Foods from China: "60 minutes" show...

[Lynn49]

Once again I'm not certain where to put this, but I thought the more people who know about it, the better...personally I don't buy foods labelled from China or "prepared for Canada", etc, and now I'm even more happy with that decision...read on...:

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative...d-2877158.html

[Patty Smyth]

Not sure what to say

I just was watching a video of dog and cat markets in China. Seems they will eat anything.

[TaraF]

The scary thing is....it seems everything is made in China! A HEADS UP for those savvy cross border shoppers!:

"The department announced late last month that it had certified four production facilities in China as equivalent to similar plants in the United States. As a result, chicken growers in the United States, Canada and Chile could soon send their poultry to these Chinese facilities where the meat could be processed and then shipped back to the United States primarily for use in products like potpies or noodle soups. In most cases, consumers will not know where the chicken was processed; labels could be necessary if the frozen chicken parts are sold directly to consumers."

[xlxo]

Sadly....

• hopefully food inspectors check the product before it arrives on local shelves.
• if you Google "your supermarket chain bad meat", there's a lot of bad practices out there.

[coyote00]

Must say I was surprised about Green Giant and Europe's Best

[Lynn49]

Not sure what to say

I just was watching a video of dog and cat markets in China. Seems they will eat anything.

Ever walk through a Chinese market? I'm sure you have...I said to my hubby...They'll eat anything!!
So their stomachs' will be like iron, and we'll all be getting sicker and sicker...one way to get rid of us, I guess....

And so agree, Coyote; Green Giant and EUROPE'S Best?! I guess more label reading is in order...which just goes to show us how important our local markets, IF the food is actually 'local', are for us. I guess I'll be doing more canning this fall....

[lecale]

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[GoJays]

Time to start my own farm, I think. Who's with me?

[Natalka]

Sigh, though we have to be careful and informed - from reliable news sources - this article has been going around for a while already

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/chinese-f...t-screed.shtml

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/tilapia.asp

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Product of Canada and Made in Canada regulations

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/...n/queste.shtml

Guide to labelling

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/food/lab.../1300118996556

[Shwa Girl]

Time to start my own farm, I think. Who's with me?

We are thinking of doing tomatoes, peppers and herbs this summer.
We can't do the fish, beef or chicken though. Oshawa laws.

[Lynn49]

http://madeinusanews.com/2013/09/16/...ia-from-china/


And from SNOPES...http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/tilapia.asp
Similarly, an October 2012 Bloomberg article observed that the FDA had rejected 820 Chinese seafood shipments since 2007, including 187 that contained tilapia, and furnished examples of the practice of using manure as feed for farmed fish in China:At Chen Qiang's tilapia farm in Yangjiang city in China's Guangdong province, which borders Hong Kong, Chen feeds fish partly with feces from hundreds of pigs and geese. That practice is dangerous for American consumers, says Michael Doyle, director of the University of Georgia’s Center for Food Safety.

"The manure the Chinese use to feed fish is frequently contaminated with microbes like salmonella," says Doyle, who has studied foodborne diseases in China.

On a sweltering, overcast day in August, the smell of excrement is overpowering. After seeing dead fish on the surface, Chen, 45, wades barefoot into his murky pond to open a pipe that adds fresh water from a nearby canal. Exporters buy his fish to sell to U.S. companies.

Yang Shuiquan, chairman of a government-sponsored tilapia aquaculture association in Lianjiang, 200 kilometers from Yangjiang, says he discourages using feces as food because it contaminates water and makes fish more susceptible to diseases. He says a growing number of Guangdong farmers adopt that practice anyway because of fierce competition.

"Many farmers have switched to feces and have stopped using commercial feed," he says.

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/...Etkxu7BAM38.99




China has some 200 million farming households with average land holdings of 1-2 acres per farm and at least 400,000 food processing enterprises, most with 10 or fewer employees. Millions of people and businesses are involved in the handling and transportation of food beyond the farm gate. The vast number of food suppliers increases the challenge of disseminating standards, monitoring production, and tracing problems to their source.

The "bold" is mine: until we can be sure that all 400,000 fish farming enterprises are falling within the guidelines I want for myself and my family, I'll stay away from imported talapia.

And from:
http://www.businessinsider.com/disgu...ulture-2012-10

Philpott goes on to explain that the US FDA does very little testing — about 2.7 percent of incoming aquaculture is visually inspected, and even less, about 0.1 percent is tested for toxins.

Again, "bold" is mine: .1% is tested. That instills confidence!!!

[Lynn49]

More:

http://worldtruth.tv/imported-chines...ised-on-feces/

Asked to estimate what percentage of Chinese tilapia are raised using animal feces as food, Doyle said “I’d say roughly 50 percent.”Feeding fish animal feces makes them highly susceptible to bacterial infections like salmonella and E.coli, Doyle said. Furthermore, he said that the large amount of antibiotics that are given to the fish to ward off infections makes the strains of salmonella and E.coli that the fish do catch extremely hard to eliminate.“It’s incredible to see how much of these antibiotics are applied, and they leave large residues of antibiotics in the ponds,” Doyle said. “We have multiple antibiotic-resistant strains of salmonella coming in with these fish.”

[lecale]

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