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 User ID: 36721404  United States05/03/2019 02:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would trust the chinese food safety system as far as I could throw it. Quoting: NawtyBits I would trust the chinese CDC to do the right thing, transparency-wise, as far as I could throw it. (Think SARS, H5N1,etc) Read labels. Grow your own food. Buy locally grown and processed food. 100% agreed! Remember when they killed our cats and dogs just from pet food? Why would they do less for us? Five star thread and green for you - thank you for warning us - this could be huge - especially in the US shortage of pigs after the midwest flood disaster!!! Prayer is the most powerful force on earth. “I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” Abraham Lincoln I sign all karma given. Would that those giving it to me followed suit. |
| wisconsin
User ID: 77597591 United States05/03/2019 03:23 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | . Quoting: wisconsin ... wondering if this is why the iowa PUSH TO GET A 26000 PIG FARM in nw wisconsin? ... . Where in NW Wisconsin. I live in NW Wisconsin and haven't heard of this. . ... the Trade Lake area Grantsbury by Burnett county ... . ... the farmer selling the land is also the town chairman and his land is zoned for agriculture so he doesn't believe the deal can be stopped ... . ... the DNR as asked March 15 for permit ... . Ah. Grantsburg. About 1+45 from me. I'm much Norther than that. Thanks for the info. . ... and it's such a BEAUTIFUL FRESH AREA! ... to put swine there is nothing but $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ driven ... . ... and this is by environmentally sensitive areas ... . . Our family celebrates The Lord's Feasts: [link to www.grafted-promise.net] Fools and the dead don't change their minds. Fools won't and the dead can't. When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar. You are only telling the world that you fear what he might say. Quoting: CountryWise Amos 5:13 - Therefore at such a time the prudent person keeps silent, for it is an evil time. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 77606735 United States05/03/2019 03:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.bloomberg.com (secure)] Quoting: NawtyBits Pig ‘Ebola’ Virus Sends Shock Waves Through Global Food Chain What started with a few dozen dead pigs in northeastern China is sending shock waves through the global food chain. Last August, a farm with fewer than 400 hogs on the outskirts of Shenyang was found to harbor African swine fever, the first ever occurrence of the contagious viral disease in the country with half the world’s pigs. Forty-seven head had died, triggering emergency measures including mass culling and a blockade to stop the transportation of livestock. Within days, a government notice proclaimed the outbreak “effectively controlled.” It was too late. By then, the disease had literally gone viral, dispersed across hundreds of miles in sickened animals, contaminated food, and in dirt and dust on truck tires and clothing. Nine months later, the contagion has spread nationwide, crossed borders to Mongolia, Vietnam and Cambodia, and bolstered meat markets globally. [snip] The strain of African swine fever spreading in Asia is undeniably nasty, killing virtually every pig it infects by a hemorrhagic illness reminiscent of Ebola in humans. It’s not known to sicken people, however. Comment: This is a Bloomberg article, so written from a business perspective, and not a health perspective. Pig viruses often cross-over to humans. And China isn't known for being forthcoming when it comes to releasing info on things like this. I think this bears watching. Why is it all epidemics, whether animal or human, seem to start in China? With the exception of ebola in Africa, just about everything originates in China. I hope they didn't put that dead pork in my pet food.... |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 77606735 United States05/03/2019 03:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | On the heels of a massive cocaine bust at a New Jersey port, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced another big seizure on Friday of roughly 1 million pounds of pork smuggled from China, where there’s an ongoing outbreak of deadly African swine fever. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73611031 [link to www.nj.com (secure)] . This might explain why they changed the recipe in my cat's food. Was egg and pork based (my cat has food allergies) and they changed it to chicken, which my cat is allergic too. Figures. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 77220250 United States05/03/2019 03:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Honestly, I know a lot of Muslims who eat pork. They say that law came from a time in history when parasites etc and act like it is no big deal. Then you see article about someone arrested for flinging bacon at one on subway. Must be if they are Americanized or not. |
| WatchingEddyMin
User ID: 77432349 United States05/03/2019 03:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would trust the chinese food safety system as far as I could throw it. Quoting: NawtyBits I would trust the chinese CDC to do the right thing, transparency-wise, as far as I could throw it. (Think SARS, H5N1,etc) Read labels. Grow your own food. Buy locally grown and processed food. China owns Smithfield. That's US based & think they have maybe like 1 inspector for thousands of carcasses a day (or hour-not sure specifics) so I'm sure that's fine. "Doom! Doom! Doom! Something seems to whisper it in the very dark trees of America." - DH Lawrence "If any question why we died, tell them because our father's lied" Epitaphs of War, Rudyard Kipling (lost son in WW1) |
| NawtyBits
(OP) User ID: 77332452 United States05/03/2019 04:37 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would trust the chinese food safety system as far as I could throw it. Quoting: NawtyBits I would trust the chinese CDC to do the right thing, transparency-wise, as far as I could throw it. (Think SARS, H5N1,etc) Read labels. Grow your own food. Buy locally grown and processed food. China owns Smithfield. That's US based & think they have maybe like 1 inspector for thousands of carcasses a day (or hour-not sure specifics) so I'm sure that's fine. Yeah, I used to get Smithfield hams, years ago. When China bought Smithfield, I stopped buying from them, even though they assured us that US hams would still be raised and processed in the US, and that they bought the company to export pig meat to China to feed its people. There is no reason to trust the Chinese in any way. WWJBD-What Would Jimmy Buffett Do "If it's wet and not yours, don't touch it." Oregon H1N1 Summit speaker |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 75399114  Slovakia02/03/2020 02:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | On the heels of a massive cocaine bust at a New Jersey port, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced another big seizure on Friday of roughly 1 million pounds of pork smuggled from China, where there’s an ongoing outbreak of deadly African swine fever. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73611031 [link to www.nj.com (secure)] . THIS is why we are fucked. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But, soon. In simple terms, it is likely that during a severe acute infection, certain elements of the immune response need enhancing at times and need suppressing at other times. What is required of the immune system early in the infection, when the pathogen is dividing rapidly and reaching high infectious loads, may be very different from what is needed later, possibly only a few hours later, when either the pathogen is at steady state or the pathogen load is falling due to either the effects of appropriate antimicrobial therapy or the clearance of the pathogen by the immune response. Treating patients with the “right” immunomodulating drug but at the “wrong” time could worsen the clinical outcome. We still do not understand the delicate nature of this rapidly changing immune response, and until we do, it is unlikely that we will develop rational therapies that target the exact phase of the immune cascade and administer those therapies at the time they are needed. |
