High-fructose corn syrup will kill you.
The ozone hole is reacting to more chemicals.
President McCain.
AIDS and where it actually came from.
Never say these things to a teacher unless you want to be cut up for the next craft project.
Sunday, March 09, 2014
Saturday, March 08, 2014
Your medicine could be coming from China.
Daily Kos (via Steve Bates):
China, selling fox meat as donkey meat to its clients. Not that I'll ever eat donkey meat. That's not the point. It's that, again, China is caught selling something inedible/ poisonous/ toxic/ contaminated/ mislabeled to customers. Don't they have an 'FDA' branch of the government that enforces quality controls? If they don't, why would anyone trust China to sell anything reliable, safe, or uncontaminated?
Here is the list culled from the many posts on my blog on China's ongoing problems in food and industrial safety.
Gutter oil made in China... from dead animals and garbage. Are we sure we want them to process our chickens?
They never seem to learn:
220,000 Pounds Of Poisoned Dead Fish Scooped Up In China In Reminder Of Pollution Plaguing Country
Update: I do hope the Chinese scientists know what they are doing....
Scientists warn Chinese-made air-transmissible bybrid bird flu puts humanity at risk
From my many posts on this subject:
Fake Medicine from China Threatening Lives in Africa
*sigh*
Add it to the list:
BEIJING—The discovery of unusual levels of mercury in Chinese-produced infant formula reignited fears about the safety of the country's scandal-ridden dairy industry, and underlined the severe challenges the government faces in improving food safety.
Mercury in baby formula.
Pills for human consumption containing human remains.
China poisons more pets:
Over the past 12 months, the FDA has observed an increase in the number of complaints regarding canine illnesses associated with consumption of chicken jerky products imported from China.
These complaints have been reported to the government by both dog owners and veterinarians.
And here is the ever-expanding list:
But according to FSN, the biggest reason to avoid ultra-filtered honey is that pollen is the only sure-fire way to trace the source of honey to a geographic location. As a result ultra-filtered honey is often used to mask the shady origins of certain kinds of honey -- especially Chinese honey, which is subject to heavy import tariffs on account of its frequent contamination by heavy metals and illegal antibiotics. Chinese honeymakers ultra-filter their honey, and then ship it through byzantine paths, to sneak their sham product onto American grocery shelves without being hit with a tariff.
Vinegar from China kills 11 people.
"From steroid-spiked pork to glow-in-the-dark meat to recycled cooking oil collected from sewers, a series of illnesses and scandals linked to tainted food has put officials on guard. But tougher measures have had little effect amid an official culture of secrecy."
Watermelons spiked with growth chemicals explode in the fields... so the farmers feed the forchlorfenuron saturated melons to fish and pigs.
Waste water forced into pigs going to market.
Fresh milk tainted with melamine and toxic substances extracted from leather scraps... killed 6 children in China and sickened 300,000.
Rice is contaminated with heavy metals like cadmium.
Fake rice made from plastic, potatoes and resin.
Pulverized lime added to bleaching agents widely used in flour production. Pulverized lime damages the lungs and the entire respiratory system.
Cadmium in children's toys and little girl jewelry. Lead in toys: Thomas the Tank Engine, baby bibs, cub scout badges, wooden blocks. Formaldehyde in candy, in baby clothing. Coma-inducing date rape drug in toys.
Asbestos in toys.
"The rampant use of chemical additives in animal feed can be traced to 1999. According to Gao Yinxiang, the research and development of high-protein feed additives was a hot field among scientists about 10 years ago due to shortage of animal fodder in the country at the time.
From that time, it's hard to define the exact role that scientists played in the evolution of the melamine scandal. Yet scientists certainly contributed to it by developing unsafe protein alternatives. Many Chinese are now calling on scientists to examine their conscience before making profits at the expense of public safety."
Melamine in pet food kills house pets in the US. Melamine is found in wheat, corn and rice gluten.
China says no to inspections and destroys evidence.
Rat poison in breakfast porridge.
Pesticide-laden pea pods, drug-laced catfish, filthy plums and crawfish contaminated with salmonella. Dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical. Scallops and sardines coated with putrefying bacteria. Mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides.
Toothpaste with diethylene glycol, a toxic chemical used in engine coolants.
Highly toxic puffer fish sold as monk fish.
Fake blood protein.
Wild mice used for meat.
Defective tires.
Use of illegal drift nets.
Fake kosher food.
Insecticide-tainted dumplings.
More than 40 percent of drinking water in rural China is unfit for drinking.
Poisoned chocolate.
Toxic drywall which caused houses to be uninhabitable.
Fake Cisco routers
Misuse and overuse of antibiotics. "Studies in China show a "frightening" increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as staphylococcus aureus bacteria, also know as MRSA."
The list will inevitably be added to. When are we going to learn this is what happens to corporations when there is no regulation?
Recently, Diane Rehm had a show about prescription drugs sold in the U.S. that are manufactured outside of the U.S. Unknown to me (and probably many others) many of the prescription drugs that we take were actually manufactured outside of the United States. According to Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the FDA: Eighty percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients in drugs taken here are actually manufactured in other countries and about 40 percent of the finished drugs are coming from other countries.Really? China? This China?
China, selling fox meat as donkey meat to its clients. Not that I'll ever eat donkey meat. That's not the point. It's that, again, China is caught selling something inedible/ poisonous/ toxic/ contaminated/ mislabeled to customers. Don't they have an 'FDA' branch of the government that enforces quality controls? If they don't, why would anyone trust China to sell anything reliable, safe, or uncontaminated?
Here is the list culled from the many posts on my blog on China's ongoing problems in food and industrial safety.
Gutter oil made in China... from dead animals and garbage. Are we sure we want them to process our chickens?
They never seem to learn:
220,000 Pounds Of Poisoned Dead Fish Scooped Up In China In Reminder Of Pollution Plaguing Country
Authorities have scooped up around 100,000 kilograms (220,000 pounds) of dead fish they say were poisoned by ammonia from a chemical plant, environmental officials and state media said Wednesday, in a reminder of the pollution plaguing the country.
The Hubei province environmental protection department, notified of the piles of dead fish in central China's Fuhe River on Monday, pointed the finger at local company Hubei Shuanghuan Science and Technology Stock Co. Officials said sampling of its drain outlet showed that ammonia density far exceeded the national standard. The company said it wasn't going to immediately comment.
Inadequate controls on industry and lax enforcement of existing standards have worsened China's pollution problem, stemming from three decades of breakneck economic growth. High-profile incidents this year involving dead animals in rivers – not only deaths attributed to pollution but also carcasses dumped by farmers after die-offs at farms – have added to public disgust and suspicions about the safety of drinking water.
The latest incident has affected the nearby fishing village of Huanghualao, where 1,600 residents make a living from fishing, said the village's Communist Party secretary, Wang Sanqing.
Adding yet one more thing that illustrates why we can't trust food products (or anything else) from China:
More than 900 people have been arrested in China for involvement in meat-related crimes, including producing fake beef and mutton from animals such as rats, minks and foxes, authorities reported.
A total of 382 cases of alleged crimes in food industry were uncovered in a three-month campaign launched by China’s Ministry of Public Security on January 25, the ministry reported.
In addition to producing falsely-labeled meat, the crimes included using banned chemicals in processing of products, selling meat infected with various diseases and injecting water into meat to pad up its weight, according to Xinhua news agency.
Security officials seized more than 20,000 tons of illegal meat products during the crackdown.
The ministry said it will now focus on dairy products, continuing a larger campaign to combat crime and violations in food industry.
Nice to see official attempts to crackdown on this unregulated industry. But I bet I will be posting yet another article sometime soon about poisonous/ toxic/ polluted/ contaminated products made in China. Because that's the way it is.
Update: I do hope the Chinese scientists know what they are doing....
Scientists warn Chinese-made air-transmissible bybrid bird flu puts humanity at risk
From my many posts on this subject:
Fake Medicine from China Threatening Lives in Africa
*sigh*
Add it to the list:
BEIJING—The discovery of unusual levels of mercury in Chinese-produced infant formula reignited fears about the safety of the country's scandal-ridden dairy industry, and underlined the severe challenges the government faces in improving food safety.
Mercury in baby formula.
Pills for human consumption containing human remains.
China poisons more pets:
November 18, 2011 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an important bulletin warning consumers that chicken jerky products (also marketed as chicken tenders, strips or treats) may be associated with serious illness in dogs.
Over the past 12 months, the FDA has observed an increase in the number of complaints regarding canine illnesses associated with consumption of chicken jerky products imported from China.
These complaints have been reported to the government by both dog owners and veterinarians.
And here is the ever-expanding list:
But according to FSN, the biggest reason to avoid ultra-filtered honey is that pollen is the only sure-fire way to trace the source of honey to a geographic location. As a result ultra-filtered honey is often used to mask the shady origins of certain kinds of honey -- especially Chinese honey, which is subject to heavy import tariffs on account of its frequent contamination by heavy metals and illegal antibiotics. Chinese honeymakers ultra-filter their honey, and then ship it through byzantine paths, to sneak their sham product onto American grocery shelves without being hit with a tariff.
Vinegar from China kills 11 people.
"From steroid-spiked pork to glow-in-the-dark meat to recycled cooking oil collected from sewers, a series of illnesses and scandals linked to tainted food has put officials on guard. But tougher measures have had little effect amid an official culture of secrecy."
Watermelons spiked with growth chemicals explode in the fields... so the farmers feed the forchlorfenuron saturated melons to fish and pigs.
Waste water forced into pigs going to market.
Fresh milk tainted with melamine and toxic substances extracted from leather scraps... killed 6 children in China and sickened 300,000.
Rice is contaminated with heavy metals like cadmium.
Fake rice made from plastic, potatoes and resin.
Pulverized lime added to bleaching agents widely used in flour production. Pulverized lime damages the lungs and the entire respiratory system.
Cadmium in children's toys and little girl jewelry. Lead in toys: Thomas the Tank Engine, baby bibs, cub scout badges, wooden blocks. Formaldehyde in candy, in baby clothing. Coma-inducing date rape drug in toys.
Asbestos in toys.
"The rampant use of chemical additives in animal feed can be traced to 1999. According to Gao Yinxiang, the research and development of high-protein feed additives was a hot field among scientists about 10 years ago due to shortage of animal fodder in the country at the time.
From that time, it's hard to define the exact role that scientists played in the evolution of the melamine scandal. Yet scientists certainly contributed to it by developing unsafe protein alternatives. Many Chinese are now calling on scientists to examine their conscience before making profits at the expense of public safety."
Melamine in pet food kills house pets in the US. Melamine is found in wheat, corn and rice gluten.
China says no to inspections and destroys evidence.
Rat poison in breakfast porridge.
Pesticide-laden pea pods, drug-laced catfish, filthy plums and crawfish contaminated with salmonella. Dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical. Scallops and sardines coated with putrefying bacteria. Mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides.
Toothpaste with diethylene glycol, a toxic chemical used in engine coolants.
Highly toxic puffer fish sold as monk fish.
Fake blood protein.
Wild mice used for meat.
Defective tires.
Use of illegal drift nets.
Fake kosher food.
Insecticide-tainted dumplings.
More than 40 percent of drinking water in rural China is unfit for drinking.
Poisoned chocolate.
Toxic drywall which caused houses to be uninhabitable.
Fake Cisco routers
Misuse and overuse of antibiotics. "Studies in China show a "frightening" increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as staphylococcus aureus bacteria, also know as MRSA."
The list will inevitably be added to. When are we going to learn this is what happens to corporations when there is no regulation?
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Climate change to WWII and O'Reilly in between!
Climate change? What climate change? What climate change might unleash.
Whale graveyard in Chile. Counting whales from space.
Poor Bill O'Reilly... scared of tough wimmen. Maybe he feels like this?
Therapy dogs.
Plastic in our food... is good for us. Right? How about raw fish?
Harry Potter and the aftermath.
President Obama hanging out with scientists.
Fukushima radiation affected the USS Reagan and its crew.
Finding the forgotten Russian soldiers from WWII.
Whale graveyard in Chile. Counting whales from space.
Poor Bill O'Reilly... scared of tough wimmen. Maybe he feels like this?
Therapy dogs.
Plastic in our food... is good for us. Right? How about raw fish?
Harry Potter and the aftermath.
President Obama hanging out with scientists.
Fukushima radiation affected the USS Reagan and its crew.
Finding the forgotten Russian soldiers from WWII.
Friday, February 28, 2014
Bees? What bees?
Covered in bees!
Scientists had struggled to find the trigger for so-called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) that has wiped out an estimated 10 million beehives, worth $2 billion, over the past six years. Suspects have included pesticides, disease-bearing parasites and poor nutrition. But in a first-of-its-kind study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, scientists at the University of Maryland and the US Department of Agriculture have identified a witch’s brew of pesticides and fungicides contaminating pollen that bees collect to feed their hives. The findings break new ground on why large numbers of bees are dying though they do not identify the specific cause of CCD, where an entire beehive dies at once.
When researchers collected pollen from hives on the east coast pollinating cranberry, watermelon and other crops and fed it to healthy bees, those bees showed a significant decline in their ability to resist infection by a parasite called Nosema ceranae. The parasite has been implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder though scientists took pains to point out that their findings do not directly link the pesticides to CCD. The pollen was contaminated on average with nine different pesticides and fungicides though scientists discovered 21 agricultural chemicals in one sample. Scientists identified eight ag chemicals associated with increased risk of infection by the parasite.
Most disturbing, bees that ate pollen contaminated with fungicides were three times as likely to be infected by the parasite. Widely used, fungicides had been thought to be harmless for bees as they’re designed to kill fungus, not insects, on crops like apples.
“There’s growing evidence that fungicides may be affecting the bees on their own and I think what it highlights is a need to reassess how we label these agricultural chemicals,” Dennis vanEngelsdorp, the study’s lead author, told Quartz.
Labels on pesticides warn farmers not to spray when pollinating bees are in the vicinity but such precautions have not applied to fungicides.
Bee populations are so low in the US that it now takes 60% of the country’s surviving colonies just to pollinate one California crop, almonds. And that’s not just a west coast problem—California supplies 80% of the world’s almonds, a market worth $4 billion.
In recent years, a class of chemicals called neonicotinoids has been linked to bee deaths and in April regulators banned the use of the pesticide for two years in Europe where bee populations have also plummeted. But vanEngelsdorp, an assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland, says the new study shows that the interaction of multiple pesticides is affecting bee health.
“The pesticide issue in itself is much more complex than we have led to be believe,” he says. “It’s a lot more complicated than just one product, which means of course the solution does not lie in just banning one class of product.”
Scientists had struggled to find the trigger for so-called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) that has wiped out an estimated 10 million beehives, worth $2 billion, over the past six years. Suspects have included pesticides, disease-bearing parasites and poor nutrition. But in a first-of-its-kind study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, scientists at the University of Maryland and the US Department of Agriculture have identified a witch’s brew of pesticides and fungicides contaminating pollen that bees collect to feed their hives. The findings break new ground on why large numbers of bees are dying though they do not identify the specific cause of CCD, where an entire beehive dies at once.
When researchers collected pollen from hives on the east coast pollinating cranberry, watermelon and other crops and fed it to healthy bees, those bees showed a significant decline in their ability to resist infection by a parasite called Nosema ceranae. The parasite has been implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder though scientists took pains to point out that their findings do not directly link the pesticides to CCD. The pollen was contaminated on average with nine different pesticides and fungicides though scientists discovered 21 agricultural chemicals in one sample. Scientists identified eight ag chemicals associated with increased risk of infection by the parasite.
Most disturbing, bees that ate pollen contaminated with fungicides were three times as likely to be infected by the parasite. Widely used, fungicides had been thought to be harmless for bees as they’re designed to kill fungus, not insects, on crops like apples.
“There’s growing evidence that fungicides may be affecting the bees on their own and I think what it highlights is a need to reassess how we label these agricultural chemicals,” Dennis vanEngelsdorp, the study’s lead author, told Quartz.
Labels on pesticides warn farmers not to spray when pollinating bees are in the vicinity but such precautions have not applied to fungicides.
Bee populations are so low in the US that it now takes 60% of the country’s surviving colonies just to pollinate one California crop, almonds. And that’s not just a west coast problem—California supplies 80% of the world’s almonds, a market worth $4 billion.
In recent years, a class of chemicals called neonicotinoids has been linked to bee deaths and in April regulators banned the use of the pesticide for two years in Europe where bee populations have also plummeted. But vanEngelsdorp, an assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland, says the new study shows that the interaction of multiple pesticides is affecting bee health.
“The pesticide issue in itself is much more complex than we have led to be believe,” he says. “It’s a lot more complicated than just one product, which means of course the solution does not lie in just banning one class of product.”
Monday, February 24, 2014
Monday Monday....
El Nino incoming and what it will do to us.
We have to intervene!
Guns. Guns will keep you safe... (just not the other guy.)
The world's 'poorest' president.
Everything you know about the Ukraine is wrong.
Makes me want to go out and plant more trees.
Music was her life blood and kept her alive.
What parents do to a baby's brain and what happens when they are not there in the development stage.
Oldest piece of rock in the world.
Daring to be a woman on the internet.
Thank you, Moon.
We have to intervene!
Guns. Guns will keep you safe... (just not the other guy.)
The world's 'poorest' president.
Everything you know about the Ukraine is wrong.
Makes me want to go out and plant more trees.
Music was her life blood and kept her alive.
What parents do to a baby's brain and what happens when they are not there in the development stage.
Oldest piece of rock in the world.
Daring to be a woman on the internet.
Thank you, Moon.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Come swim in the Pacific and get a tan without leaving the water!
New highly radioactive leak at Japan's Fukushima plant
TOKYO (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday that 100 metric tons of highly contaminated water had leaked out of a tank, the worst incident since last August, when a series of radioactive water leaks sparked international alarm.
Tokyo Electric Power Co told reporters the latest leak was unlikely to have reached the ocean. But news of the leak at the site, devastated by a 2011 earthquake and tsunami, further undercut public trust in a utility rocked by a string of mishaps and disclosure issues.
Monday, February 17, 2014
Police work
Police Shoot And Kill An 80-Year-Old Man In His Own Bed Over Drugs That Weren't There
California police use taser on deaf man trying to communicate with them via sign language
Family says five Oklahoma police beat father to death after asking for ID
Update 2/19: Georgia Cop Shoots, Kills Teen Who Was Holding Up a Wii Controller
Update 2/20: Police Can’t Get Their Story Straight After a Deputy Fatally Shoots a Texas Woman
Update 2/22: After Video Goes Viral, Austin Police Defend Jaywalking Jogger Arrest
California police use taser on deaf man trying to communicate with them via sign language
Family says five Oklahoma police beat father to death after asking for ID
Update 2/19: Georgia Cop Shoots, Kills Teen Who Was Holding Up a Wii Controller
Update 2/20: Police Can’t Get Their Story Straight After a Deputy Fatally Shoots a Texas Woman
Update 2/22: After Video Goes Viral, Austin Police Defend Jaywalking Jogger Arrest
Sunday, February 16, 2014
This and that
Lost in the last ten years.
And what we may have in the next ten. And how we might be able to provide power. And provide jobs.
Holy shit... San Francisco police out of control.
Caturday cat. Kinda.
Polar vortex, my ass.
Revolutionizing the government.
The weirdness of those who attack birth control.
Making proper bread.
And what we may have in the next ten. And how we might be able to provide power. And provide jobs.
Holy shit... San Francisco police out of control.
Caturday cat. Kinda.
Polar vortex, my ass.
Revolutionizing the government.
The weirdness of those who attack birth control.
Making proper bread.
Saturday, February 08, 2014
More Fukushima'd than ever....
Fukushima
Fukushima radiation levels underestimated by five times - TEPCO
Fukushima radiation levels underestimated by five times - TEPCO
TEPCO has revised the readings on the radioactivity levels at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant well to 5 million becquerels of strontium per liter – both a record, and nearly five times higher than the original reading of 900,000 becquerels per liter.
Strontium-90 is a radioactive isotope of strontium produced by nuclear fission with a half-life of 28.8 years. The legal standard for strontium emissions is 30 becquerels per liter. Exposure to strontium-90 can cause bone cancer, cancer of nearby tissues, and leukemia.
Thursday, February 06, 2014
All in a day's work..
1,500-year-old plague victims shed light on disease origins Study finds catastrophic diseases aren't things that evolve once – 'they actually evolve multiple times from different ancestors.'
Early Europeans had dark skin and blue eyes
Mailman tries to deliver the mail.
Cow terrorists. And 19 animals that kill the most people (cows are on the list).
What happens when you fail your high school science class.
Survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing go on an adventure.
How businesses 'regulate' themselves.
Bag snaggers of New York.
Why can't we have hyper fast internet like Chattanooga?
Early Europeans had dark skin and blue eyes
Mailman tries to deliver the mail.
Cow terrorists. And 19 animals that kill the most people (cows are on the list).
What happens when you fail your high school science class.
Survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing go on an adventure.
How businesses 'regulate' themselves.
Bag snaggers of New York.
Why can't we have hyper fast internet like Chattanooga?
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