06/19/07 China's Dirty Secret

The media, (China's and ours ) would like us to believe that the tainted products flooding into our country from China are the result of a few 'oops's " from the working class sector. Is the gaunt illiterate peasant typically depicted in our papers the cause of these shipments tainted with banned pesticides, filth and toxic chemicals? Hardly! That is why our government and multi- national corporations want this s story to go away, and that is why papers like the Times tend to bury this outrage deep in the business section. China now makes half the aspirin in the world and 70 percent of the world's penicillin. 90 percent of our vitamin C comes from China as well as the majority of A, B-12 , and E. Consumers are never privy to this information by virtue of the fact the US doesn't require drug companies to note the origin of ingredients and the press who relies on pharmaceutical ad dollars aren't going to rock the boat, neither are politicians milking off shore accounts because they all recognize the face behind China's dirty secret as theirs!