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The people that make the stuff that we buy - 7/12/2007 12:11:12 PM

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"Chinese food 'made from cardboard'"
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/12/cardboard.food.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

I hate to slam a whole people, but after the pet food debacle and stuff like this I have to wonder about the scruples of the Chinese people as a whole. Apparently they are willing to feed poison to our pets, to their neighbors, whomever - all to turn the quick buck.

Didn't they just execute their version of the head of the FDA? It looks like his attitude is less isolated and more endemic than we would like to believe.

Now I am sure there are plenty of chinese people that wouldn't do these things, but what the fuck explains this kind of thing and the fact that it keeps happening?

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RE: The people that make the stuff that we buy - 7/12/2007 12:22:08 PM

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And it's not just the Chinese, what about the American companies who set up shop there and then export that poison to the U.S. and other countries?
Boy, this "Global Economy" just keeps getting better and better doesn't it?
After Bush goes we need to get out of all these "trade" deals and bring manufacturing back to this country.

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RE: The people that make the stuff that we buy - 7/12/2007 12:25:45 PM

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I agree with that, not only to get a better quality of products, but also to bring back employment where it belongs. People say that our ecomony is doing better, but frankly I don't see it.

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RE: The people that make the stuff that we buy - 7/12/2007 12:55:32 PM

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I agree with you both.

From the standpoint of national security I'd like to see our monetary system, energy industries, and food supplies entirely in house (I'll not hold my breath for any of that).

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RE: The people that make the stuff that we buy - 7/12/2007 1:41:03 PM

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At the same time as insisting that other countries buy your goods and services?

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RE: The people that make the stuff that we buy - 7/12/2007 2:14:17 PM

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They don't need our dollars, don't have to use our energy (which we will most likely use up ourselves), and while we supply ourselves with our own food we might have extras - so sure, trade would be possible. This short list of goods is hardly everything that might be traded internationally. Maintaining a healthy autonomy as respects certain necessities is hardly a trade calamity nor even an impediment to trade of any kind.

It just means we wouldn't require these few things from others. What's the objection to that?

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RE: The people that make the stuff that we buy - 7/12/2007 2:42:31 PM

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ORIGINAL: philosophy

At the same time as insisting that other countries buy your goods and services?

philosophy, nope, not at all!
I couldn't care less if foreign countries buy our products.
I think your question should be directed to the Big Corporations that want that.
They're the ones that want that not the American People.

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RE: The people that make the stuff that we buy - 7/12/2007 2:59:55 PM

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I think it is the Chinese equivalent of a hotdog.....I really don't want to know what's in side those "cardboard" Baozis, all I know is that they are fucking delicious!!!

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RE: The people that make the stuff that we buy - 7/12/2007 5:37:36 PM

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At the same time as insisting that other countries buy your goods and services?

philosophy:
I think other countries should be allowed to buy our goods and services not forced.
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RE: The people that make the stuff that we buy - 7/19/2007 12:23:35 PM

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Follow up:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/18/china.health.fake.reut/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Hmmm, I'm not satisfied that the story is entirely made up based on the new article, but it does seem the reporter engaged in some collusion in the original story.

My question is: who understood the process of the original story's recipe and put that into effect? Providing cardboard to someone that already performs the process as a source of income seems like small potatoes to me.

I'd love to know the story was truly fake. Maybe they can retract that whole poison pet food thing too.

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