Yesterday It Was Pet Food, Today It's Toothpaste. What'll China Poision Next?

[KittyWampus]

It takes the epic corruption of freaking China to make the USA under the GOP look good.

They are the perfect example of why business needs regulating.

Like a teenager. Leaving corporations or large groups of teenagers to monitor themselves isn't in their own best interest.

Unsupervised they eventually WILL step over the line.

[Deja Q]

1. Well, they'll eventually kill off the corporate execs in the process as well.

:shrug:

I don't know what else to say. China repaid their bumbling official in kind. Signs are showing they are changing and improving their image.

[Fridays Child]

11. That's what I call a silver lining behind the cloud.

:evilgrin:

[liberal N proud]

2. Our health and safety are of no concern to the current regime or corporations in America

They could care less if you or I become ill from eating CHEAP products from China or injured from the unsafe items purchased from China because they are low cost.
All that matters to the corporations and the bu$h regime are PROFITS!

[supernova]

3. They're doing it

because they want to maximize profits. They're maximizing profits because they can. Because our companies who want the stuff made on the cheap look the other way when it comes to ingredients and labor practices, not to mention despoiling the environment around the factory.

Because unchecked capitalism always seeks the lowest cost to produce and the highest price to sell.

[Deja Q]

6. Exactly.

It's as simple as that.

Pity quality gets compromised in the process, but that's not the fault of the person who uses it. We buy it in good faith.

[Skidmore]

4. Don't forget the baby bibs last month.

[KittyWampus]

12. How did I miss baby bibs? What, were they exploding baby bibs?

[Benhurst]

16. the bibs were decorated with lead-based paint.

[KittyWampus]

17. Oooo. Tasty.

[wakeme2008]

5. whatever Wally Mart wants

:grr:

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. Our Precious Bodily Fluids? (n/t)

[Turbineguy]

8. Precious Bodily Fluids

We must not allow a Purity of Essence Gap! (with appologies to Ol' Bucky).

On Edit: Damn! One minute late! Fuck it. I'm not deleting my post!

[Fridays Child]

9. Probably, pretty much anything Madison Avenue has told us we can't live without.

[mike_c]

10. "massive beer recall announced, key ingredient imported from China...."

The Food and Drug administration urged American consumers to avoid beer after a key ingredient, imported from China, was found to be contaminated with what unnamed officials have described as "tank car loads of equine urine". The key ingredient, which the FDA has not named in an apparent nod to proprietary secrets within the brewing industry, has been a major constituent of beer made by Anheuser-Busch, Coors, Miller Brewing Company, and numerous other large volume producers of convenience store beer for several decades. Leading industry analysts say that might explain the distinctive flavor of those brands.

The price of a 24 pack of National Bohemian Light rose twenty-five cents to $8.79 in response to the news.

[Lobster Martini]

13. Give China credit for one thing--they don't swan around like the FDA

They've already sentenced the former head of the state Food and Drug Administration to death!

BEIJING (Reuters) -- China on Tuesday sentenced the former head of its food and drugs agency to death for corruption in a surprise judgment as the government sought to contain a wave of scandals over health safety.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/29/news/international/china_death_sentence.reut/index.htm

[KittyWampus]

15. Bush would have given him a Medal of Freedom. But death is good too.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. He dishonored the country, that is why

[pitohui]

14. "eventually?" hundreds killed in panama but i guess they weren't usa-ian dogs so it don't matter

china is already killing people w. antifreeze in food and medicine, see the case of several hundred killed in panama

it really disturbs me that more attention is paid to some dead dogs than to hundreds of children killed

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/world/americas/06poison.html?ex=1180929600&en=a86e7f3cd6deb1a6&ei=5070

this is not some obscure blog, it is the new york times, and yet no one seems to much care about it

Panama is the most recent victim. Last year, government officials there unwittingly mixed diethylene glycol into 260,000 bottles of cold medicine — with devastating results. Families have reported 365 deaths from the poison, 100 of which have been confirmed so far. With the onset of the rainy season, investigators are racing to exhume as many potential victims as possible before bodies decompose even more.

Panama’s death toll leads directly to Chinese companies that made and exported the poison as 99.5 percent pure glycerin.

chinese businessmen sold antifreeze as glycerin to put in children's medicine, and killed these children as good as shooting them in the head, as far as i can see most in the usa could care less

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Thanks did not know it

and it will happen here too

This is the maximize profits for mamon religion

[KittyWampus]

20. Chinese "Business Men" also sell bogus patent medicine world wide. Not suppliments. Medicine.

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. It is not china, it is the system and how it is conceived

maximize profits, safety be damned'

the US has been here too and this is the dream of the Corporatist

So don't think it is China... it is an ideology... they just took to it like ducks to water

[KittyWampus]

21. #1 China has a long, long history of corruption. #2 The USA has had regulations in place

for most of the last 100 years.

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. Yes, but it is the system

right now the system is broken

And our regulations have also broken down, all in the name of the mighty dollar

And if somebody like Ron Paul (I like him on the war, after that not really) got to the presidency, you'd see all those regulatory bodies not gutted, but fully destroyed

Oh the fair maiden of the market place, and the free hand ... I(which Smith mentioned ONCE in the whole book and has been often misinterpreted), is the only goddess these merchants of death pray to

I don't care about nationality at this point

[KoKo]

22. I don't blame China for their Crooks...and I don't blame Mexico for sending "workers"

What we need to focus on are those who GET INTO HIGH POSITIONS who are CROOKS & LIARS and TOOLS of the Worst Vision of GLOBILIZTION that ANYONE could ever imagine. Corporate WHORES...GLOBAL WALL STREET WHORES and those Academics out of the the "Think Tanks" from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford who have FED this disgusting "Globilization IS GOOD" ...it's the ANSWER to the ALL THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS.

The Wolfowitz Idealists (with perverted private lives) who somehow still manage to get into the minds of innocent students in these Universities and Colleges that are the PROBLEM...and they NEVER have a SOLUTION to their IVY LEAGUE GOBBLY GOOK when they send the Poor and Adventurous out to their DEATHS while they Pump HALLIBURTON, DYN CORP and the various International Mercenary Armies and Global Oil Conglomerates out with TRILLIONS of our TAX PAYER DOLLARS to be the AVENGING UTOPIANS!!!!!!!

[TomInTib]

25. Fish food

Anyone who consumes farmed fish or shellfish better think twice.

That melamine makes a fine bonding agent for pelletized food.

[shance]

26. How can we believe anything coming from the Bush sponsored media?

Seriously.

What does someone qualify as legitimate news in contrast to lies?

How does one know?

[phillysuse]

27. We can stop this if we just don't buy from China Mart

i.e. WalMart.

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. It goes well beyond Walmart

I don't buy from them but the race for corporate profit means much of your crap is now made in China

hell I had to replace a Medic Alert... no longer made in Jersey, but in China

[DireStrike]

29. I can't help but feel edgy over criticism of the chinese

Beware the "new" bogeyman. The Chinese are doing bad things, and have been for quite some time. Why are we only hearing about it now? Because they (our self-styled new age feudal lords) need someone to blame.

These things would not be affecting us if our government was functioning as it is supposed to instead of being used to maximize corporate profits.