Saturday, November 29, 2008

Not On the Menu

Do not eat meat from China, Vietnam or Thailand. Here is why.


Looking for a career change? Like the open spaces? Looking for lower gas consumption? Want the chance to see the world? If China appeals to you, the above might be the answer. All you would have to do is case the neighbourhood, knock on a few doors and ask if there are any dead chickens for sale. You don't have to ask what they died of, just collect the carcasses and transport them to the processing plant where they will be prepared for export to the gullible West.
Now if you are already in the West and, are happy with the status quo, just sit back and enjoy a repast prepared in the filthiest of conditions, on slave labour and don't let the fact that thousands of your fellow citizens are out of work stifle your gastric juices or interfere with your taste buds for a second. Once the herbs and spices are all in place, who will know the difference?


4 comments:

Osumashi Kinyobe said...

If people wouldn't sit at a sticky table in Starbucks, they wouldn't eat that filth. At least- not if they had restraint. How gluttonous we've become if we eat diseased chickens prepared in god-awful conditions instead of eating meat once a day (or week, depending on your health) that came from local farms with excellent quality-control measures.

kohsija said...

Do you think your importer in your country are stupid?
Learn more about standard of export food.

Peg said...

I think importers in any country will lower their standards if it means saving a dollar.

Anonymous said...

I agree with Kohsija that Western nations should have tighter standards re: the importing of foods, despite the fact that a country as poor as his would take a devastating financial hit from an embargo by Western nations. It might not, in fact, even recover from such a hit.
Western businessmen need "a lesson" just as surely as bad governments such as China need a lesson;

1. nothing manufactured or otherwise produced by workers making less than $3 or $4 will be sold in Western nations.
2. manufacturers/producers who disproportionately produce pollution/environmental/wildlife damage will be allowed to sell their products in Western nations.
3. exporters and NATIONS whose products produce danger of injury, illness, or other harm will be forced to $ compensate the victims of their negligence/carelessness.

Instituting a simple set of rules such as that, and a few others, would prevent the theft being perpetrated by those who have brought back a type of slavery to the world, destroyed ecosystems, and so forth. Every human being has "value" and those who are profiting by denying that should not be permitted the benefits of participation in Western markets and economies.