Category: china
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I’m Confused
I've been hearing about an economic stimulus package, what a name for a plan to give our money back to us, for a little while now. Now we are seeing an actual plan from <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ECONOMY_STIMULUS?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">bothe the House and Senate</a>.<br />n<br />nI'm a little confused by this "economic stimulus plan" and how it is going…
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Pressure
I see China is trying to pressure the US into <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/18/business/AS-FIN-China-US-Food-Scrutiny.php">accepting more tainted food</a> by blocking American imports into their country.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>China has sharply increased inspections of imported U.S. food, escalating its spat with Washington over product safety and leaving American beef piling up in warehouses and delaying shipments of black pepper and…
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Troublesome
I found <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/15/AR2007091501647.html">this article</a> about pig disease in China very troublesome. I read it yesterday morning and had to let it run around my pea sized brain for a while but it struck me as a problem.<br />n<br />nWhat's so troublesome about it? China is so worried about making money off the vaccine for…
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China’s Cattle
I found <a href="http://www.capitalpress.info/main.asp?SectionID=94&SubSectionID=801&ArticleID=35109&TM=77478.55">this article</a> about the possible competition from China for the beef industry interesting. Am I overly worried about China importing meat to the US? No. Where I see the problem coming is the competition in some of the foreign markets like Japan and South Korea that China could give us. That seems…
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Brain Dead
You want to talk about people who can't think, I have found an example. Here recently, as I am sure you are aware, There was a big problem with <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2611-Where-Does-The-Problem-Begin.html">melamine contamination</a> from some ingredients from China. It now appears an American company that manufactures feed for livestock and fish <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/30/AR2007053002227.html">also uses melamine</a> in…
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Food Safety
Activist always talk about American farmers and ranchers producing unsafe food. There is always something wrong with it according to them. You want to read about unsafe food, read this story about <a href="http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/04/14/ap/health/d8ofbfrg1.txt">food safety and China</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Worried about losing access to foreign markets and stung by tainted food products scandals at home, China…
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Sad News
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061213/ap_on_sc/china_dolphin_extinction" >Rare white dolphin declared as extinct</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A rare, nearly blind white dolphin that survived for millions of years is effectively extinct, an international expedition declared Wednesday after ending a fruitless six-week search of its Yangtze River habitat.<br />n<br />nThe baiji would be the first large aquatic mammal driven to extinction since hunting…
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Evil Americans
Those Evil Americans are at it again, polluting the planet.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061023/ap_on_re_as/china_river_pollution" >Chinese river mysteriously turns red</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A half-mile section of China's Yellow River turned "red and smelly" after an unknown discharge was poured into it from a sewage pipe, state media said Monday.<br />n<br />nThe incident in Lanzhou, a city of 2…
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The Great Polluter
I always find it interesting that us Americans are all evil when it comes to pollution and the rest of the world is all good. With that thought in mind I present this.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_LEAD_POISONING?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Brain damage likely for 4 Chinese kids</a><br />n<br />nThe amazing thing about this story, it didn't happen in the…
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Another Thought on the USDA
One of the whole reasons behind the push for the National Animal Identification System (<acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>) by the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> is animal diseases such as bird flu. Yesterday <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/1508-<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for…