I have to comment on this and I would like to thank The Revealer for posting this topic.
Lets stand back and take a look at foods and issues over the last two years.
The List
1. Spinach - tainted with E.coli
2. Dog food and treats - tainted with poisoned Wheat Gluten from China
3. Cough Syrup - Killed several people and was from China tainted with antifreeze chemicals
4. Peter Pan Peanut Butter - Tainted with Salmonella - I had a verified tainted jar and I have 5 foster children, very scary
5. Hamburger - E.coli January 08
6. Hamburger - E.coli June 08
7. Baby Formula in China - Tainted by Melamine 50,000 children sickened
8. Peppers from Mexico - tainted with E.coli - blamed prior on tomatoes causing major losses to American growers/farmers
9. White Rabbit Candy in China - same trace of Melamine found in formula
What's to come?
10. Halloween is only a few days away - what new food crisis or tainted food issue are we going to see a few days after October 31st? How many young
American children will be sickened or hospitalized for some unmonitored tainted Chinese material manufactured candy?
AND LETS NOT FORGET THE LEAD PAINT IN ALMOST ALL OF OUR CHILDREN'S TOYS MADE BY MAJOR MANUFACTURERS LIKE MATTEL THROUGH CHINA
Who monitors our food safety? Why is the monitoring done only on the Chinese side?
When does a human life outweigh the profits of greedy CEO's and the "look the other" way suppliers and testers?
I say enough is enough! We need to do something now with these Corporate criminals! We have a right to be Safe as consumers! We have a right to know
where everything that we take in to our bodies comes from!
We have a right to look at any package and to be able to see clearly where the ingredients originate from and what they are!
I just don't get this! We have now been programmed to go along with the fact that we are no longer represented by our elected leaders and the people
who were elected to uphold, protect, and serve. We have been brainwashed into thinking that we must accept that the food we eat or that our pets eat
might kill us our our loved ones!
Crazy, Rediculous, and Insane
Man we have become weak as a Nation!
[edit on 29-10-2008 by arizonascott]