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Old 07-10-2007, 02:27 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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I would never eat food from China if I could help it.

News, China Says Food Safety Inadequate

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Old 07-10-2007, 02:51 PM
 
Location: Ohio, but moving to El Paso, TX August/September
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I am a major food hippy so I try to eat local, organic produce and I try to stay away from processed foods regardless of where they're made.
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Old 07-10-2007, 03:13 PM
 
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
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I try to avoid everything from china, which of course is impossible..

however, I do look at everything and if there's a non-chinese option I'll go with it even if it's more expensive. the damn red chinese are the thing everyone should fear. they're out to destroy us and unfortunately pretty much everyone is ignoring the problem

BTW, there's no way I'd buy any food from there and the walmart cat food from there killed my cat.
so I don't shop at walmart anymore either. that actually is possible and pretty easy to do
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Old 07-10-2007, 05:21 PM
 
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Unfortunately, you have to depend on the american companies to know where their raw materials came from... serious stuff.

Yes, I believe my little doggie did get hold of some tainted food as well. Made her sick, though she made it through. I do believe it hastened her demise at age 17 (lymphoma) a few months later.
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Old 07-10-2007, 05:39 PM
 
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Chinese officials have acknowledged there is a problem with the safety of their exports. I bet they'll fix it.. they make way too much money on exports to ignore the problem.

Whether I'll buy it or not is another question.
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Old 07-10-2007, 05:44 PM
 
Location: Mayberry
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I am hoping it doesn't come to this, where we have to buy food made in China. We are losing so much of ourselves, we need to preserve the food we do produce and keep it going. I went to China in 2002, to communist China and had to eat there. Very nice hotel, but everthing tasted like fish. It was gross, it was even grosser to watch the chinese eat. We went to an auithentic chinese lunch and it was disgusting, fish heads, weird things, and the constantly spit out food as they eat it. It was sooooo grooossssss
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Old 07-10-2007, 05:58 PM
 
Location: Spots Wyoming
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It makes me wonder why they openly admitted it. Did they get caught with something? Were they challenged by somebody? Hard telling. But it is very odd for them to step forward and admit something like this unless they were forced to.
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Old 07-10-2007, 07:36 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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I heard they just executed their guy in charge of exports. Damage control, Chinese style.
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Old 07-10-2007, 07:41 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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I heard they just executed their guy in charge of exports. Damage control, Chinese style.
story: China executes former food, drug chief*-*Nation/Politics*-*The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
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Old 07-11-2007, 06:39 AM
 
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
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Is there a law that the country of origin for food has to be on the label? The more I read the more I seriously don't want to touch anything (especially food) from china..

** warning- might not want to read some of these while eating breakfast.. **

FOXNews.com - China Food Crisis Begins at Family Level - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News (http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jul06/0,4670,ChinaUnsafeFood,00.html - broken link)

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China vows to improve food safety - CNN.com (broken link)
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