Re:Globalism and poison food

[Guest guest]

Ok, you are expressing yourself about food standards, world trade, and our sweet

American right to be protected, and I get that, I really do.  Now I will express

myself.

 

1.  If Americans are stupid enough not to wash their jalapenos thoroughly and

boil their fishheads past the danger zone, that is on them.

 

2.  Our food is just as sad.  Even if we grew everything inside our continental

US, which we could do, we have many climates and soil pHs, we would still have

to deal with Genetically Modified foods (these are not old enough to prove

safety), low concentrations of nutrients in the soil (not so much the fertile

plains anymore, do to a lack of consiencous farming), and all of these horrible

pesticides that they spray everyday (these are definately not safe), unless you

buy organic.  We should be washing our jalapenos with soapy water to remove

these chemicals anyway, so that should be a nonissue.

 

3.  People in poorer parts of Mexico make their clothing and shelter, even

transportation, out of our TRASH.  They do not recieve government aid,

schooling, and the other million safety clauses that we have.  They may not have

facilities to use while they pick jalapenos from dawn to dusk, and they are too

poor to have a bottle of hand sanitizer in their pockets.  But these jalapenos

are cheap to buy, and they can be sold at the same prices as American ones,

thereby acheiving higher profit.

 

So, please, get mad- but get mad at the businesses that want High Profit above

all else.  Get mad at American consumers for being lazy about researching what

they are buying.  We literally affect more changes on the world by what we are

buying than any other way.

 

There's me rant, thanks for your kind attention.