Isn't globalism wonderful?
I mean, who would have imagined that opening up America's food sources to China and Mexico would mean consumers would be eating fish contaminated with human waste and tomatoes and avocadoes tainted with salmonella?
Presumably our distinguished members of Congress never counted on that.
And the Food and Drug Administration is still baffled by the recent poisonings.
Now, the FDA tells us it's safe to eat tomatoes, again, even though it has no idea why at least 1,200 people in 42 states got sick eating them.
I, on the other hand, have a very good idea.
In our rush to open up markets worldwide, we neglected to use our heads.
Other nations have very different safety standards for food than we do. In fact, some of them – like China and Mexico – have no standards at all.
You can read the voluminous press coverage of the latest food scandals and find not a hint of the real problem.
For a quick refresher course, I commend you to read the following WND reports:
- China-made blood thinner killing Americas?
- Insecticide poisons Chinese dumplings
- China blames WND for product scare
- Latest China scare: Don't eat the ginger!
- Latest China food scare: Don't eat the pickled vegetables
- No standard safety regs with China on food, drugs
- Florida company recalls toxic China toothpaste
- China's toothpaste contaminant has long, grisly history
- Seafood imports from China raised in untreated sewage
- Is China trying to poison Americans and their pets?
(By the way, the above is merely a small sampling of WND's groundbreaking coverage of this issue limited to the most important stories on the threat to America's food supply. There is far more coverage of dangerous product imports other than food.)
Foods trucked in from Mexico with little or no inspection and with no adherence to U.S. labeling requirements is the principal cause of the latest produce scare.
While the hapless FDA with its budget in the many billions seems ill-equipped to analyze the problem and solve the mystery through testing, at least one state government is doing just that.
North Carolina officials this week recalled jalapeno peppers and avocados in a new salmonella threat. All of the produce is believed to be imported from Mexico.
Call it one of the uncounted costs of the alphabet soup of global treaties (NAFTA, CAFTA, GATT, WTO, etc.) approved in recent years by American politicians who have sold their birthright for a mess of poison pottage.
The health of average Americans was never entered into the equation.
You will also notice the dearth of comments on America's little health crisis by the two leading presidential candidates.
That speaks volumes.
Because neither one of them is likely to buck the trend of globalist "free trade" agreements that punish American producers with unfair costs and regulations and flood the U.S. marketplace with unsafe food and other goods.