I love it, so now it's ok for China to add lead to paint and sell us poisonous dog food because we use antibiotics and sodium nitrate. China can do anything, because the U.S. is worse, so why shouldn't China be allowed to ship us dangerous goods? Next thing you know, China will drop a bomb on L.A. and Chinese will say it's ok because we dropped a bomb on Hiroshima.
I support the USA to ban China's toys with lead based paint, the article's gist is not to justify these things, but to focus on problems of the USA government that is obscured by blaming China.
And it is not just antibiotics and sodium nitrite that are toxic. Top 20 things that are more dangerous to children than lead paint in Mattel toys http://www.newstarget.com/022014.html FREE Subscription to the "NewsTarget Insider" E-mail Newsletter Learn inside information not reported in the mainstream media! Receive articles on nutrition secrets, raw foods, pharmaceutical warnings and natural medicine. Instant download of over 20 exclusive reports and interviews. 100% free of charge, easy to unsubscribe. Get breaking news alerts on natural health solutions, health freedom laws, climate change and more. No spam! We don't rent or sell e-mails. Your Email Address: The mainstream media is amusingly irrational when it comes to reporting scare stories. The latest example involves the lead content of Mattel toys made in China. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a third recall of Mattel toys involving over 700,000 toys containing unacceptably high levels of lead paint (over .06 percent lead). Irrational parents are rushing back to retailers in droves, turning in their Mattel toys to "save their children" from the dangers of lead paint. Mattel, for its part, is being rightly blasted in the media for selling shoddy products made with toxic heavy metals. But here's the interesting part in all this: Parents directly poison their children every day with products far more dangerous than Mattel toys. Don't believe me? I'll name twenty things in this article that are far more dangerous to children than Mattel toys. It doesn't mean Mattel toys are safe, of course. They apparently do contain unacceptably high levels of lead, and there's no question about the toxicity of lead. But children don't eat toys nearly as often as they eat some other toxic substances given to them by their parents, and even as parents are herding back into retailers to refund their toxic lead-laden toys, they're returning home and poisoning their children with many other products that are far worse. The press, of course, reports nothing about these other toxic products. And why? Because they're made in America. American products poisoning American children American products, you see, are often given blanket immunity by the U.S. press. While the media is happy to jump on toxic lead found in Chinese products, they completely ignore (for example) the toxic mercury that dentists continue to place into the mouths of young children all across the country. Why is it considered highly dangerous for a child to merely touch a toy with .06 percent lead paint while it is considered perfectly safe for a child to chew on a filling made with 40 percent mercury? Mercury is far more toxic than lead in many ways, yet the media has nothing to say about the mass poisoning of children through the outmoded dental work still being performed on children today. Mercury fillings were invented before the Civil War, and they're just as toxic now as they were then! Of course, if dental fillings were made in China, the U.S. press would be screaming about their toxicity! But since they're installed by crazed U.S. dentists -- many of whom still manage to seem convincingly sane -- there's zero coverage in the mainstream media. Reporting the truth about dangerous chemicals, heavy metals and other threats to children is extremely selective. The public never hears the real truth about what's dangerous -- they only hear what the media want them to think is dangerous! But I've had it with popular media distortions. Here, I'm going to reveal the top 20 things that are more dangerous to children than the lead paint in Mattel toys. Interestingly, most of these are things that parents intentionally give their children (or feed to them!). If you're worried about lead paint, you should be far more worried about these 20 things... The top 20 things that are more dangerous to children than lead paint in Mattel toys 1. Mercury fillings Often called "silver fillings" to hide the fact that they're made from mercury, these highly toxic fillings are placed directly into the mouths of children where they are inhaled (mercury vapor) and swallowed, causing systemic mercury poisoning to the child and leading to long-term neurological damage. Visit www.IAOMT.org and watch the "Smoking Teeth = Poison Gas" video to learn more. 2. Vaccines Think vaccines are safe? You've been hoodwinked by the popular media parroting drug company propaganda. Vaccines are preserved with methyl mercury, one of the most dangerous chemical forms of the toxic heavy metal. This mercury is injected directly into the bodies of children where it causes severe neurological damage. And yes, it does cause Autism, despite what you've read in the dumbed-down press. Only a fool would inject their child with mercury-preserved vaccines. 3. Hot dogs Hot dogs are made with horrifying processed meat parts (click here to see shocking photos of processed meat products, then preserved with a cancer-causing ingredient called sodium nitrite. As detailed in my book Grocery Warning, this ingredient causes brain tumors in children, not to mention leukemia, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and other cancers. Hot dogs are far more dangerous to a child's health than lead paint in my opinion, and yet parents keep feeding them to their children! 4. Antibacterial soap How about a little nerve toxin in your soap? That's what's found in antibacterial soap. It's a toxic cocktail of chemicals designed to kill life. That's how it kills bacteria. The problem is that it also harms people -- especially infants and children who are trying to develop healthy nervous systems. Avoid all products claiming to be "antibacterial." You're better off using natural soap (like Dr. Bronner's soap, www.DrBronner.com ) and letting your child's immune system fight off common bacteria. The world isn't sterile, after all. You can't turn your house into a germ-free bubble. 5. ADHD drugs Would you give your child street drugs like speed or meth? Probably not, but what if your doctor wrote you a prescription for speed and said your child needed it because he was ADHD? If you're like most parents, you'd fall in step and start giving your child speed. But wait, you say: ADHD drugs are not speed, are they? But of course they are. They belong to a class of drugs called amphetamines. They used to be illegally sold as speed. Now they're prescription drugs, and they're given to children in schools all across America (and elsewhere). Psychiatrists and drug companies are making a killing dosing up kids and infants on substances that used to be considered illegal street drugs (and that have no legitimate medical use whatsoever). 6. Sports drinks For some reason, parents irrationally believe sports drinks are healthy because they contain the word "sports." Didn't they notice the neon green artificial coloring? Sports drinks are, in my opinion, a nutritional joke. Made from salt water, processed sweeteners and petrochemical coloring, many of their ingredients are actually harmful. Drinking water would be smarter, and feeding your child some healthy trace minerals would be even better. Low on potassium? Eat a banana. 7. Cough syrup and over-the-counter medicines Nearly all children's over-the-counter medicines contain multiple toxic substances such as chemical sweeteners, preservatives and additives. Cough syrup, in particular, has been scientifically proven to be absolutely worthless in preventing coughs. Many "children's" medicines are actually more toxic than their adult counterparts because they're sweetened up and cosmetically enhanced with artificial colors made from petrochemicals. Yet parents poison their children every day with over-the-counter medicine. 8. Sunscreen The sunscreen industry is a huge scam. Most popular sunscreen products actually cause skin cancer due to the numerous toxic chemicals they contain (which are quickly absorbed into the skin where they cause DNA mutations that lead to cancer). Even worse, sunscreen blocks the UV radiation that allows the skin to manufacture all-important vitamin D -- the most powerful anti-cancer nutrient yet known to modern science. It prevents over a dozen different cancers, yet parents block it by slathering toxic sunscreen on their children, all while mistakenly believing they're "protecting their children from cancer!" What a scam. 9. Fluoride in the water I've always found it amazing that city water officials were dumb enough to actually buy a toxic waste substance and arrange to have it dripped into the public water supply where it would be ingested by infants and children. The result? Mass fluorosis and toxicity to children everywhere. Didn't these people realize that fluoride only works topically? (That is, it only works if you rub it on your teeth, then spit it out, and even that only works if you're using natural fluoride, not the chemicals spit out as byproducts of the fertilizer industry, which is what city water departments are buying and dripping into the water supply.) Click here to see my CounterThink cartoon on this topic. Whoever heard of drinking a topical medication in the first place? It's like swallowing sunscreen to prevent sunburn. Even worse, putting this into the public water supply effectively mass medicates everyone with a bioactive chemical substance that no one has been given a prescription for. This is all done with no regard for the level of natural fluoride children might already be ingesting from other sources. The situation is so crazy that it's difficult to find a more insane example of medical tyranny than the mass fluoridation of public water supplies. The fact that doctors and dentists so vehemently support it demonstrates just how crazy they really are. 10. Processed milk Children as young as 10 years old are now being diagnosed with heart disease and clogged arteries. Ever wonder how it happened? It's due in part, I believe, to all the processed milk children are swallowing these days. Not only is the milk contaminated with pus, blood and detectable levels of pesticides and other chemicals, it's also homogenized, meaning the fats are artificially modified in a way that makes them stay in suspension. This homogenization also makes milk fats dangerous to cardiovascular health. While I support the consumption of raw, unprocessed milk, I think that consuming processed, homogenized milk is dangerous to the health of infants, children and adults alike! 11. Fast food Fast food is extremely unhealthy for children. Not only are the foods often fried, homogenized, hydrogenated and otherwise altered, they're also laced with chemical additives, taste enhancers, processed sugars, petrochemical food coloring and other unhealthy substances. Strangely, many parents actually reward their children for good behavior by buying them unhealthy fast food meals, thereby creating a psychological association between good feelings and junk food. (Fast food restaurants further exploit this psychological link by building playgrounds and running feel-good advertisements that emphasize friends and fun, then link those good vibes to their food products.) 12. Antidepressant drugs Children as young as six months old are now being put on psychotropic drugs such as SSRIs (antidepressants). These drugs, we now know, cause suicidal thoughts and violent behavior, especially in young boys. They imbalance brain chemistry and even alter the body's metabolism of sugar, promoting diabetes and leading to rapid weight gain. These drugs are so dangerous that feeding them to children should be considered a crime. Every single school shooting involving a child in the United States in the last 15 years has been linked to antidepressant drug use. Need I say more? 13. Chemical laundry detergents Parents are shown fancy ads on television depicting how wonderful and clean their clothes will be if they wash them in brand-name laundry detergent. What they're not shown, however, is the toxicity of all the synthetic chemicals that go into most laundry detergent products. The fragrance chemicals alone are often carcinogenic, and they're just as bad for the environment as they are children's health. A new alternative has appeared, however: Soap berries! It's laundry soap that grows on trees. We offer it at www.BetterLifeGoods.com 14. Flame r****dant chemicals Did you know that new mattresses for infants and children are often sprayed with extremely toxic flame r****dant chemicals? These are easily absorbed through the skin of infants and children where they contribute to numerous neurological disorders and immune suppression. Many clothing products are also sprayed with flame r****dants, as are some carpeting products. In the push to make everything fireproof, state regulators (who have mandated the flame r****dant chemicals in states like California) have created a toxic environment for everyone. I suppose if you're a politician, it's always better for a million people to die of a mysterious disease that can't be linked to you than to have one baby burning up on the evening news with fingers of blame pointed directly at you. 15. Soda Aside from directly promoting diabetes and obesity, sodas also contain high amounts of phosphoric acid, a substance that dissolves bones and causes a loss of bone mineral density. This causes massive tooth decay as well as a shrinking jaw bone and overall skeletal fragility. Diet sodas are even worse, since they contain chemical sweeteners linked to neurological disorders and learning disabilities. 16. Air fresheners Air fresheners contain cancer-causing chemicals. Unleashing them in the house exposes children to these chemicals, promoting asthma and other respiratory problems. If you value the health of your children, avoid air freshener products and just use essential oils or citrus peels instead. (Peel an orange and hang the peel in your kitchen.) 17. Synthetic vitamins Many children's vitamins are made with cheap, synthetic "vitamin" chemicals that actually harm people who take them. Plus, many are loaded up with artificial colors, sucrose and chemical sweeteners. Avoid cheap, store-bought children's vitamins or anything containing cyanocobalamin (a toxic form of vitamin B12). Quality children's vitamins are available through sources like Nordic Naturals (fish oils) and www.IntegratedHealth.com (also check www.WellnessResources.com for high-quality supplements). 18. Dryer sheets Most popular dryer sheets and fabric softeners are made with toxic synthetic chemicals that are not safe to use on children's clothing. The fragrance chemicals alone are often highly carcinogenic, and the other chemicals contribute additional toxicity to the clothing. Children's clothes should never be washed or dried in chemicals. Only use natural detergents and fabric softeners, or avoid the fabric softeners altogether. 19. Bacon Most bacon and sausage are processed meat products made with sodium nitrite (like the hot dogs, above) and contaminated with various chemicals lodged in the animal fats. Conventionally-raised beef, pork and chicken products are, in my opinion, extremely toxic to the human body and contribute to colon cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer and many other diseases and disorders. If you make meat for your children, shop for 100% organic, free-range, antibiotic-free meats that have no nitrites or nitrates. 20. Shampoo and bath products Virtually all popular shampoo and bath products sold on the market contain cancer-causing chemicals. The ingredients read like a top-40 list of toxic chemicals. Virtually none of these chemicals have ever been tested or approved for use on humans (they are simply ignored because the FDA astonishingly believes the skin won't absorb chemicals). If you want healthy products, use the shampoo I recommend: Pure Essentials Fragrance-Free Shampoo from Earth Science (www.TheNewES.com) Keeping your health priorities straight So that's the list of 20 items that are more dangerous to the health of children than the lead paint in Mattel toys. Most parents have no concern whatsoever for any of these 20 things, but they're going ape-shoot-crazy over the tiny amounts of lead in their Barbie toys and Elmo stuffed animals. It all just goes to show you that the sheeple will think anything the mainstream media tells them to think (and they'll ignore everything else). It's classic American contradiction: Returning a Mattel toy at the local toy store while taking your child to a dentist to have mercury implanted in the cavities caused by all the soda the kid consumed at home (because the parents keep buying Coke and Pepsi). If it all weren't so downright tragic, it would almost be funny. Almost.
blaming China? For what? Maybe China should worry about making it's products safe before attacking the U.S. over our products. I'm never going to buy "Made in China" again. At least not until they clean up their act. By the way, I don't consume any of the items you list as being more toxic as lead paint. But it seems ridiculous to say that gatorade is more toxic then lead paint, i think you're not being credible.
Hey Indian in New York, do you read New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/b...800&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print)? Just last year alone, FDA found 1,187 shipments from India were in violation of US import food safety standards (the 2nd most behind Mexico). In particular, products like black pepper, coriander powder and shrimp were infested with Salmonella. Why does India do such ungrateful thing to US? Why why why? What did US do India to deserve massive bombardment of filthy foods from the most populous democratic country? Boycotting India imports sounds good to ya?
Well, I didn't write it myself, and just because I post some pages long article doesn't mean I agree with anything in it. On gatorade being more toxic than lead paint, chemically, yes lead paint is more toxic. But health wise, it's debatable a point because we don't drink lead paint, but we drink all these minor toxic chemicals in sports drinks.
Why would you post it if you don't espouse it's views? Personally, i find it very subjective and not much of real evidence. Anyone can tell you that using chemicals for anything is not healty. Pesticides, additives, etc. Even natural foods can be unhealthy - eating too much of anything is toxic. Drinking too much water is toxic. So you could claim that water can be more toxic then lead. Lead serves no purpose though. Where has floride is added to keep teeth healthy, what does having lead in paint do? What purpose is it? And with an average live expectancy of 79 years, I don't think the FDA has done a terrible job. China is exporting quite a bit of bad stuff, but imagine what they are doing to their own people. Over 700,000 people each year die as a result of pollution alone - and many Chinese health officials (not in the gov't) estimate that figure to be very conservative. Seriously, drinking a gatorade isn't going to do much to me. But I don't drink it because it's just empty calories that does nothing more than water. If I am going to eat something unhealthy, it better be indulgent, like a slice of homemade cheese cake. But the products we use, we trust to be safe and not deadly. Mercury fillings aren't done anymore. People are aware that artificial sweetners are controversial. But does anyone know the food they are about to consume might poison them? No....and that's what disturbing. China is looking bad right now because it's gov't is really making a lot of missteps and it has to take responsibility for all of this. Spying is one thing, but hacking into military computers with attacks designed to do more then steal information is a lot more aggressive then simply spying. Sending kids lead painted toys, killing pets, and on top of that, manipulating the currency to keep our trade deficit artifically high? Allowing for the pirating of American innovation? On top of that, add to it that the gov't is polluting the Chinese countryside and intimidating Taiwan, and commits massive civil rights violation...and you can see that the media doesn't have to work very hard to cast China in a bad light. On top of it, Bush, the guy you love, is attending the Beijing Olypmics. That's basically giving China the green light to continue all of these practices, which is both bad for the U.S. and bad for Chinese people.
It's one thing to need to clean up health standards - many restaurants around the world have this issue. It's definitely a global problem. But China is knowingly putting dangerous ingredients into products to a point where Chinese officials have admited that 20% of their products are unsafe. To me, that's the real thing that bothers me. But I do love how you try to use my race to go after India. I am American by the way.
that cant be worse than the live worms found in Chinese chocolates theres even some pics of those disgusting chinese chocolates: http://www.nbc6.net/slideshow/news/14012270/detail.html
Stop trying to change the subject and focus the topic at hand, which only deals with spying allegation. I'm not going to address anything other than the hacking allegation. On the technical side I do not think you have the sufficient technical knowledge to differentiate the seriousness associated with different kind cyber activity, and the method use to determine the origin of the attack. If there is any actual disruption that affects military operation, then indeed that would be an act of war. But that's not what we have. You just don't seem to understand the difference between intelligence gathering and actual cyber attack. And there is still no evidence that the whole thing originates from the PLA. Initiating reaction base on speculation will not bode well for any party. And you also fail to see the parallel between the receiving end of your complain and what CIA/NSA/etc. does on an hourly basis. There is no international law regarding espionage. Israel outlaws death penalty and yet mossad is free to carry out assassination operation everywhere. Your request to have China unilaterally sign a non-trespass treaty that never exist, while having the US exempt from the said treaty, is laughable. It just not going to happen. You don't have to agree, but you need to understand.
No, Indian subcontinent is the hotbed for Salmonella-caused diseases, such as Typhoid fever. Even if other places have similar problems, is it OK for India to continue to dump Salmonella-contaminated food products into US? China's product safety concerns me too, just as black pepper, shrimp, and rice from India. But how are you so sure India doesn't knowingly try to sneak filthy foods into US? Do you work for them? Links?
I would disagree. That could easily have escalated into an extremely bad situation. You know... missiles flying, carrier battle groups coming into the Taiwan Straits, loaded for bear (or panda, to be more accurate). All that dangerous stuff we try not to think about too much. Thankfully, it stayed under control. More or less. D&D. Impeach Bush and Cheney.
You are right in many things. I myself are concerned about food safety in China too, but is Amercian food that much better? I doubt it, 79 years of expectancy is good, but is it good enough? why it can't be 90 years? is it possible that the FDA hasn't done a good job? Now, I don't know where you get that 0.7 million Chinese die as a result of pollution figure, but how about the USA, do you know how many Americans die as a result of pollution and unsafe food each year? if your government does tell you that figure, why focus on China? Yes, nobody is saying that China has no fault. The issue is, Chinese government or media don't create an ultimate foreign scapegoat to create paranoia and shift focus away from domestic problems, as long as citizens are willing to buy it, they are gonna keep selling it.
The chemicals we put in the air and in our food is always disturbing. It seems like China and Western food companies are attacking the health of the consuming public from two different fronts.
I know enough to know the difference between hacking and spying: Considering the attack shut down the computer systems of our Secretary of Defense, which certainly can be considered an interruption of military functioning, by your own argument China has commited an act of war. This isn't about spying, it's about disruption of the U.S. military network. This is very serious indeed that the PLA would do this.
As I said, India and every other country should be held to FDA standards, and if they are failing, certain products should be banned for import. So Indian spices should be scrutinized more carefully. China's issues go far beyond this though, and it's the knowingly sending us contaminated or dangerous products.
I got the 0.7 M figure from the NY Times in an article they did on China and pollution a few weeks back. I'll see if I can find a link but it may be too late as they move things to their archives which you need to pay for. I don't know the exact figure, but I can tell you that it's not anywhere near the same rate. Our number one killer is heart disease. In China, it's pollution. That's what I do know. Consumers won't continue to buy Chinese products at this rate. And it's not just the U.S., it's many countries around the world this is getting news coverage in. No one is using China as a scapegoat to hide behind other problems. In fact, I think this will actually make people scrutinize more what's in our products as well.
it is known that in the past there were many recalls in all kinds of import. just recenlty, people have started anti-china propaganda. nothing new here. china should ban all these foreign investors cause they are the reason the environment is so bad. i would rather be poor and live in a good environment than rich and in a ****hole. oh wait, americans want cheap ****. **** man, now what. fine, let's give them cheap ****. you get the **** you paid for. go check all that **** before you sell. duh!
