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To: TobagoJack who wrote (19624)	6/16/2007 4:20:11 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217561

Producers are scared of China, TJ! "lowering of trade barriers more than a decade ago has pushed food companies to scour the globe for more exotic — or the cheapest — ingredients to compete in a more global marketplace, not unlike automakers shipping in parts from all over. But with America’s relatively permissible food-import rules and weak inspection regime, is the trend to assemble food from so many far-flung locations heightening the risks of contamination? Oh, here is a company 'worried' about 'contamination', Mr. TJ! But look closely. They cushy protected market is open to competition! They are afraid of the competition!! Once ingredients are incorporated into processed foods, it is hard to check whether they come from overseas or to verify if there are any unsafe contaminants in the products,” said Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington lobby group. “This is increasing the chances that people will get unsafe food.” Center for Science in the Public Interest? Mr. TJ the lobbyists are working over time to "protect" the US consumer. They have the US consumer at heart! Of course Sara Lee is paying their salaries... I can recall Western Europe before 1992 and their "rules" against their neighbors to protect their markets. But this one beast everything: When the US, the very US afraid of "contamination" wanted to export their beef to Japan the Japanese said: Japanese guts are different that the westerners, they cannot digest beef!!! TJ, I left school so I could not learn those things, please, pardon my ignorance...

To: TobagoJack who wrote (19624)	6/16/2007 5:16:34 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217561

in 2005 won a battle in the Supreme Court to tear down protectionist barriers that kept wineries from shipping directly to consumers in other states, died June 9 at her home in Middleburg, Va. nytimes.com Now this is in between states, now imagine the battle to tear down protectionist barriers against foreign countries. The U.S. has been very successful in seeling the world the story about free trade but people have been buying this story too easily. But then there is the presence of the state. TJ, Washignton hovers above the economy like that spaceship of the film Independence Day. There's too much mney going to D.C. and it is used to set the circumstances That's why the foreign policy is an extension of the internal state of affairs, when Paulson goes around offering financial sanctions. You can just picture someone inside the U.S. not walking the line and getting the local flavor of sanctions full blown, like -again- the Independence Day space ship firing its main weapon.