See, I told you so

It's nice when the national press comes along an confirms one of my points so quickly. Remember how yesterday I posted about how tainted products from China were nothing new?

The Washington Post has more:

Dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical.

Frozen catfish laden with banned antibiotics.

Scallops and sardines coated with putrefying bacteria.

Mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides.

These were among the 107 food imports from China that the Food and Drug Administration detained at U.S. ports just last month, agency documents reveal, along with more than 1,000 shipments of tainted Chinese dietary supplements, toxic Chinese cosmetics and counterfeit Chinese medicines.

For years, U.S. inspection records show, China has flooded the United States with foods unfit for human consumption. And for years, FDA inspectors have simply returned to Chinese importers the small portion of those products they caught -- many of which turned up at U.S. borders again, making a second or third attempt at entry.

Now the confluence of two events -- the highly publicized contamination of U.S. chicken, pork and fish with tainted Chinese pet food ingredients and this week's resumption of high-level economic and trade talks with China -- has activists and members of Congress demanding that the United States tell China it is fed up.

Like I said, China is not to be trusted as a trading partner. If the Chinese government owned businesses in China provide these kinds of products for consumption by the Chinese people (they do) then how can we expect them to care about the quality of what they provide Americans (who they consider to be the enemy)?

As far as I'm concerned this is the ONLY reason to have any qualms about Wal Mart whatsoever. They do pump billions of dollars into the PRC every year in order to keep their stores stocked with the least expensive merchandise possible.

If Wal Mart could be persuaded to begin using India as its supplier a great many evils could be avoided and a great deal of good could be accomplished.