Comeuppance for Poisoned Pet Food Purveyors

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February 7, 2008 at 13:11:23

Comeuppance for Poisoned Pet Food Purveyors

by Sandy Sand Page 1 of 2 page(s)

http://www.opednews.com

Comeuppance for Poisoned Pet Food Purveyors

Chinese, U.S. companies indicted for distributing toxic pet food. Too little, but it's a start in prosecuting all companies that poison us, our children and pets regardless of country.

Two Chinese companies and one in the United States were indicted on February 6th, for manufacture and distribution of tainted pet food that sickened and/or killed numerous pet dogs last year, raising grave concerns about products made in China and elsewhere outside the U.S.

Here at home, Sally Quing Miller, a Chinese national, and her husband, Stephen S. Miller, owners of ChemNutra located in Las Vegas, Nevada, were charged with 27 counts that applied to the tainted pet food.

The indictments were brought by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Kansas City, Missouri, which said the tainted food led to the death and serious illness of pets in the U.S. last year.

Also indicted were Xuzhou Anying Biologic, China's Jiangsu province; and Suzhou Textiles, Suzhou, China. Thirteen counts of introducing adulterated food into interstate commerce, and 13 counts of misbranding food that was transported through interstate commerce were handed down against the two companies.

The charges against the Millers were separate, but related to the indictments of the two Chinese companies, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

With cauliflower at $6 a head in Los Angeles, and perusing the toy prices at Toys 'R Us, Target and WalMart, I don't see where either importing inferior goods or employing illegal alien laborers is reducing the price of anything.

Considering how often the "cheap" crap from overseas has to be replaced or repaired, there's no advantage...no money saved.

I'll pay double the going price for safe food that doesn't make me sick, because I'm already sick of worrying about whether the food I'm eating is safe, no matter where it comes from.

I'd also like to know why we're importing food anyway. Aren't we supposed to be the breadbasket [a term I hate] of the world. Don't we throw out more food in a day that some countries produce in a year?

Every day our garbage disposals gobble up enough food to feed a couple of third world countries.

Indictments all around for any company, corporation, drug manufacturer or individual that values its bottom line above the over-all health of this nation's citizens.

This goes for the toxic pet food people, Mattel and all the purveyors of poisonous products, including our own home grown ones that are using toxic petroleum by-products in everything we use from cosmetics to drugs to food.

A real comeuppance would be that from now on, every bite of food they eat makes them sick as a dog!

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Professor Bagnolo is a Renaissance man: Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8.Later He was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and in Painting and a merit scholarship in art, and was appointed a Graduate ...

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Professor Emeritus Peter BagnoloProfessor Bagnolo is a Renaissance man: Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8.Later He was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and in Painting and a merit scholarship in art, and was appointed a Graduate ...

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Yeah, you tell them Girl! I have written about this often myself, as you know. I say tax the outsourcers and use the money to fund Health-care.

by Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (144 articles, 1 quicklinks, 95 diaries, 1220 comments) on Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 3:42:56 PM

Sandy Sand began her writing career while raising three children and doing public relations work for Women's American ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training). That led to a job as a reporter for the San Fernando Valley Chronicle, a weekly publication in Canoga Park, California. In conjunction with the Chronicle, she broadcast a tri-weekly, ten minuted newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspape...

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Sandy SandSandy Sand began her writing career while raising three children and doing public relations work for Women's American ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training). That led to a job as a reporter for the San Fernando Valley Chronicle, a weekly publication in Canoga Park, California. In conjunction with the Chronicle, she broadcast a tri-weekly, ten minuted newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspape...

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Yeah!

And single payer, too.

Everyone can buy into the same plan as Congress

buy into MediCare

Both Hill and Obama's plans suck. Only Kucinich had the right idea and wasn't afraid to take on the HMOs and pulverize them into dust just as they do to us watchdogging every appointment, procedure and pill.

by Sandy Sand (130 articles, 0 quicklinks, 153 diaries, 1174 comments) on Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 3:53:23 PM

Harpist, unemployed blue collar worker, and Bush basher living deep in the heart of Texas.
PappyHarpist, unemployed blue collar worker, and Bush basher living deep in the heart of Texas.

Can I hear an AMEN? How about a Halitosis...er hallelujah!

It's a start and about damn time, too. The price of supposedly cheap products from foreign countries is becoming too dear to pay. As a country of more than 300 million, when are we going stand up and cry with one voice and demand that Congress brings the jobs and the manufacturing home?

I agree. It's time to say adios to NAFTA and all the other FTA's out there, no matter their name. I know it's sort of heresy to say this, but there are more people in America than those who have seven to nine figure incomes. You can't have a vibrant economy with fifty million people living below the poverty line, and other untold, uncounted, un-cared-for millions sleeping under a bridge, under the stars, and maybe, under a snowdrift or two.

I fail to see how shipping jobs overseas helps anyone but those able to pay the ticket to make it happen in the first place. The less people that are spending money, the less money is in circulation. Oh, sure, you can print more money, and then you wind up with pretty strips of paper, barely worth the ink, rag, and time it took to make them.

There's a saying I've heard: "you can pay a man to eat shit, but eventually there comes a point where you can't pay him enough." I have been waiting for America to get to that point where they no longer like the tastes in their mouths, and dammit, I'm still waiting!

Considering how often the "cheap" crap from overseas has to be replaced or repaired, there's no advantage...no money saved.

And people like myself lose their livelihoods. While there has been a slow but steady rise in my business, which is repairing anything that runs on batteries, petrochemicals (or their "green" counterparts), or plugs into the wall, it's hard to get someone to pay fifty bucks to repair something that cost them thirty, or less.

They don't care if it takes a shit after six months, they'll just bebop on down to Wally World, and buy another sweatshop special. I guess it just doesn't make sense to me. If you spend a hundred bucks, and get a machine that works for three years before needing a repair of any sort, you are further ahead than if you are laying out thirty bucks every six months.

But people can't see past the end of their cell phones. If it's a good deal in the short run, and crappy in the long, so what? Money grows on trees, doncha know!

Anyway, great article, and I can't help but hope that maybe whoever wins the White House, perhaps they'll bring some jobs back. That would be nice, for a change.

Blessed be!
Pappy

by Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 863 comments) on Friday, February 8, 2008 at 1:37:11 AM