Been on a dizzy journey so will be short. I have never watched so many shows on redecorating with $500 or less. Very soothing while laid up dizzy. They move lamps around very slowly and pan the room with slow motion precision. Very soothing. They are good to keep you sleeping too. If you wake up during the next show, they are still moving around lamps so you haven't missed anything.The Herald article that most interested me today was not written by the Miami Herald. It was an AP story: China not only worry on imported food. I am always appalled by people who buy produce in the dollar store. They say it is cheap, I ask: “Where is it from?” As the article says, imported produce can be watered with “Sewage Tainted Water.” We are very strict about the water on our produce in the US. But what about that Spinach in California? Is that the exception to the norm?
The article calls the producers in developing countries “violators of basic food safety standards.” Maybe our produce is more expensive but I am thankful we at least have some safeguards on our produce, although other countries shun our produce because our foodstuff is genetically engineered. South Korea doesn’t want our beef because of mad cow disease.
In the past year the FDA has rejected 19,000 shipments of food and cosmetics. The FDA only checks 1 percent of the 8.9 million food shipments coming in per year.
Now it is Mexican cantaloupes: salmonella has been found in 4% of the 139 total shipments. Do I have Cantaloupe induced vertigo? I have had a lot of cantaloupe this week. Hmmm.
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I am scared to feed my family anything at all...it seems like there is always a consequence. I just watched Silent Running with Bruce Dern, and I think that is our future except without bad singing by joan baez.
You're nuts if you think food quality is any better here than any other country.
You know the the neither the FDA nor the USDA actually inspects our food, right?
You critique the Dollar stores and I would assume that you would add the lower end supermarkets like Sedanos in there, however as someone who buys their produce from those places I have a big surprise for you. In season, you are more likely to get fresh produce from local producers in these sub par cheap places than the majors because they are willing to pay so little and take the sub prime fruits and veggies and buy the "seconds" from local farmers and packers. Moreover, they sell those smaller and slightly damaged "seconds" alot cheaper than Publix or Whole Paycheck (Foods). Plus all that organic stuff from Publix and Whole Paycheck is flown in from CA or elsewhere. Note that the Organic Soil Association in the UK no longer considers produce that is organic but not local, or flown in from Africa for instance, as befitting the label "organic."
thanks for the lesson in produce....
Maybe it's the grapefruit juice. When in doubt go for orange.
S
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