Chinese despair at endless food-safety scares
China is investigating claims vegetable sellers are spraying cabbage with harmful formaldehyde to keep it fresh, an official said on May 8, in yet another food-safety scare to hit the country.
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Christopher Glenn · Top Commenter · Badger, California
The water to farmers in California has been cut off by the EPA to preserve a worthless minnow. Senators Boxer and Feinstein support the eco-terrorists who want to turn California back into a desert instead of the food basket of the world that it is. Then we can buy all our food from China and Mexico, where we sell all the pesticides that we outlaw for use in the US. Smart plan.
mcrawspace4 (signed in using yahoo)
I understand your point of view but I don't think that was the case when all of the orange groves disappeared from Orange County. They were replaced by housing developments and strip malls in the name of profit and tax revenue. There just isn't enough profit in a food basket, that is also why California farmland is shrinking. Just like everything else, it's cheaper to buy from China and boosting profits is all corporations and governments care about.
