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Default US-made pizza recalled due to E. coli; maybe China should boycott all US-made pizzas

Damaeus > wrote:
> In news:rec.food.cooking, posted on Fri,
> 02 Nov 2007 07:23:52 -0700:
>
>> You get the message: US made products may be just as bad as Chinese
>> manufactured ones: So many products may be tainted with E-coli like
>> last fall's lettuce. Protectionism can go both ways. I'd rather not
>> have Pelosi and her protectionist congress dumping on China just
>> because their own consumers prefer Chinese stuff to their own
>> industry. The US should fix their own trade deficit rather than
>> picking on China in vain.


> A lady I work with was telling me about this story this morning at work. She
> said that the pepperoni used on the Totino's pizza is actually made in China,


No it isnt.

> and it's the pepperoni that's the problem here.


> And you know, it's also interesting that all these stories about Chinese-made
> product recalls is coming about as the dollar sinks lower and lower. It almost
> sounds like some kind of economic warfare with China...


Only to those who are a sucker for a mindless conspiracy theory.

The real reason is the trillion bucks thats been ****ed against the wall in Iraq.

> China, a country which supposedly holds a great portion of our national debt.


So it aint in their interest to see the value of the dollar decline, stupid.

AND they have chosen to lock their own currency to the USD too. Funny that.

> How that happened, who knows.


Its obvious how that happened to anyone with even half a
clue, they sell lot more to the US than they buy from the US.

Same thing happened with Japan until the chinese got their act into gear.