More on Potentially Tainted Halloween Candy
Mike Mozart of Jeepers Media (featured in video above) writes:
1. Chinese manufacturers are known to have added melamine to powdered milk products including baby food.
2. Melamine is not a permitted food additive in any country. It is an industrial product and is often contaminated with other toxins. It damages the kidneys and is particularly dangerous, even fatal, to small children and infants.
3. Every other country on earth – including China – has removed all products made with Chinese-manufactured milk powder from their stores.
4. The FDA and the Bush Administration has made the US the only country on earth to have opted to leave these potentially tainted products on store shelves.
5. The FDA and the Bush administration knows that millions of pounds of Chinese-manufactured milk powder was imported into the US in the last twelve months.
6. It knows exactly what companies imported this material and the food manufacturers that used it know exactly what batches of their products this material is in.
7. The FDA and the Bush Administration further knows that:
a) injury and death associated with consumption of products containing melamine will not take place immediately (except perhaps in the case of infants) and
b) it will be practically impossible for sufferers of this tainted food to attribute their injuries to specific products since weeks, months or even years might pass between ingestion and symptoms.
Summary
By leaving these food products on store shelves, the FDA and the Bush Administration is deliberately risking serious harm to US consumers, no doubt hoping that because of the nature of the poisoning that they will be able get away with it and thus avoid the political consequences of a mass nationwide recall.
Foods at risk: ANY food manufactured in China and potentially any food containing milk powder.
US food manufacturers imported millions of pounds of milk powder from China before September 14th. The FDA continues to allow to be sold. This includes chocolate, cookies, cakes, and even things like packaged macaroni and cheese.
Do we know that these foods are tainted with melamine? No, we don’t. But is it worth the risk, especially when it comes to babies and children?
I recommend avoiding all industrial foods made with milk or milk powder — and ANY foods made in China.
Please share this information with friends, family members and colleagues so they can make an informed decision about what they eat
Sources: Jeepers Media, Daily KOS, Brasscheck
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30/10/2008 at 3:15 pm Permalink
That’s it. I’m buying a cow.
30/10/2008 at 3:16 pm Permalink
LOL!
If we lived closer, I would totally share one with you. We could make cheese together.
30/10/2008 at 5:55 pm Permalink
Good God! I don’t/cant eat dairy except for butter (strange!). I buy mine from the local farmers market. It’s not raw but its organic from grass-fed cows and usually churned the previous day. Thanks for the heads-up!
30/10/2008 at 6:02 pm Permalink
Butter is easier to digest than other dairy products.
I can’t remember if you said or not — have you tried raw milk? It’s a lot easier to digest than pasteurized milk.
30/10/2008 at 6:05 pm Permalink
I have tried raw milk and it was no better.
I tried it when I was more into traditional foods. I still am, but I don’t eat grains and slightly less animal fat than most people who follow this way of eating do.
02/11/2008 at 10:06 am Permalink
When I woke up this morning and popped on the news, they said now there is a recall on Hershey’s chocolate (Canada). I don’t know any details yet.
02/11/2008 at 10:13 am Permalink
OK I just looked it up — it’s only salmonella.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/10/31/years-old-recalled-chocolate-surfaces-in-toronto-stores.aspx
I guess these were chocolates left over from a couple years ago when they had a salmonella scare.
I swear, no industrial food is safe anymore.
02/11/2008 at 2:08 pm Permalink
This is certainly true. It’s funny, we are trying so desparately to find some crappy chocolate that is “safe” for our kids and the neighbourhood kids to give out on Halloween. Well, whether it be melamine, salmonella, hydrogentated oils, HF corn syrup, preservatives, etc., it just doesn’t exist, as far as the commercial stuff goes. And frankly, I am not going to spend a lot of money on something healthier that most kids don’t recognize and won’t eat, and certainly won’t appreciate.
Would you beleive that I had a young teenage girl come to my door trick-or-treating the other night smoking a cigarette???? The nerve!!! I am disgusted at all the trick-or-treaters who are barely dressed up at all, or who are over-aged, and many if not most of them have no manners at all. They just come to the house with their bags wide open, no “trick-or-treat, and certainly no “thank-you” to be said. Or the parents that come to your door collecting candy for their babies and small toddlers in strollers. Like, come on, who is that candy really for? I am actually thinking about giving up all together and just having a Halloween party with homeade treats in the future.
02/11/2008 at 3:13 pm Permalink
Christine, I completely agree with you. What I love about Halloween is the costumes and the dressing up. Who cares about the trick-or-treating anyway?
I’m going to do the same thing — start a new Halloween tradition that’s all about family and fun and homemade foods. Who says we have to do trick-or-treating anyway?
At least we have Thanksgiving to look forward to!