[Homesteadingfamily] Where is your food coming from?

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-scene
-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-low-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.php>
(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

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Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger
of state and corporate power - Benito Mussolini

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