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Melamine Found Contaminating Soy Meal Fed to Organic Chickens
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000571_melamine_organic_chickens_China.html
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, December 2, 2008

Want to know what organic chickens are fed? If it's soy meal from China -- a 
cheap source of protein -- it may also contain melamine.

That's what happened with 300 tons of soy meal being fed to organic chicken 
in western France. Authorities discovered the soy meal contained an 
astonishing 50 times the maximum limit of melamine: 116mg per kg of soy meal.

This cheap Chinese soy meal was delivered to 127 "organic" chicken farms in 
France. Nobody yet knows how many organic chicken farms in the U.S., Canada, 
U.K. or Australia might also be feeding their chickens toxic levels of 
melamine.

This is part of the dangerous widening of the melamine scandal I predicted 
earlier today: Melamine contamination is now reaching into the meat supply, 
and it could even include organic meats such as beef, pork and chicken.

The truth is, nobody knows if meats sold in the U.S. are free of melamine 
because nobody has tested the meat! But we do know one thing: Factory meat 
farms will feed just about anything to cows, including cheap protein sources 
from China. And melamine could very easily be found in toxic quantities in 
feed products right now being fed to dairy cows or other animals harvested 
for their meat.

It also means that organic meat may be contaminated with melamine due to the 
feed sources. Certainly, organic meat is usually safer than conventional 
meat, but if organic poultry farms can be caught up in the melamine scandal, 
then just about any animal farming operation could be hit next (except for 
100% free-range animals eating nothing but live grasses in the fields -- and 
this is so rare that for all practical purposes it does not exist in the food 
supply).

I fully expect this scandal to widen even further, eventually encompassing 
conventional dairy farms. It all comes down to the FEED, and conventional 
farmers are notorious for buying the cheapest sources of feed, even if they 
come from China. Cattle farms, after all, feed their cows chicken poop. 
Really. It's a USDA-approved feed ingredient for cattle operations. What 
happens if those chickens are eating melamine in their soy meal? They have 
melamine-contaminated poop, and that gets eaten by the cows, which creates 
melamine-contaminated milk or cow meat. And that gets eaten by the humans.

Think about it.

Now, I've taken some criticism from a few Chinese readers who object to my 
criticism of China in all this. I just have one thing to say to those folks: 
Maybe you should go visit your homeland and take a look around to get a dose 
of reality for yourself!

I speak Mandarin, and I've been to China. I lived in Asia for years and know 
the culture first-hand. There's a lot to love about Eastern philosophy and 
Chinese culture. It's one of the cultures I admire the most in the world 
(they created Traditional Chinese Medicine, after all). But one thing the 
Chinese really suck at is food safety, and it's no exaggeration to say that 
mainland Chinese (the Communist Chinese, not the Taiwanese) will sell you a 
vat of poison and call it milk if it earns them an extra dollar for doing so.

I've done business with the mainland Chinese people, and far too many of them 
(but not all of them) are outright liars and cheaters. You order a palette of 
electronics and they ship you a palette of bricks (after you pay for the 
electronics, of course). They'll use bait-and-switch tactics on foods, food 
ingredients and herbs, and they'll cut everything with cheap fillers like 
grass, leaves and bark. There are virtually no honest suppliers of anything 
in China, and the only way Wal-Mart gets its own products made in China with 
any sort of decent quality is because they have American managers heading the 
factories there, kicking ass and keeping the workers honest.

Pharmaceuticals made in China contain toxic contaminants, too. You probably 
didn't know that U.S. drug companies get a lot of their drugs made in China 
because it's cheaper there. And the FDA has never inspected the factories 
there. So guess what? It's adulterated poison coming out of the Chinese 
factories. That's one reason why pharmaceuticals are so dangerous: Many are 
made in China! (http://www.naturalnews.com/023149.html)

China has a lot of things to admire. Food safety isn't one of them. Think 
about it: Chinese factories will put melamine in the baby formula to be fed 
to their own people! There are entire towns in China where the locals there 
won't dare touch the infant formula made by the factory that employs half the 
town. And why won't they touch it? Because they know what's in it! So they 
all go to work poisoning the infant formula, and they all know it's poison, 
but they don't care because it's shipped off to the next town to poison 
somebody else's baby.

That's China for you. 100% in yo face, raw, blunt, honest reality. Zero 
exaggeration. You don't believe me? Go there yourself. I already did.

And by God if you ever visit China, don't you dare be foolish enough to eat 
anything made by one of those street vendors. The last time I tried that, I 
ended up surrendering my vegetable dumplings to a giant rat that emerged from 
the sewer grate under the sidewalk and verbally threatened me if I didn't 
hand over two dumplings for him and one for his female friend. The rats there 
are downright aggressive, and they don't mind a little melamine in their 
food, either.

For the record, I should note that while China is one of the most dishonest 
suppliers of food and other products that you'll ever find, Taiwan is far 
different. Quality standards are much higher in Taiwan, and the people there 
are far more honest, too. I trust Taiwan-made products far more than I would 
trust something made in China.

Quality control is even better in Japan, where it even exceeds U.S. quality. 
If you want something made right, get it made in either Japan or Germany. So 
don't lump all the Asian countries together when you're thinking about 
quality or honesty, and don't lump Taiwan in with China. They're two separate 
countries, after all, even if the mainland Chinese foolishly still claim they 
own Taiwan.

Here are my rules of thumb regarding common nations (satire):

If you want it cheap and dirty, buy from China.

If you want it affordable and usable, buy from Taiwan.

If you want it precise and durable, buy from Japan.

If you want it overpriced and unhealthy, buy from America.

If you want it over-engineered and unjustifiably expensive, buy from Germany.

If you want it expensive but high quality, buy from Canada.

If you want it cheap and fast, and you don't really care if it actually 
works, buy from Mexico.

If you want it cool-looking but useless because it's broken, buy from Korea.

If you want it cheap and late, buy from India (and keep your fingers crossed).

If you want to pay triple taxes on it, buy from the UK.

If you want it to snub your friends and make them feel inferior, buy it from 
France.

If you'd rather just talk about buying it instead of actually buying it, then 
do it in Italy.

If you don't want it at all, send your money to the email scamming guy in 
Nigeria!

Hopefully, you have a sense of humor about all this. Most people find these 
lists funny, but if you feel offended by this list then feel free to send me 
a funnier list you write yourself. If it's sufficiently funny (and 
insightful), I'll publish it.