From The China Daily, Debasish Roy Chowdhury whines, But the product scares and recalls the US media seems fixated on are the ones from China. It is the faulty tires, toothpaste, pet food, seafood and toys with a China connection that are making all the news, with cover stories, editorials and television programs harping on how China's "substandard" manufacturing methods are putting American consumers at risk, how the factory to the world is actually one big sham, and proffering ways to keep off products with any trace of China.
Chowdhury completely ignores the fact that the Chinese deliberately introduced Melamine into our pets food in order to spike profits. It wasn't an accident, they deliberately poisoned our pets resulting in the deaths of thousands of pets. That is what most Americans are angry about. That our pets were sacrificed to the "Gods of Profit" and that it was a deliberate and cruel act that showed a wanton disregard for the health of the pets and people who consumed the Melamine spiked gluten. And BTW it is Menu Foods that is being sued by pet owners, a fact the Chinese seem to ignore in their rush to claim that the problem is xenophobia not their products.
Then why pick on China? In a way China is paying the price for its success.
It is difficult to ignore the xenophobic, and even racist, overtones in the attacks against China. When the products are made in the US, it is just the company that is in focus. When they are found to have a China connection, even if it is an American company getting its products made in China, it is the country that takes the lashes. As if the company has no obligation toward quality control.
It is difficult to ignore the xenophobic, and even racist, overtones in the attacks against China. When the products are made in the US, it is just the company that is in focus. When they are found to have a China connection, even if it is an American company getting its products made in China, it is the country that takes the lashes. As if the company has no obligation toward quality control.
Because you killed our pets!!!!!
And because you did it deliberately, this was in The New York Times (April 30, 2007)
“ Many companies buy melamine scrap to make animal feed, such as fish feed,” said Ji Denghui, general manager of the Fujian Sanming Dinghui Chemical Company, which sells melamine. “I don’t know if there’s a regulation on it. Probably not. No law or regulation says ‘don’t do it,’ so everyone’s doing it. The laws in China are like that, aren’t they? If there’s no accident, there won’t be any regulation.”
Excuse me but refusing to buy products from a country that allows poison to be put into food isn't xenophobic or racist, it's good common sense and I refuse to apologize for it.
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