[Homesteadingfamily] Re: Where is your food coming from?

This is plain out gross! I refuse to buy anything knowingly from China
or from components form China, which is really tricky. Take a look at
"meat glue" on YouTube...and don't forget google the word
"Castoreum"....these are being used HERE everyday in just about all
foods! And people around me wonder why I am so picky about what I
eat.... :-)~deb
--- In Homesteadingfamily@yahoogroups.com, "Jeanne Lookabill"
<atasteofcreole@...> wrote:
>
>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7971983/China-goes-\
orga
> nic-after-scandal-of-cooking-oil-from-sewers.html
>
> Organic food sales have taken off in China after a series of safety
scares,
> including the disclosure that one in 10 meals is cooked using oil
dredged
> from the sewer.
>
>
http://bittman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/chinas-bizarre-food-safety-s\
cene
> -and-our-own/?ref=foodsafety
>
> ..the famous village wedding at which more than half of the 500 guests
were
> hospitalized
>
<http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/26/world/la-fg-china-food-20110627\
>
> after eating pork contaminated with Clenbuterol, a drug that
accelerates fat
> burning and muscle growth. (It makes pigs grow faster and leaner, and
when
> consumed in excess by humans can cause nausea, convulsions, dizziness,
> vomiting and heart palpitations.) Clenbuterol was banned from pig feed
in
> the 1990s, but is still used under the name "lean pork powder."
>
> The sickening of nearly 300 people from ingesting pig steroids is
probably
> the least bizarre of China's recent food safety "blunders." There are
the
> watermelons that began exploding
> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13421374> in Eastern
China,
> due to (according to China Central Television) overuse of a chemical
that
> makes them grow faster; the raw pork that glows blue because of
> phosphorescent bacteria
>
<http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/110788/glow-in-the-dark-pork-is-a-new-l\
ow-f
> or-chinese-food/> ; and the discovery that one in ten meals is cooked
using
> oil dredged from the sewers
>
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7971983/China-goes\
-org
> anic-after-scandal-of-cooking-oil-from-sewers.html> (collected under
the
> cover of darkness from drains behind restaurants, filtered, and
resold).
>
> A lack of ingenuity is clearly not the problem: China has also boasted
pork
> disguised and sold as beef
>
<http://shanghaiist.com/2011/04/20/now_the_beef_in_shanghai_might_be_f.p\
hp>
> (using a legal and fairly benign additive), counterfeit eggs
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0US7JEfhsrA> made from chemicals and
> egg-shaped molds, and soy sauce made using clippings of human hair
> <http://www.boingboing.net/2004/05/26/chinese-company-make.html> .
(Are you
> reading this? Have you fallen over yet?)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Jeanne
>
> <http://community.webshots.com/user/atasetofcreole>
> http://community.webshots.com/user/atasetofcreole
>
> <http://atasteofcreole.wordpress.com/>
http://atasteofcreole.wordpress.com/
>
> Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger
> of state and corporate power - Benito Mussolini
>
>
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