{"id":7047,"date":"2013-03-24T08:27:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T08:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7047"},"modified":"2013-03-24T08:27:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T08:27:35","slug":"a-question-mark-on-chinese-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/a-question-mark-on-chinese-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"A question mark for Chinese goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Foodstuffs maybe very suspect<br \/>\nat this time<br \/>\nthe Huang pu river pigs<br \/>\nthe number found did climb<br \/>\nmore than 13,000 bodies<br \/>\nfished out of the river<br \/>\nas they all floated downstream<br \/>\nbound for dear old Shanghai<br \/>\nand of course this was no dream<\/p>\n<p>It was a hellish nightmare<br \/>\nthe path of no return<br \/>\nbut it seems the pigs had<br \/>\nsome disease and rather than just burn,<br \/>\nZheJiang farmers calmly<br \/>\njust lobbed them out of sight<br \/>\ninto the river one by one<br \/>\nwhen they thought the time<br \/>\nwas right<\/p>\n<p>when they were discovered<br \/>\nmaggoty and rife<br \/>\nwith every horrid colour<br \/>\nand clear in so much strife<br \/>\nthe authorities put out<br \/>\na dictum the water that you drink<br \/>\nis absolutely perfect<br \/>\ndespite the piggy stink<\/p>\n<p>Remember back a few years<br \/>\nin milk what some did find<br \/>\nMelamine a substance added<br \/>\nand it was underlined, added by producers<br \/>\nto try to make more dosh<br \/>\nsome were sentenced to death I hear<br \/>\nbut  why, it doesn&#8217;t wash<br \/>\nbabies died and surely its still around today<br \/>\nits in the fertilisers<br \/>\nsomehow they had to pay<\/p>\n<p>but where were the authorities<br \/>\nclearly no checks were made<br \/>\nits wasn&#8217;t backyard selling<br \/>\nin was big time stuff<br \/>\nthat played<br \/>\nout into the superstores<br \/>\nand caused a lot of grief<br \/>\nand when you imagine<br \/>\nthe size of China<br \/>\nit just beggars belief<\/p>\n<p>Pork is China&#8217;s favourite<br \/>\nand CAFO&#8217;s now exist<br \/>\neverywhere the factory farm,<br \/>\nis harder to resist<br \/>\na seething mass of bodies<br \/>\nall crammed into one space<br \/>\ncontrollable by robots<br \/>\nor those without a face<br \/>\nvast arrays of humans<br \/>\nall decked out to be<br \/>\non a vast assembly<br \/>\nand disassembly line<br \/>\na key<br \/>\nto making enough profit<br \/>\nthe commodities<br \/>\nalas<br \/>\nare pigs the  tribes<br \/>\nare ailing<br \/>\nand suffering en masse<\/p>\n<p>in the corporate grip<br \/>\nthe farmers seemingly were sure<br \/>\nintense farming<br \/>\nnever ever done like this<br \/>\nbefore<br \/>\nthe animals paid heavily<br \/>\nfor their incarnation here<br \/>\nso many spare rib gluttons<br \/>\nout there, it became clear<\/p>\n<p>some eat so much pig<br \/>\neach week<br \/>\nthat producing so much mean&#8217;t<br \/>\nantibiotics were the thing<br \/>\nas if they were<br \/>\nHeaven sent<\/p>\n<p>and so the pigs got fatter<br \/>\nand quickly their dead weight<br \/>\ngave profit to the farmers<br \/>\nand everyone felt great<br \/>\nbut antibiotics don&#8217;t stop there<br \/>\nthey entered our food chain<br \/>\na great feat of re-cycling<br \/>\nin reality, insane<\/p>\n<p>but the rush for making profits<br \/>\nsilenced all that fear<br \/>\nand of course what we are seeing<br \/>\nlately fatties do appear<br \/>\nand the antibiotics are resident<br \/>\nand their immunity<br \/>\nis shot away completely<br \/>\nthey are ruined actually<\/p>\n<p>when they enter our domain<br \/>\nit serious for we<br \/>\ncannot fight infections<br \/>\nthe risk to humanity<br \/>\nits all gone down the plug hole<br \/>\nand talking about drains<br \/>\nthey have been using sewer oil<br \/>\nto cook with and more pains<br \/>\nits all to do with money<br \/>\nso evil, when its tight<br \/>\nEating foods from China<br \/>\nis like some awful blight<\/p>\n<p>but as we see in America<br \/>\nit is no better there<br \/>\nthe corporates are so huge<br \/>\nmislabelling they share<br \/>\nthe government is powerless<br \/>\nMonsanto tells them they<br \/>\nwill understand that labelling<br \/>\nhas to be this way<\/p>\n<p>GM now is resident in foods<br \/>\nand no one knows<br \/>\nmillions of dollars<br \/>\nwere paid in<br \/>\nto fight the labelling prose<br \/>\nand recently Monsanto<br \/>\nwon the battle royal<br \/>\nand we all are no more the wiser<br \/>\nGM or motor oil<\/p>\n<p>Goods now made in China<br \/>\nor the great old USA<br \/>\npersonally I&#8217;m not eating<br \/>\nit<br \/>\nnot now from today<\/p>\n<p>you can make your own mind up<br \/>\nfor me, local and I<br \/>\nam vegan<br \/>\nI will stay this way<br \/>\nuntil the day<br \/>\nI die<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Foodstuffs maybe very suspect at this time the Huang pu river pigs the number found did climb 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