Poison Foods and Toys

Americans Are Being Poisoned

In the past two weeks we’ve seen millions of Mattel toys being recalled because of lead paint being used which is very dangerous to our children. It seems as if everything lately coming out of China is poisoned from the food we’re eating to the toys our children are playing with.

What is the answer? Perhaps the answer lies in our government testing and checking everything coming into our country and to stop buying products from China. They are trying to kill us while pretending they are all accidents. And we keep on buying these products. Another answer may lie in these multi billion dollar companies to open up factories in the United States, put our own people to work and make all toys right here and start to grow more of our own food.

Go back to what we did back in the fifties and that was we grew big gardens and our mothers canned the vegetables that would last us through the winter months. We picked berries and made our own jelly and jams and canned them along with the vegetables. Our mothers also made and canned apple sauce, fruits like peaches, cherries and other fruits that we liked. We grew enough potatoes to last many months in the cellar, and made our own donuts, breads, cakes and much more. Back then we didn’t have to buy all that much from the stores as we grew a lot of our own foods.

We were never poisoned or got sick from eating the foods we grew and made and perhaps it’s time we went back to a more civilized time. I know it would be safer for us and our pets. Back then our dogs and cats ate the leftovers and were perfectly healthy and lived long lives. I think people today are in such a hurry they don’t take the time to do some of these things, but perhaps it’s time we did.

When big companies cut corners by buying products out of China because the labor is so cheap, they put Americans at risk. They charge enough for the toys and products that they could pay higher prices to have them made right here in the US.. That way they could check all materials before any of them were ever used in making the toys. Seems to me the safety of our children should come before cheap labor and cheap materials being used in the products they use to make toys that will be sold to millions of our children from a country that is trying to poison us.

Not counting the many food products that have poisoned us sent from China, of the 152 product recalls announced by the commission since January, 104 have been for products made in China. Do we ever learn? Why are we still buying products from China knowing that they may be poison to us and to our children? The government doesn’t check most of the foods coming into this country and so it’s easy for them to ship poisoned foods to us. They know it won’t get checked.

We shouldn’t have to worry when we put peanut butter on our toast in the morning that we may die from eating it and yet we may die or get sick. Seems to me our government would care enough to check every food that comes into this country. Hire more checkers if there is too much food for the few people who do the checking. Stop buying so much of our food from these countries.

This is after China killed and made sick over 39,000 of our cats and dogs with poisoned pet foods and treats. I stopped buying pet food after that and I now make my two dogs food by cooking up rice, vegetables and then mix it with cooked chicken, chicken livers, beef livers, hamburgers and other meats along with a daily vitamin. They are both quite healthy. It doesn’t seem as if our government cares enough for our pets or us for that matter when they don’t regulate what comes into this country.

China, the leading exporter of seafood to the U.S., is raising most of its fish products in water contaminated with raw sewage and compensating by using dangerous drugs and chemicals, many of which are banned by the Food and Drug Administration. In China, 3.7 billion tons of sewage is discharged into rivers, lakes and coastal water – some of which are used by the industry. Only 45 percent of China has any sewage-treatment facilities, putting the country behind the rest of Asia. And we are buying and eating the seafood from this country?

Maine has fish and seafood so why aren’t we buying more from there instead of having it brought in from China? Dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical and catfish laden with banned antibiotics, scallops and sardines coated with putrefying bacteria and mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides came in from China.
The US Inspections show that foods from China were unfit for humans to eat, and they just sent them back. But instead of going back the ships would go to another port and the food items would find it’s way to our tables.

FDA inspectors - who are able to check out less than 1 percent of regulated imports - refused 298 food shipments from China. By contrast, 56 shipments from Canada were rejected, even though Canada exports about $10 billion in FDA-regulated food and agricultural products to the United States - compared with about $2 billion from China.

Now it seems as if we’re going to have to worry about eating chickens as China is trying to get permission to send their poultry over. This has raised concerns because of salmonella but also Chinese chickens if not processed right could be a source of avian flu. This is in the works to be approved and is moving ahead because the USDA audits found China's poultry slaughterhouses to be equivalent to those here.

Tony Corbo, a lobbyist for Food and Water Watch, a Washington advocacy group, said that finding - which is not subject to outside review - is unbelievable, given repeated findings of unsanitary conditions at China's chicken slaughterhouses. Corbo said he has seen some of those audits. "Everyone who has seen them was grossed out," he said.

Vegetarians have the right idea and if we all cut out the meat in our diets, we’d be safer and probably healthier. Maybe alive. We need more regulation but I don’t see it coming. Money is where it’s at and no matter how many foods China sends to us that are poisoned, we’ll still be buying it.

Other than food items, some of the products that have hurt our children were the baby swings that entrapped the babies resulting in many reports of injuries, and then the swimming pool ladders that broke resulting in 127 reports of injuries of broken bones. We bought our baby carriers made in China that left our babies falling out and being hurt. The Easy Bake ovens for little girls were another toy that trapped the child’s fingers resulting in burns. Circular saws with faulty blade guards that result in cutting users, not wood and the list goes on.

Maybe if enough people complained to these companies and stopped buying the toys they’d take more of an interest in our safety. Perhaps if Americans started growing their own food items, or at least buying only products grown or made in the US, we'd stop a lot of these poisonings.