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Thread ID: 80961	2007-07-11 00:15:00	No more food from China please !	Digby (677)	PC World Chat

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567961	2007-07-16 19:52:00	I have wondered about food with water in it, such as tins of tomatos etc. In China they arrested a person who was filling his pigs with waste water to make them weigh heavier at the market. You have no control at this end and no idea over the quality of the water that the plants are grown in, or the food is preserved in. I have thought twice and left some goods when i saw they came from Thailand and other 3rd world countries (like italy :) )	netchicken (4843)
567962	2007-07-16 20:26:00	To cut short and make it very simple: STOP BUYING ALL PRODUCTS FROM CHINA!:D Whilst I like your sentiment ! it would be a bit hard not to buy things made in China . So many things clothes, appliances, pcs, printers, cameras are made in china . Regards Digby	Digby (677)
567963	2007-07-16 20:40:00	I have wondered about food with water in it, such as tins of tomatos etc . In China they arrested a person who was filling his pigs with waste water to make them weigh heavier at the market . You have no control at this end and no idea over the quality of the water that the plants are grown in, or the food is preserved in . I have thought twice and left some goods when i saw they came from Thailand and other 3rd world countries (like italy :) ) Not much problem here with foods from Italy or any of Europe really . . . . I tend to stay away from Russian and maybe some Yugoslavian foods . . . but that's just my choice . I buy canned oysters and clams from Thailand . . . so far no problems there either . Chinese foodstuffs may be questionable . . . but there is a new ground swell here to label country of origin . It seems to be gathering steam . . . so it might happen . It's not unlike our politicians to sell the people here out for a few brown envelopes under the table . Just watching the tv and we find that less than 2% of our imported foods are USDA inspected anyway . . ugh! How're you gonna boycott something from someplace that isn't listed on the package label or flap?	SurferJoe46 (51)
567964	2007-07-16 21:55:00	Yeah, the stream that goes below the motorway/DB breweries. The creek thats behind Monterey Ave in Otahuhu (literally a dumping ground for lazy buggers) And the Asia Restaurant... :yuck: :yuck: :yuck: :yuck: :yuck: How people can eat at a place like that is beyond me. You won't see me there even with a barge pole. Roaches in your food, toilets that probably have never been cleaned before... *shudders* Oh and the toilets in Stage one of Sylvia Park. YUCK Especially on weekends. Thank goodness no-one knows where the ones in Stage Two are. The joke is: In NZ, the City councils have a set of very stingent hygence regulations governing restourants and they are 'health inspectiors' doing their rounds but yet some of the restaurants are still in such a condition! If you were to get a set of rules and match it with the restaurants, you will probably find that about 50% of them do not comply with the standards. There is no corruptions in New Zealand ?????????? !!!!!!	bk T (215)
567965	2007-07-16 22:18:00	To be a "little" fair to China, I think the Western medias (including NZ) are mainly reporting those negative incidences rather than a fair report of both the negative and positive stories. A friend of mine just visited China a month ago and showed me all those photos he took. I was shocked and don't belief that it's in China! It's so cleaned and well maintained, because all we see and hear in NZ are all those negative reports about China. Most of the places (including the toilets) are as clean as New Zealand if not, better! He even took a few pictures of those toilets! The cities are so modern and I have to say that we (NZ) are now far behind. Their Broadband Internet services (for instance) in the cities are definitely much better than what we are. There are two sides of each and every story. Let's have a more open mind when looking at others and don't wear coloured glasses. China is a huge country and they have 1.3 billion people to feed! The problems they have are just beyond our imagination while we are still in NZ. Even a small country like NZ, there are places like some parts of Ohahuhu!	bk T (215)
567966	2007-07-17 01:30:00	Most of the places (including the toilets) are as clean as New Zealand if not, better! H That is not correct. Maybe in some of the newly redeveloped cities, but certainly not in the towns and villages which make up the majority of china. It is in the towns and cities that the food is grown, not in the newly developed cities	robbyp (2751)
567967	2007-07-17 01:32:00	Whilst I like your sentiment ! it would be a bit hard not to buy things made in China . So many things clothes, appliances, pcs, printers, cameras are made in china . Regards Digby There are also alternatives that aren't made in in china . If a can of apricots doesn't say where it is made, I would avoid it for one that says where it's apricots are made . If it says made and grown in NZ, then that one would be the winner .	robbyp (2751)
567968	2007-07-17 01:36:00	Most of my favourite watties have made in New Zealand from local and/or imported products. Isnt that just being vague?	rob_on_guitar (4196)
567969	2007-07-17 01:58:00	Most of my favourite watties have made in New Zealand from local and/or imported products. Isnt that just being vague? Yes, and I don't like it either. I think full disclosure should be enforced.	FoxyMX (5)
567970	2007-07-17 02:05:00	Whilst I like your sentiment ! it would be a bit hard not to buy things made in China . So many things clothes, appliances, pcs, printers, cameras are made in china . On TV the other night they interviewed a British (I think) woman who went a whole year avoiding buying anything made in China . At first the family found it relatively easy but it got harder and harder as, like you say, so many goods come from there . They bought their son tons of Lego as that was virtually the only toy he could have that wasn't made in China . And when her husband bought a drill (or whatever it was) he picked off the "Made in China" label so that she wouldn't find out . He confessed when she asked him, however . :p At the end of the 12 months she had to give up as it was just too difficult going without so many things or trying to find non-Chinese made items . They've got us by the short and curlies . :(	FoxyMX (5)
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