The Times They Are A Changing

You’d think in this day and age that lead paint on children’s toys would be enough for consumers to say “No to China.” We know the greedy companies that buy products from China and resell to us are just doing business as usual. And you would think our own government would have checks in place to prevent this from happening. But, apparently the heads of our government are as greedy and in bed with big business. Well, that’s not hard to figure out. Now we have this huge economical crisis. It saddens me to say that all of this is somehow interconnected. I’m just trying to put the puzzle pieces together. And I wonder even if I do, will it make any difference.? Can I or any of us do anything at this point?

Then our pets were being murdered as they found melamine in their food. Food that came from China. What was so surprising was that some of the U.S. brands touted their “better” nutrition value. Then it was found in human food - babies milk. But, China was poisoning it’s own babies as well. 53,000 of them have become sick and 4 have died from the tainted powdered infant product. Does that surprise us very much. After all, China was the country that made a law saying each couple could only have one child. Parents, knowing if they had a girl would have no one to care for them in their old age, either abandoned their baby daughters or in unbelievable circumstances killed them.

The other day, I heard that a well known candy company, Cadbuary, had melamine in their chocolate. At that point I thinking, how does this continue. How does this substance get put in food that is sent over for us to consume and nobody (no U.S. governmental agency) is checking this. Unbelievable.

This morning I read an article about a Lipton tea product that melamine was found in. Gratefully it hadn’t made it’s way to the U.S. yet. But it was found in Hong Kong. And, here is one that I haven’t seen in the news, the King Car Food Industrial Company recalled some of their coffee and tea products sold in the U.S. They contained creamer contaminated with melamine. And White Rabbit Cream candy from Guanshengyuan. The candy has been found to contain melamine from China.

Well, I suppose it’s possible none of us will be able to afford much food as our economy sinks to the bottom of the U.S. bucket anyway. Not exactly a blessing and it probably won’t save us from the Chinese in other ways since much of the money we barrow is from China.