notbob wrote:

> On 2007-05-20, Julia Altshuler > wrote:
>
> > about the poor starving children in China. Now, why haven't we heard
> > about the poor children in China dying from tainted and adulterated
> > food? You'd think an outbreak of deaths or illness would make the
> > international news. Is it covered up?
>
> Well, duh! It is still a communist country. You think they are going
> to alert current and potential trade partners their own people are
> dropping like flies on polluted foodstuff? C'mon....



And besides being a communist country the Chinese still operate by the
axiom "life is cheap"...

In the "New China" the profit motive is *everything"...even it's to
the detriment of human life. Don't forget that it's still a country
that makes extensive use of slave labor...

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Best
Greg