Reply #9: KnR. Bush set the FDA back a century--but the origins of this really are in China [View All]

[Hekate]

It's the fault of both US companies and the US government for NOT checking, but theirs is a passive crime. Like the "see no evil" monkey with its hands over its eyes, they looked the other way when profits were to be had.

Putting melamine into wheat gluten for pet food and farm animal feed, then into protein powders destined for baby food formula and body builder's supplements was strictly a Chinese idea. Not the government, but the network of countless suppliers whose individual operators want to beef up their profit margins by pennies on the pound. Melamine is an industrial waste by-product, a poison -- but on lab tests it looks like the protein content of food has been boosted. Unless the lab is looking for contaminants, it doesn't show up. Theirs was the active crime. And no, clearly they did not care who got hurt.

Heads should roll all up and down this economic ladder for poisoning us, but chances are very good that no one in this country will be punished, and that only a few low level Chinese will end up as unwilling organ donors, or maybe some ministry official there will be made an example of.

Back when so many pets in this country were dying, I said that wheat gluten is widely dispersed in human food as well. I'm no scientist, and I could see this coming.

Bush and his cronies gutted the FDA. Poetic justice would have them in jail for their many crimes, being fed three meals a day (with tasty snacks) of the same food that they encouraged into this country in the name of profit.

Hekate