Comments on: NYT: When fakery turns fatal

By: MaKo

MaKo — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:01:44 +0000

Comment by BengalMom — June 6, 2007 @ 5:40 am

Am I the only one who fails to see any ‘celebrities’ raising their voices about this scandal?

Big Money does have some influence, my my…

:) Fortunately, *I* have the thumbscrews for Big Money in my pocket, errrr, wallet. A rich big multinational company is big, rich and multinational because we pay for it.

Right now, I am in the refusal-mode and I revised my shopping and spending habits.

Without my money BigMoney will run out of money - they need me more than I need them.

Time to let them know.

By: Peggy (AKA: Big Fat Momma Cat)

Peggy (AKA: Big Fat Momma Cat) — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:47:58 +0000

That should be: I *can’t* be the only one that remembers Watergate.

To much blood boiling without enough coffee, sorry.

By: Peggy (AKA: Big Fat Momma Cat)

Peggy (AKA: Big Fat Momma Cat) — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:44:57 +0000

That’s all fine and great if we have a movie made. But for now we need in depth investigative reporting. As in NOW! I can be the only one that remembers Watergate. I wasn’t even all that old back then. But I know it was Reporters that broke that and found out what was going on and pressed the issue. Are there no investigative reporters, anymore? That Karen, she does good, but seems all alone. Don’t reporters have pets? Don’t they have to eat food, themselves? Where are they??

Itchmo, they are trying real hard. Gina and Christie do wonders keeping us informed, along with Theresa and Kim. And Karen, as I mentioned. But that’s it. Where is 60 minutes, Anderson Cooper, Nightline, anyone else that ‘calls’ themselves ‘a hard hitting investigate reporters’.

Where Are They??

By: VJ

VJ — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:26:02 +0000

Comment by BengalMom June 6 2007 5:40am
I agree with you. Michael Moore may not be liked by a lot of people but he surely has a way to get the information out there and the point across.
Maybe he’d get another award winner for doing this.

By: BengalMom

BengalMom — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:40:55 +0000

IMO, I think this entire food debacle would be a fantastic topic for that radical filmmaker, Michael Moore, to tackle! He could really do some good by presenting this topic to the public. There are still so many people who are clueless. It might even force the politicians to quit sitting on their hands and do something about it!

By: Don

Don — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:14:12 +0000

RE: post 2

It is driven by entrepreneurs who are taking advantage of a weak legal system, lax regulations and a business culture where bribery and corruption are rampant.

Begging your pardon, but there is no need for alternate terms for that to describe our system. Do you really believe it is possible for three private citizens to spend less than a thousand dollars between them, to identify a substance deadly to pets, when a three month long, multi million dollar US government investigation failed to do so?

By: Nadine Long

Nadine Long — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:35:40 +0000

“Americans used as guinea pigs”

Idaho Mountain Express - Wednesday, June 6, 2007

“Life has always been cheap in mainland communist China. During dictator Mao Zedong’s post-World War II Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward, some 60 million Chinese are believed to have died—perhaps 20 million due to starvation, the remainder in purges of Mao’s political opponents resisting his Marxist tyranny.

The low regard for life is showing up in China’s indifference to food safety. But that can’t explain the U.S. government’s lax inspection of imported foods.”

http://tinyurl.com/2fwt9r

By: Nadine Long

Nadine Long — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:00:55 +0000

“A Billion Red Chinese Can Be Wrong”
Yes Weekly, Greensboro, NC: http://tinyurl.com/29tehb

By: TC

TC — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:34:38 +0000

MaKo - I have feathers in my pillows, and bet I could find some tar out here, boy I’d be first in line:)

You make a great point re how we all can make individual contributions to the cessation of trade with offending nations.

I too have stopped trading with China regarding food. Now if only we had meaningful labels so I could root out all the remaining Chinese products in my pantry (and some from India as well).

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:08:11 +0000

I think I read that our federal deficit is funded partly by money borrowed from China! If the government gets too rowdy with them, they can call the loans.

I’m a business owner who used to have loans with banks. They believe they OWN you and try to tell you what to do, when to do it and how to do it. So if China is doing that to our country, I wouldn’t expect a lot of help from the government.

So I think it’s up to us consumers and private businesses not to spend our money there. It will speak louder than anything else.