tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post1206730965572145671..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Optimal adulteration: Subtle food poisoning by cheap Chinese suppliersagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-5365433355429438252015-11-11T06:52:11.997-05:002015-11-11T06:52:11.997-05:00I ate some smoked oyters from the dollarama--brand...I ate some smoked oyters from the dollarama--brand name "D" Gourmet---expiry date May 24 , 2017.A few hours after eating this, i felt very weird, and later in the middle of the night felt like i had to go to bathroom.Well , i had the worst case of diarhhea from then on, had a slight fever with chills, very upset stomach...anyhow sure i got food poisoning from this, and will NEVER buy this again! especially from china!silkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01639154738626225763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-89308975220431439862013-10-23T17:34:04.028-04:002013-10-23T17:34:04.028-04:00"Boycott all this flimflam bullshit coming ou..."Boycott all this flimflam bullshit coming out of amoral China. Not only do they deserve it, you'll be healthier for it too."<br /><br />I dont always agree with you, but you're spot on right about this! Get well soon, and watch out for commie seafood...Toddy Catnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-11706225826110004192013-10-21T17:36:13.007-04:002013-10-21T17:36:13.007-04:00Damn, I'm glad to see you're back with ano...Damn, I'm glad to see you're back with another post today! Sorry for my absence lately...so much going on. I have a lot to catch up on here!FWGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-88615938255107025172013-10-21T12:55:11.263-04:002013-10-21T12:55:11.263-04:00Yes, the Chinese are amoral. But the US food impo...Yes, the Chinese are amoral. But the US food importers who import the poison because it is cheaper are simply evil. <br /><br />Not a week goes buy in China when there is not some major food scandal. Fake chicken and beef are constantly turning up. The beef is pork with red dye, I don't know how they make fake chicken. They can make fake eggs and the way to tell the difference is to boil them. The fake eggs bounce. Imagine the ingenuity required to fake eggs. More profitable to cheat people, though, than to use your talents legally.<br /><br />I once, around 6 years ago, saw an undercover programme showing a disgustingly dirty factory operation (bascially a shack) which was boiling human hair, the sweepings from barber shop floors, to make fake soy sauce.<br /><br />Asshole food companies are still using the plastic additive melamine to fake protein levels in milk powder, years after thousands of babies suffered malnutriction, several babies died and a few middle men were executed.<br /><br />Thousands of mainland Chinese cross the Shenzhen/Hong Kong border daily to buy baby milk powder in Hong Kong retail stores. They can buy the exact same milk powder in China from the exact same foreign brands, but they fear that their own retailers will stock counterfeit goods and they don't trust their goverment to enforce the law and catch the crooks.<br /><br />As a result, milk powder near the border is more expensive than powder further away and there is a daily quota of what one person can buy, causing tension with the locals who would like to be able to walk to their corner store and buy powder for their babies without hassle.<br /><br />If the American consumer understood all this, they would not stand for it. Sure, some have heard the horror stories of the poison pet food and the dry wall giving off gass, the lead paint in children's toys and other issues. However, they trust American food companies and retailers to not poison them. Because of their misplaced trust, the opportunity to make big profits exists. <br /><br />I am pretty sure the retailers don't expect to have problems. The food importers will have very convincing documentation that all their Chinese imports have been tested to the strictest standards, standards which may even be more stringent than US produced food standards. They will rely on the documentation and their staff or agents or quality inspectors in China to make sure the food is safe, while at the same time doing their utmost to pay these people as little as possible. If an inspector makes USD1000 per month but monthly shipments are worth USD200,000 in profit to a producer, the producer can triple the inspectors salary (under the table) for just 1% of their profit.<br /><br />When you ask them how oysters from China can be cheaper than oysters from America, when America has cheaper energy prices, lower tax and massively higher productivity, a longer coast line and lower transportation costs, they won't be able to answer. They will tell you that labour in China is cheaper. Labour is cheaper in China but most food is made more cheaply in the States. Why are oysters special?<br /><br />No, the real problem is the the food importers will poison you so they can buy a larger yatch. The media will not investigate these issues because they want food companies to advertise and would prefer to see you get sick than to lose advertising dollars. The government will protect you but only middle class white people eat Chinese oysters so tough luck, cracka, don't you realise that oysters are raciss?Ulick McGeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-18673329252702682013-10-20T19:02:13.340-04:002013-10-20T19:02:13.340-04:00The brand that I always buy smoked mussels and oys...The brand that I always buy smoked mussels and oysters used to be from Chile, now everything is from China. A pity, as I really liked smoked mussels. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-71878289675965500292013-10-20T15:29:15.196-04:002013-10-20T15:29:15.196-04:00In lieu of burial or cremation, have you considere...In lieu of burial or cremation, have you considered donating your blog to science?Jokah Macphersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04185675633464395897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-46907309782329696072013-10-19T23:17:58.776-04:002013-10-19T23:17:58.776-04:00Oysters ain't for anyone. Maybe you just had a...Oysters ain't for anyone. Maybe you just had a reaction for oyster in general. A lot of people can't take shellfish, how are you sure you are not one of them? Even if they put bad oysters in the can, the FDA is supposed to give the final saying in approving it to be sold in the States or not, right?<br /><br />Actually, I am all in favor of US boycotting all Chinese goods. I am pretty sure anyone with a remote sense of what's happening right now would not want to associate with a country that's degenerated in the spiral of self-destruction. Buy the Mexican stuff, prepare for the future!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-27966065131030237102013-10-19T16:36:48.912-04:002013-10-19T16:36:48.912-04:00Hope you're feeling better. Get well soon.
...Hope you're feeling better. Get well soon. <br /><br />Yeah, my husband brought home some candy that was "FAO Schwartz" brand for the kids. Didn't know they made candy, so I grabbed it and looked it over and it was made in China. A first for me. "Put it up" so as not to insult my husband in front of the kids, but threw it away after an acceptable interval. I'd let the kids eat the cheap Mexican candy before that stuff.<br /><br />It was some of the prettiest candy I've ever seen, I'll give them that.Dahlianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-44197811581827712282013-10-19T13:44:48.144-04:002013-10-19T13:44:48.144-04:00Feel better, agnostic!
Feel better, agnostic!<br /><br />asnoreply@blogger.com