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SARS. Bird flu. Contaminated dog food. Contaminated pharmaceuticals. Chickens held off the market. Pigs dying. “Food fear” is real. There is and should be real fear about the way China, or at least many Chinese firms involved, handle their responsibilities in food and feed manufacturing and development. Every once in a while a journalist gets to go back into the archieves and find something that was “relevant then and even more important now”. On Sunday, May 4, 2003, The Washington Times published an article I wrote about SARS. To refresh the memory, SARS is Acute Respiratory Syndrome. That May 2003 piece was titled “China’s Ham-Handed SARS Response: Omen of The Future In Disease Control?” The following are some of the quotes or “out takes” from that 2003 essay: “China is a particularly dangerous nation when envisioning the future of viral infections.” “It seems as if the Chinese were very slow to react once people started to get sick and die ….. It might have taken the Chinese government two months to even admit that there was a problem.” “The disease spread to Beijing and Shanghai. Government officials basically fired the mayor of Beijing and his health minister for their apparent cover-up of the extent and importance of the disease.” “In Chagugang town, up to 2000 villagers torched a school earmarked as a SARS quarantine center. The villagers didn’t want the SARS infected in their neighborhood.” “We also learned that China lacks sufficient medications, medical staff and hospital facilities to properly service their own population.” “The World Health Organization estimated that only about 4% of China’s medical professions were prepared for a disease like SARS.” “SARS deaths are still on the rise in China even though they have stabilized or fallen in Singapore, Vietnam and elsewhere.” “China has not had a methodical, rigid, disciplined approach to solving this problem. China produced lots of furious activity but much of it ineffective and only for show. Big headlines boasted that all movie theaters, internet café’s, etc. were closed. But if you really wanted to look around and find an internet café open for business you could. As you enter, they wash your hands with disinfectant and give you a face mask. These are questionable prevention techniques at best. Isolation by quarantine has proven to be the most effective prevention and control method.” “My colleague in China e-mailed me from an internet café in Beijing right after every newspaper there claimed that the cafes were closed.” http://peace-and-freedom.blogspot.com/ John E. Carey is the former president of International Defense Consultants, Inc.
Amanda is a managing editor at OpEdNews and has worked with Rob Kall on the site since 2004. Amanda is currently on sabbatical.
Before we start accusing China ...we need to clean up our own 'culture of corruption.' Just because your septic tank is full doesn't give you a right to crap in your neighbors yard. by
Amanda Lang (22 articles, 13333 quicklinks, 424 diaries, 556 comments)
on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 at 4:52:52 PM
An Ugly Ogre Named John. Hey John, you like writing alot of stuff about China. How about coming to China and live for awhile. I have been living here 6 years now. You don't know what you are talking about. You are part of the problem, sounding off over the fence without really knowing your talk. That is America for you...nothing but lies in the media, with no real basis. You like living and supporting a lying murdering Bush government by all means continue on your journey. Bush people like to make diseases and unleash them into societies to kill off people, then blame governments they don't like. Just ask Americans about their anthrax sars epidemic. China has been on this planet for over 5,000 years compared to the USA with 231 years. They know things Americans know nothing about. They are healthy warm loving people. In fact America is undeveloped, not China. They don't poison their food, like greedy Americans. Why not stop the Bush people who orchestrated 911 killing thousands of Americans that day to wage a false war in the world on terror. by
Dom Jermano (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 40 diaries, 934 comments)
on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 at 6:02:28 PM
A thinking activist pre-boomer.
China and US are bound by US debt China bashing is definitely in the air and appreciate ikster's viewpoint. Thumbs up to meaningful discussion! by
zephyr (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 53 comments)
on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 2:54:35 AM
A thinking activist pre-boomer.
Why is our pet food made in China? Am I going nuts? Don't we pay farmers not to raise certain foods and require them to grow other foods? Like genetically mutated corn, soy, and on. When small town American midwest is dying, grains are not even processed in USA? How can we let the corporate food monsters ruin our country? by
zephyr (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 53 comments)
on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 2:48:59 AM
Middle aged Canadian male who is more than a little dissapointed in the direction of the U.S.
Food Supply Zephyr raises an excellent point. If you want a secure food supply, keep it under the control of people you know and trust. Why isn't more food grown and processed in the U.S.? Probably because of trade agreements that benefit corporations. Business seems to count more than people these days. by
Doug Roberts (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 8 comments)
on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 8:04:22 AM
The world will never be a safe place until China is free of the communist regime.The Chinese people want democracy freedom culture and peace. So does the West.Only by peacefully turning our back on the communist regime can the Chinese people realize a True Chinese renaissance is within their sights.A new era is before us lets together choose goodness over evil peace over violence love over hate. The Chinese Need Freedom Before the 2008 Olympic Games.
Thank you John I must thank you John for your honesty and courage to reveal atrocities that almost every editorial staff will not comment on. The problem with China is the communist regime who are antihuman atheists with no regard / respect for anything other than money/trade. The Chinese communist regime will fall and soon . Large cracks are appearing and can no longer be contained. Like Pompei all that will be left of the CCP is dust. There is abundent life after the CCP. Because main stream media does not report critically on China most people do not know the truth of what is happening in China today. But i can assure that the 2 things the communist regime are most concerned about are social instability (which is due to the inequality of living standards) and resilience of the Falun Gong movement inside and outside of China. Please check this site out for verification of over 22 million Chinese people having already quit the CCP Mainstream news have all been copted by the Chinese communist regime, Rupert Murdoch brings great shame to journalism and to business ethics. So please all those who are critical of Johns good honest reporting you all need need to search around a little more. Please never forget that the unelected Chinese communist regime is a brutal killing machine . We in the west can vote our elected politicians out but the poor Chinese people cannot. The Chinese communist regime must go and what will be left is a free China, and a return to a cultural inspiring China. Please check out my site for more news on A Chinese cultural Renaissance by
Jana (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 3 comments)
on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 10:51:43 PM
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