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After poisoned animal feed product arrived on our pet food shelves from China, we were outraged. But according to Hong Kong residents, they have tolerated substandard and potentially harmful Chinese food products for decades.

From vegetables laced with too many pesticides to meat and fish loaded with controlled drugs and industrial chemicals, foodstuffs from the mainland have often presented risks for consumers in Hong Kong, experts say.

China has strict rules governing food meant for export, but is less particular about produce intended for its domestic market, Fred Li, a legislator who sits on a legislative committee on food safety said.

If the poisoned animal feed exported is any indication of their ’strict rules” for exported food, I can only imagine what kind of non-existent rules are in place for food meant for domestic consumption is!

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I”m at a total loss for words regarding this news report. Total loss! I don’t understand this supposed “logic.” I”m always open to education, so if any body can help me understand this, my mind is open!

The headlines read in the “People’s Daily Online”, “Mammoth shark caught in Shandong.”

Here is the extent of the report:
“A super large shark, which is 4.5 meters long, 2.6 meters round and weighs 630 kilograms, was caught by fishermen in Rizhao, east China’s Shandong province on Monday morning. Such a big shark is extremely rare. It indicates the coastal waters’ quality has been improved.”

Can someone please explain to this middle aged hippie how the capture and killing of this “super large shark” indicates “the coastal waters’ quality has been improved.”

WTF? No, seriously WTFF? Are these people so f**cking ignorant that they think their coastal waters have been improved hence the presence of a “super large shark?”

Hey, (expletives deleted out of respect for the sane reader) quit polluting your rivers and coastal waters, and leave the f**king sharks alone!

Here’s some pictures from the report for your viewing disgust:

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Here I go, another rant about China again. My views have already been censored by their firewall, so one more rant about their political/environmental policies isn’t going to make a bit of difference anyway. It’s everybody else in the world that should sit up and take notice of what’s happening in China.

Let”s see, where to start? First, there’s Shark Finning. Then there is the extraordinary amount of pollutants being dispensed into the atmosphere and water systems as China struggles to keep up with it’s booming economy. The deadly H5N1 bird flu originated in China, thank you very much. Then there is the melamine laced wheat gluten that was imported to make pet food, which caused a reported 4,000 dog and cat deaths in the U.S. alone. And don’t forget about the imported poisoned medicine from China as well. And if that weren’t enough, how about the imported Catfish that upon testing contained fluoroquinolones, and antibiotic which was banned by the FDA in 1997.

Now to add to China’s already questionable safety of it’s food industry, the Ministry of Commerce has issued new rules for pig slaughterhouses to protect people’s health and the quality of it’s pork products.

Industry officials said on Wednesday melamine scrap was unlikely to be linked to the unusually serious outbreak of PRRS, or blue ear disease, among pigs in China. Yeah, right! Like Chinese officials can be trusted at this stage of the game!

About one million pigs have died from a variation of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome virus in an outbreak that began in May last year.
The virus is unlikely to spread to humans, leading veterinarians said on Wednesday.

This statement was followed by a comment from Wang Ruojun, who teaches animal nutrition at the College of Animal Science and Technology of the China Agricultural University, saying “The worst case is that they mix the melamine scrap, of which some elements could be poisonous to the animals.”

So which is it China, Safe or unsafe? Do you really know? Do you really care? For a country that is hosting the World”s most prestigious sporting event in a year, they have a lot of cleaning up to do in their own backyard!

Personally, I like to gamble, but only in Vegas! It seems as of late the odds are stacked against you if you consume anything that comes from China.

On a closing note, ViceZilla has determined that eating Shark Fin Soup causes ignorance to Social, Political, and Environmental problems!

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First it was tainted pet food. Now it’s contaminated Catfish.

What do these two things have in common? China. First it was discovered that certain ingredients used to make pet food, which was imported from China was contaminated with melamine. Now, the department of Agriculture in Alabama has discovered catfish imported from China to be tainted with a banned antibiotic.

Out of 20 samples collected, 14 tested positive for fluoroquinolones, an antibiotic banned by the FDA since 1997.

The story doesn’t report how much of the antibiotic was found in each sample, but I’m thinking that the recent reports of China’s Yangtze River being polluted beyond the point of ever recovering, no fish from China can be good for you.

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Wanna go fishing?

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An Environmental activist has been detained by Chinese police for pointing out worsening pollution at Tai lake from nearby chemical factories. The Tai lake has an area of 2,420 (934 sq. miles) square kilometers, and is home to over 60 types of fish and other aquatic life. Wu Lihong’s wife told reporters, “All my husband did was try to save the environment and make more people aware of the situation at the lake.”

Detention and harassment of activists of any kind in China is nothing new. But what makes this story so strange is that two years ago, Wu was a candidate in a national campaign to name 10 people who “moved China” in their services to society.

Once again the Chinese Government is trying to sweep their garbage under the carpet, hoping nobody recognizes the growing pile of garbage they are trying to hide. With China being put under the world’s microscope when it hosts the 2008 summer Olympics, you would think they would spend more time cleaning up their backyard, rather than silence their critics who are trying to help.

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