If a country executes people who murder close-up with guns or knives, it should also put to death officials and executives who kill at a polite distance by knowingly approving and selling lethal products. For all its faults as the world’s high-executioner state, China picked an equal-opportunity victim in Zheng Xiaoyu, former head of the State Food and Drug Administration.… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pagesTerry Allen has finally written an article I can agree with — all except the last paragraph.
I say, put them in prison and feed them only from uninspected, high profit foreign imported crap. Their terms would run as “Life without parole or until medical attention becomes too costly for the prison budget.”
We can start with those current or former members of congress who voted to export our jobs or to cut funding for the FDA and USDA.
Posted by whattheheck on Jun 26, 2007 at 8:47 AM This is why EVERYONE should grow their own food. Or if you are too lazy to take care of potted plants(and anything can be grown in a pot), at least buy from a LOCAL farmer. You KNOW what you’re getting that way.
Of course, this also involves actual COOKING, which I have discovered is a lost art.
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