ViceZilla’s Views

Now I’ve heard everything! In the wake of Mattel Inc. issuing a recall of 1.5 million Fisher-Price toys because their paint contained lead, China is accusing us of being alarmists!

China seems to be worried about it’s reputation, and it’s “made in China” label, whereas we, the consumer are worried about ours and our children’s safety.

China’s exports are getting worse in terms of their quality and safety standards. Poison in the pet food ingredients was only the tip of the ice berg. It was soon followed by tainted seafood, then drugs and toothpaste, now its toys that are painted with lead based paint! Yes, lead paint, that we are supposed to let our children play with!

China can accuse us and call us whatever they like, it really makes no matter to me, because as long as they continue to export poison they won’t be seeing anymore of my money. If it says “Made in China”, or “Product of China”, it won’t be coming home with me. I would also urge everyone to also consider this boycott. Put your money where your mouth is. Its for our Children’s safety now!

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As China struggles with it’s image after countless news reports of tainted and poisoned food exports, it is now trying to profit from one thing they have plenty of, and that’s poo.

Yes, you heard me correctly. China’s food exports has recently been crap anyway, so now they want to market it properly, so people know exactly what they are getting. And this is just in time for the Olympics. Or rather it is because of the Olympics.

As the 2008 Olympics near, Chinese officials have come up with a grand scheme to profit from it. They have decided to make Olympic souvenirs made from poo! Not just any poo mind you, but real, authentic Panda Poo!

Researchers at a Wildlife research centre have started sculpting photo frames, book marks, fans and panda statues out of the 300 tonnes of poo that is produced annually by it’s 60 giant pandas. Holy crap, that’s a lotta poo!

So for the Olympics they have started molding the poo into statues of athletic pandas performing various Olympic sports.

Now I don’t know a lot about pandas, but one thing I do know is that they are NOT very athletic!

Now before you get on Alibaba.com and place your pre-order, there is one thing you should know. Jing Shimin, assistant to the director of the base, proudly declared that the souvenirs would be relatively odor-free.

“They don’t smell too bad because 70 percent of the dung is just remains of the bamboo that the pandas are unable to digest,” he told Xinhua news agency.

“Relatively?” Just what is he comparing the odor to?

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Scotland has the Loch Ness Monster, Canada has Ogopogo, and now China’s Loch Ness monster has been sighted.

Or so Chinese state-run television says. Not just one, but more than a dozen huge creatures can be seen churning across Lake Kanasi in remote western China, leaving a foamy wake more like an enormous motorboat than a big fish.

The grainy film shows about 15 objects moving at high speed just beneath the surface of the lake and whipping the smooth blue water into a bubbling white frenzy. Chinese Central Television broadcast the video on its news channel, describing the footage shot by a passing tourist on July 5 as the clearest ever seen of a legendary beast that has been rumored for centuries to live in the depths of Lake Kanasi.

Professor Yuan believes that a lot more research is needed although China lacks the scientific equipment to make further studies. And it would be impossible to catch a fish of this size. “This fish will have tremendous strength.”

Personally I find this hard to believe because as we all know if it swims, slithers or crawls, some chef in mainland China would have made a meal out of it and sold it for a ridiculous amount of money! Or possibly the fins of this mysterious creature are tasteless and high in mercury content, thus making it a perfect soup ingredient!

Only one way to find out; get a Japanese fleet in there to do some “scientific fishing”, that should to do it!

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Just when you thought you’ve heard everything coming out of China in terms of what they won’t eat.

Another popular culinary craze in China has emerged. It is called “yin yang fish”. The dish consists of a carp covered with sweet and sour sauce, its body deep fried, but its head is still twitching! Yes, they fry and serve a live, twitching fish!

Chefs who prepare this barbaric dish claim it shows the customers how very fresh their food is!

If torturing sharks by cutting their fins off while they are still alive weren’t bad enough, now they have to deep fry fish and serve it while it is still twitching! Barbaric practices indeed!

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Ever notice that there seems to be a recurring theme to the headlines in each day’s newspapers?

If it’s not Bush declaring “Executive Privilege” about one thing or another, it’s Cheney running roughshod over the laws and Constitution to cover his ass for one thing or another. Then there’s China.

The Chinese system of checks and balances, or the lack thereof continues to make the headlines on a regular basis. Like the two above examples, these stories are getting old and worn out, which is essentially saying it’s time to fix the problems, not just talk about fixing them!

Once again, the safety of China’s food exports has come under scrutiny because of harmful drugs and food additives found in the exported foods which were tested before entering the United States.

Today the FDA again banned the importation of Chinese farm-raised catfish, shrimp, basa, dace, and eel because they contained nitrofuran, malachite green, and fluoroquinolone, which the FDA said when used in food animals may increase antibiotic resistance to this critically important class of antibiotics.

First it was the pet food, then toothpaste, seafood, toys containing lead paint, then seafood again that China continues to send out to the world! This has got to stop.

Bottom line is, is if it says “made in China”, or “product of China”, and it’s meant to be taken internally, run like hell!

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