Who, in their right mind, ever would have thought the U.S. would be importing cooked Chinese chicken meat with all the chickens produced and processed in this country [1]? Well, we are, and you can chalk it up to a seemingly quid pro quo deal penned by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue [2] and a deal whereby the Chinese agreed to accept U.S. beef imports after a thirteen year Chinese hiatus due to a “mad cow disease” scare.
Investigative journalist Martha Rosenberg published her findings about Chinese food production, and it’s not an appetizing picture, as you can read here.
Rosenberg reminds us
China has sold rat meat billed as lamb, gutter oil billed as cooking oil and baby formula contaminated with melamine. In the U.S. its pet food killed many dogs and cats in 2007.
Martha also points out “FDA Loophole Allows Possibly Dangerous Chemicals in Food,” another reason for purchasing and eating an organically-grown diet, in my opinion, as a retired healthcare professional and researcher/author.
In that article Martha says, “Many China imports are rejected because of “pesticides, bacteria and filth,” say officials,” which I must “second,” agree with and coincidentally referred to in my 2009 book.
In Chapter 13 “The China Trade Debacle: Toxic and ‘Made in China’” of Our Chemical Lives And The Hijacking Of Our DNA, A Probe Into What’s Probably Making Us Sick, I pointed out a ‘litany’ of food problems, which I think consumers ought to know, so I’ll list some of them here:
In that same chapter on Chinese-produced commodities, I covered glycerin used in pharmaceuticals; defective Chinese drywall; pesticide production; tires prone to tread separation; plus a one-and-a-half book-page-listing of “Dangerous, Faulty, or Toxic Products” associated with Chinese production.
One would hope the USDA, FDA and other federal agencies would impose stricter oversight and even do product sampling or testing before allowing food products into the U.S. marketplace.
As Martha Rosenberg points out, there seems to be some sort of dichotomous thinking going on about food safety in the USA. According to Agriculture Secretary Perdue, “The good thing about it is our food safety inspection agency, in the USDA, does a marvelous job.”
Now here’s a dichotomy, if there ever was one, which Secretary Perdue ought to clarify:
According to officials, many China imports are rejected because of ‘pesticides, bacteria and filth.’
However, Martha claims, “By the FDA’s own audit, six out of eight of the certifiers did not even know what drugs and chemicals were approved in U.S. exports. Yet a quick look at how the U.S. government ensures the safety of imported shrimp, much of it from Asia, raises many doubts.”
Bon appétit!
References:
[1] http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/current/PoulProdVa/PoulProdVa-04-28-2017.pdf , Pg. 5
[2] https://www.usda.gov/our-agency/about-usda/our-secretary
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melamine
Catherine J Frompovich (website) is a retired natural nutritionist who earned advanced degrees in Nutrition and Holistic Health Sciences, Certification in Orthomolecular Theory and Practice plus Paralegal Studies. Her work has been published in national and airline magazines since the early 1980s. Catherine authored numerous books on health issues along with co-authoring papers and monographs with physicians, nurses, and holistic healthcare professionals. She has been a consumer healthcare researcher 35 years and counting.
Catherine’s latest book, published October 4, 2013, is Vaccination Voodoo, What YOU Don’t Know About Vaccines, available on Amazon.com.
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