THE EVIL OF PREDATORY CHINESE ANIMAL FEED VENDORS: We'll sell American fools plastic scrap. They'll cover it in artificial gravy and say it's great stuff.
The cat has burst from the bag with regards to the Chinese practice of selling American companies protein extending animal feeds stepped on with the plastic scrap, melamine.
“Many companies buy melamine scrap to make animal feed, such as fish feed,” said one Chinese animal feed-tainting rat, general manager of the Fujian Sanming Dinghui Chemical Company, which sells melamine, reported the New York Times here.
“I don’t know if there’s a regulation on it. Probably not. No law or regulation says ‘don’t do it,’ so everyone’s doing it. The laws in China are like that, aren’t they? If there’s no accident, there won’t be any regulation.”
Sounds about right to your friendly neighborhood GlobalSecurity.Org Senior Fellow.
If you're in possession of a good slave labor work force and there's no regulation of your industry, there's no reason at all not to sell poison to North American business partners (ChemNutra, Wilbur-Ellis Feeds, MenuFoods, etc) stupid enough to cede control of their supply chain in the pursuit of profit, right?
Perhaps if one could get away with selling chocolate bars made from crushed plywood, it would be a good thing to do. Is there any law in China that says you can't make chocolate from powdered plywood? If there's no accident while eating sugar-flavored crushed plywood, there shouldn't be any regulation, right?
Truly, only US news organizations could report such things with a straight face.
This blog has gone into some detail on the subject, dubbing the pet food contamination incidental agroterrorism.
If it had been done by al Qaeda, there would be no shortage of front page screaming.
The news would be a firebomb.
Tomahawks might be flying toward factories in order to put them out of action permanently; the US Special Forces command readying a search-and-destroy sally to make scorched earth of the bad guys.
However, this is enterprising use of the global marketplace, which -- somehow -- makes it all different.
"Melamine is at the center of a recall of 60 million packages of pet food, after the chemical was found in wheat gluten linked this month to the deaths of at least 16 pets and the illness of possibly thousands of pets in the United States," writes the Times.
"Many animal feed operators [in China] advertise on the Internet, seeking to purchase melamine scrap...Here at the Shandong Mingshui Great Chemical Group factory, huge boiler vats are turning coal into melamine ... "
Chinese agri-scum reported earlier today on the subject.
The question asked by pet food buyers, and by an increasing number of people worried about the selling of tainted animal feeds into the human food chain: Who is going to step up and sell food to American consumers that is guaranteed to be absolutely free of Chinese-originated contamination?
Since wheat, corn and rice glutens are not specialty commodities, who will have the stones and wisdom to bite the bullet and furnish animal feeds and pet foods made only in the United States?
The cat has burst from the bag with regards to the Chinese practice of selling American companies protein extending animal feeds stepped on with the plastic scrap, melamine.
“Many companies buy melamine scrap to make animal feed, such as fish feed,” said one Chinese animal feed-tainting rat, general manager of the Fujian Sanming Dinghui Chemical Company, which sells melamine, reported the New York Times here.
“I don’t know if there’s a regulation on it. Probably not. No law or regulation says ‘don’t do it,’ so everyone’s doing it. The laws in China are like that, aren’t they? If there’s no accident, there won’t be any regulation.”
Sounds about right to your friendly neighborhood GlobalSecurity.Org Senior Fellow.
If you're in possession of a good slave labor work force and there's no regulation of your industry, there's no reason at all not to sell poison to North American business partners (ChemNutra, Wilbur-Ellis Feeds, MenuFoods, etc) stupid enough to cede control of their supply chain in the pursuit of profit, right?
Perhaps if one could get away with selling chocolate bars made from crushed plywood, it would be a good thing to do. Is there any law in China that says you can't make chocolate from powdered plywood? If there's no accident while eating sugar-flavored crushed plywood, there shouldn't be any regulation, right?
Truly, only US news organizations could report such things with a straight face.
This blog has gone into some detail on the subject, dubbing the pet food contamination incidental agroterrorism.
If it had been done by al Qaeda, there would be no shortage of front page screaming.
The news would be a firebomb.
Tomahawks might be flying toward factories in order to put them out of action permanently; the US Special Forces command readying a search-and-destroy sally to make scorched earth of the bad guys.
However, this is enterprising use of the global marketplace, which -- somehow -- makes it all different.
"Melamine is at the center of a recall of 60 million packages of pet food, after the chemical was found in wheat gluten linked this month to the deaths of at least 16 pets and the illness of possibly thousands of pets in the United States," writes the Times.
"Many animal feed operators [in China] advertise on the Internet, seeking to purchase melamine scrap...Here at the Shandong Mingshui Great Chemical Group factory, huge boiler vats are turning coal into melamine ... "
Chinese agri-scum reported earlier today on the subject.
The question asked by pet food buyers, and by an increasing number of people worried about the selling of tainted animal feeds into the human food chain: Who is going to step up and sell food to American consumers that is guaranteed to be absolutely free of Chinese-originated contamination?
Since wheat, corn and rice glutens are not specialty commodities, who will have the stones and wisdom to bite the bullet and furnish animal feeds and pet foods made only in the United States?
posted by George Smith at 11:35 PM
1 Comments:
When American companies poison our food chain, you might think the press would be just as outraged - but it's not.
Secondly, perhaps the profit-driven US companies purchasing tainted products don't care either, since they certainly have major testing laboratories that could detect anything, I assume.
So, there are numerous guilty parties, not just the Chinese producers. Like all "for-profit-enterprises", in China and the US, regulation and responsibility for public safety are sacrificed for profits!
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