07.12.07
Imported food, food safety, etc.
Poll: 92 percent want ‘country of origin’ labels
You’d better believe that’s what I want. I go to the supermarket and look at Smithfield (read: giant corporation) pork, the only kind available. It is marked “natural”, which according to the label means it was grown without hormones. Excuse me? I also want my meat grown without being fed Chinese industrial waste.
In China…
Also Wednesday, the government ordered small, loosely regulated food producers to clean up their act and announced stricter rules for approving new drugs, a day after the former head of its food and drug agency was executed for accepting bribes in exchange for letting fake medicine into the domestic market.
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