to France or wherever and fill-up on cheese.

You'll be helping the world economy.

Years ago, I had a freshly killed turtle (that was probably illegally killed but not by me)...and I don't think that's any big whoop either. The poor thing gave up its life and IMO it tastes like a cross between fish and chicken.

If you've never had it before then IMO you're not missing much...well except it is a little greenish. Again, I think anyone who is pining for turtle soup can take a trip to the Cayman islands. I bet that's more fun than eating it at home...and the government doesn't have to worry about being sued or petitioned to death by the people at PETA.
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Old 10-19-2011, 08:30 AM
 
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Turtle soup is illegal? I've had it at various restaurants in New Orleans, is this a recent development?
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Old 10-19-2011, 08:39 AM
 
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Who would even THINK seafood is safe?
Since you ask, I do. Sure there is always a chance you consume something unhealthy, but same with fruits and vegetables many people have gotten ill and died from eating them in this country. Thousands get sick from salmonella in eggs or chicken every year.

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I think it is also strange so many places have shrimp and other "expensive" seafood on sale. Of course it is on sale, the industrialized countries have turned the oceans into a cesspool. No thanks.
Hyperbole much?

Shrimp has gotten cheaper over time because of increased supply due to global trade. Imports from countries like Vietnam/Thailand/etc. with large shrimp farming industries have made it no longer an expensive food.
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