10% of Chinese cooking oil made from sewer sludge (video)

This is the same type of thing we will all be faced with if TPP and TIPC pass and become las. These are trade agreements unwritten by 600 ,multinational companies with various countries. Our Govt plans to present this trade agreement to Congress for a “fast track” vote (either yes or no allowed). If this agreement becomes law, we will not know where our foods come from, no country of origin labels required, and we will have no legal recourse if we or a loved one gets sick or dies form the products. Any attempt by our govt to halt these potentially dangerous products could result in our govt being sued for loss of profits. This alone will discourage lawsuits by us or actions by our govt to stop the harm. We are about to get a hosing like we have never gotten before. This trade pact is egregious in every way. Contact your Reps now, and demand that he or she vote NO when this comes up for a vote.

LOL :)

I LIKE Denny’s :)

If only CEOs were free to cut wages more easily, we’d all be rich! Only communists who want us all to be poor are in favor of higher wages for working people.

In its current form, I don’t think it’s safe for any use.

Think about it – just about any use can result in the nastiest of chemicals getting into our air, water or food chain. That’s why we have sewage treatment plants – to remove that crud.

It would be one thing if they could guarantee that there were no noxious chemicals left in the resulting product, but they really can’t do that. China has a lousy track record when it comes to product and worker safety. Even if this stuff were supposedly properly processed and inspected, they would find a way to get around that for the sake of higher profits. The people performing the processing would likely be subject to all kinds of nasty diseases.

Aside from the grossness aspect of this, it’s just plain asking for trouble. I avoid Chinese products like the plague. Not only for the safety aspect, but for the fact that the Chinese workers are treated horribly and any purchase of such products that one makes supports an inherently corrupt system.

This is all in service to stock prices. This model of company financing and profit sharing is one of the more insidiously exploitive financial maneuvers on the planet. It is the very worst of capitalism and responsible for many of the ills in our society.

EVERYTHING comes from China. The GOP made sure of that, they gave tax breaks to US companies to move to China. In order to be a Patriot Republican, you only buy from China, because US made goods are made by well-paid Americans who can afford to buy a home and retire, and that’s EVIL.

See, this is why the Grocery Marketers of America are trying to ban Washington State’s GMO labels. If that is allowed, then the American People will want to have sewer sludge cooking oil labelled, too!

If you can’t sell sewer sludge as cooking oil, then America is no longer Free!

Chicken processed in China. Swell. Perfect . Don’t have to deal with pesky inspectors and the wages these American working people want is so rude. I mean how am I to maintain my 4 homes and Porsche just has to go to the Islands at least once a year or she’ll just die !
Thank God for NAFTA, at least this time around we didn’t have to manufacture much here in OUR country. And think of the lives we could save with lower wages ! Those people don’t know how to handle money. They’d just hurt themselves! And now they’re all upset about having to work till 70. Can you believe it ! My Grandpa worked till he was 78 for chrissakes. AHH! what fond memories. His beautiful office with that overstuffed leather chair and the fireplace was just grand !
Well,now that we can get around these terrible laws and regulations maybe this will become America again. If these silly people don’t like the chicken I’m sure they can go to some other nasty little fast food joint with their filthy little children. After all, this is a free country.

And to think that ‘Divine’ was a pioneer in this genre.

exactly

The same people who want healthy food and no government inspections.

Who is “we?” I don’t want tort reform. It’s a corporatist maneuver.

Eeuw!

Freedom for insurance companies to act as death panels without government intervention! That’s real freedom

these god damn regulations hurt the job creators don’t you know.

Finger lickin good.

You can sell Tea Party people anything if you tell them it is cheaper because it comes from a place where government regulations aren’t running up the prices. Not long ago they arrested folks in Indiana selling “generic cigarettes” that bore no tax stamp. Turns out these non-government inspected generics were ragweed and buffalo grass clippings. But there were few complaints for those $3 a pack ciggies. The Coin Laundry Association once switched its members’ liability insurance from a company based in Indianapolis to one in the Caymen Islands where the price was low because they didn’t have to meet “all sorts of bulls**t government regulation.” But when member customers made claims under those policies all were denied, leaving member Laundromat operators open to paying the damage themselves. The “insurance” firm said if the group didn’t like it they should send a lawyer to the Caymens and sue them. The lawyer found the firm headquartered from a post office box barely larger than two boxes of corn flakes and nobody from the company could be found. After two years to trade group was back with the company in Indianapolis. Somebody once said that if you build the better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door. But today, all need to promise cheap prices due to no government regulations.

Yeah, not the best example maybe. But I think I’d rather burn a dioxin-containing candle than eat dioxin-containing cooking oil.

Yeah. I’m not sure what the “free market” solution to this problem is supposed to be.

Of course, the teabaggers want the “freedom” to choose to eat toxic food just like they want the “freedom” to die from untreated cancer because of lack of health insurance, or the “freedom” to work for $2.50 an hour if they so choose. All of these awful restrictions that the US government wants to impose upon them……..

I know it would be totally wrong to make a joke about Denny’s at this juncture.

What…the…

Aren’t there Republicans who still cite China as though it were some sort of Cold-War-ish enemy? I don’t see why they’ve any need to worry. It’s the perfect country for them: an authoritarian government that lets its industry run completely wild without fear from pesky job-killing innovation-stifling regulations.

Sweet jumpin’ Jeebus… I think I’m gonna throw up.