Overseas Chinese have had enough for the spoiled goods from China!

I’m really against China though for all their human rights violations, the story you may have read just a couple months ago about how they beat on these animals that look like dogs just to make that faux fur for clothing, articles you may have read regarding their ignorance when the avian flu broke out, how they needlessly rounded up some people’s pets for slaughter when US Health officials tried to tell them they were going a bit too far, how they EVEN use dogs and cats to satisfy their food delicacies. Enough on that. If Petco and Pet smart care as much as they say they do about pets, aren’t they hypocrites then to be stocking these pet products that are “Made in China” ? C’mon China, get your act together. Learn to think of the benefits of having a cat and/or dog in your home as a pet. Do you know that they have been known to save family members from dying in fires, floods, hurting themselves while having a seizure, and countless other emergency situations ? Until then, I will shy away from these products that are made in CHINA.

(April 6, 2007 update) During the recall of many brands of pet foods, Natural Life Nutritional Pet Products wanted to take extra measures to ensure the safety of your pets as well as ours. We immediately sent our canned and dry formulas to an independent lab to be tested for all chemicals including the Aminopterin and Melamine that is causing such as great scare. We have been notified and have documentation on file to ensure that our products are indeed safe and clear of any toxins, just as we knew they would be. In addition, we routinely test our products for Salmonella and E-coli as well, however this testing is not mandatory.” Unfortunately, their nearest retailer to me is an hour away, but they do ship. I just wanted to share the info with others that may have retailers near their homes.

Your food does not come from a box store, truck, train, or boat. IT COMES FROM A FARM.

Government food production stabilization programs are all but gone now, and we have allowed American farms to disappear. Since 1950, the number of American farms in production has declined by HALF. Production output has remained the same thanks to technology like GMO’s. And for those of you think this is awful, GMO’s are everywhere, in ALL FOODS. We have a little known event called gene flow to thank for this. (GMO free labels are bogus and unregulated, nice thought though)

This year, the US will become a NET IMPORTER of agricultural goods for the first time in generations. This trend in deadly food products will continue to increase as our food production becomes evermore concentrated and consolidated. Increasing world demand for food and ethanol production will exacerbate this problem as well.

And finally, NO, we do not produce enough food to feed ourselves, but we could. Worse yet, we will need to DOUBLE our food production to sustain the world population over the NEXT 40 YEARS. Unfortunately, it would take the better part of a decade to recover the fallow fields across the US. And even then, we will be battling over resources required to produce our crops. Resources such as water, soil nutrients, and open space are already in short supply.

For those skeptics out there, I am not a farmer, only educated.

I suggest you all start with “Merchants of Grain” by Dan Morgan to get acquainted with how your food arrives at your dinner plate. This is the ONLY book that details the movement of nutrients around the world.

Then check out the USDA and National Agricultural Statistics Service website.

Oh yeah and boycott _anything_ made in China. I know it’s hard because so much is made there, but do what you can. I know I am.