Showing posts with label food production. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food production. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Selling Cloned Red Meat is a Bad Idea: More Research Needs to be Done

The FDA is claiming that meat from cloned cows is safe to eat. I think they're being way too hasty in even talking about it right now. They have to do much more research.

It's bad enough that they've allowed bio-engineered products into the U.S. food markets. I disagreed with that decision too. How do we know that those products aren't contributing to the obesity epidemic that has been underway?

They rushed that decision too, without taking the time to fully research what happens to people who eat these products compared to what happens to people who don't.

I will go vegetarian before I eat cloned animal meat.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

After Months of Denial, China Shuts Down 180 Food Processing Plants Caught Using Banned Chemicals: Problem is Very Serious

More proof that we need to de-internationalize critical parts of our food supply:

China conducted an investigation into why pet food, toothpaste and other products were contaminated. They found that substances such as formaldehyde, illegal/banned dyes, and industrial wax were being used in the production of pickles, candy, crackers and seafood, among other things.

180 factories violating rules have been shut down. An additional 152,000 factories were shut down by another Chinese agency for doing the same thing over the last year. There are still 850,000 factories (mostly small operations) that Chinese authorities need to look at.

Formaldehyde??! As a preservative??! I wonder what that will do to global cancer rates.

This is probably just the tip of the iceberg as there are many more factories that need to be looked at. At least they're not denying the problem anymore. What a mess.