Re: America Wounded Bashes China

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:50:40 -0700, mark.evins@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

That's kind of what's happening when China and the US compete for the
same energy resources, both with growing demands on failing supply.
China holds a huge amount of our national debt and could cause untold
havoc by dumping dollars and shifting to euros.


China will certainly not take the current China bashing by the US FDA
lying down for to remain silent will be to accept guilt and only
encourage more bashing. This refers to pet food, shrimps, fish,
(more?). I can't think of any counter attack plan though. Any
suggestions?

Its not about economics for the dollar amounts are not that
significant nor the products that vital to either country if banned
entirely. Anyway its not a ban for that will bankrupt their own
importers and hurt their own consumers through higher prices and
product unavailability. This is the opening shots of a US campaign
to demonize China and to make China jump through lots of hoops to sell
to the US . The products "banned" so far are to test the waters to
see what the fallout will be before increasing the pressure and number
of Made in China products.

These seafood importers are unlikely to find another source at short
notice. Their alternative sources will most likely be Vietnam,
Thailand and the Philippines which will take some time to ramp up to
replace China sources. The trouble is that they will most likely buy
the fish feed, etc. and use the techniques, antibiotics to reduce
farmed fish diseases and fatalities to produce the fish. These are
the same techniques used by salmon farmers in western countries and I
think they use fish feed from China too.

The suggests a way of fighting back. Provide data that these other
(country) fish farmers also use the same techniques as China and
therefore would come under the same FDA scrutiny as applied to China.
The second measure is to raise the fish and shrimps as at present but
to avoid adding antiobiotics during the last phase of their maturity
just before export. The antibiotic avoidance period shoul be just
long enough for any residual antibiotics to clear their bodies
naturally. The FDA ban is based on unsubstantiated suspicion that
there may be residual antibiotics in the farmed seafood not that they
can test for it or have any case of a human being harmed by current
fish farming practices.

In the meantime I am looking forward to cheaper Chinese seafood in my
grocery stores
.

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