MELAMINE OR LUMBAGO? Kidney stones, cheap and profitable
Some of the most toxic bullshit peddled to the American public in the years since 9/11 has been the meme that Islamic terrorists had an easy grasp of science in the name of evil. And that they would use it to spread disease and death among us.
Sold by our government, which wishes you to be very afraid, always afraid, this idea has been the exact opposite of truth.
And now, finally, many people know the nasty and discouraging reality.
The most effective bioterrorist ever, Bruce Ivins, came out of the US government's biodefense infrastructure. OUR so-called good guys.
And the biggest threat to the safety of our food and drugs hasn't been al Qaeda men. It's been greedy Chinese and American businessmen working in the synergy of globalization, poisoning us with adulterants for the increase of profit.
Thanks to them, we now know that an unusual chemical, melamine, causes kidney stones in mammals -- specifically, pets and children.
And as melamine alerts reverberate around the world in the wake of China's dairy export industry, it affords an opportunity to look at bad chemistry while considering the scale of the global food market. And how vulnerable consumers are when garden-variety greed, not terrorism, is the driver in mass poisonings.
Read the entire analysis at el Reg here.
Some of the most toxic bullshit peddled to the American public in the years since 9/11 has been the meme that Islamic terrorists had an easy grasp of science in the name of evil. And that they would use it to spread disease and death among us.
Sold by our government, which wishes you to be very afraid, always afraid, this idea has been the exact opposite of truth.
And now, finally, many people know the nasty and discouraging reality.
The most effective bioterrorist ever, Bruce Ivins, came out of the US government's biodefense infrastructure. OUR so-called good guys.
And the biggest threat to the safety of our food and drugs hasn't been al Qaeda men. It's been greedy Chinese and American businessmen working in the synergy of globalization, poisoning us with adulterants for the increase of profit.
Thanks to them, we now know that an unusual chemical, melamine, causes kidney stones in mammals -- specifically, pets and children.
And as melamine alerts reverberate around the world in the wake of China's dairy export industry, it affords an opportunity to look at bad chemistry while considering the scale of the global food market. And how vulnerable consumers are when garden-variety greed, not terrorism, is the driver in mass poisonings.
Read the entire analysis at el Reg here.
posted by George Smith at 11:59 AM
1 Comments:
I saw your story on The Register about melamine.
There was a story in the NYTs last week about the unusual rise in kidney stones in US children. The possible connection is unsettling.
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