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BIRD FLU: New Toxic Strain Headed Our Way! Be care what you eat/buy!

Last activity 09 September 2012 by annawang

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Jaitch

A new strain of bird flu' is headed south from China.

< http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/worl … u-reports/ >

Chicken products

Don't buy eggs or chicken products from VNese cho (markets) OR let anyone do so for you either.

No doubt you have seen the eggs in supermarkets carrying a stamped logo, this means the eggs have been inspected at a proper checking station.

Eggs from cho usually have a felt tip ink mark instead of a logo - THESE ARE NOT INSPECTED!

I realise you most unlikely buy chicken and chicken meat parts from cho, but maybe your friends do!

Breathing Masks

Better buy some of those breathing masks for the children, too, the schools of all types are germ incubators.

Chinese food ... for other reasons

Avoid Chinese manufactured food products, too. They might have found a new use for Melamine. Chinese foodstuffs include Sewer Oil, Toxic Bean-sprouts, Pesticide-drenched ‘yard-long’ beans, Leather milk, ‘Aluminium’ dumplings, ‘Lean meat powder’ pork, ‘Cadmium’ rice and even Toxic take-away/out boxes. < http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne … ndals.html >.

The funniest one was the case of the Glow-in-the-dark Pork. As the Daily Telegraph. London described it: "pork that glowed an eerie, iridescent blue when the kitchen lights were turned off. Online users dubbed it 'Avatar' meat and remained sceptical despite reassurances from the Shanghai Health Supervision Department which said the pork that has been contaminated by a phosphorescent bacteria and was still safe eat if well-cooked."

Only in China? I wonder.

annawang

Thanks for sharing this valuable information, Jaitch.

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