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Default Salmonella poisoning blamed on Chinese-made ingredients

anon k wrote:
> Mitch Scherer wrote:
>> I buy a lot of Chinese products because they are not produced by lying
>> crooks and union goons.

>
> You're right about there being no union goons, but there are stacks of
> lying crooks. They're just like the lying crooks on this side of the
> Pacific who place the orders for dirt-cheap low-quality impersonations
> of good products whether food or clothes or toys or utensils. Things
> won't get a whole lot better without some de-crooking on both sides of
> the ocean.
>
>

.... and as long as there's money to be made and politicians willing to
look the other way, there won't be any de-crooking at all. Seems to me
there's very little being done by governments to deal with this stuff;
there's been a lot of excuse-making and statements to the effect that
doing anything about the problems will cost too much, but that's about it.