Any of the xenophobes who were railing against China a couple of weeks back want to step up and recant yet?

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People think recalls are a bad thing but in most countries of the world they wouldn't do anything about contaminated products that reach the market. Every recall you see is proof that the system is working. True, you'd like to catch every problem at the factory/farm but the volume of products moved makes that a pipe dream.

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So, when a contaminated American products gets through inspection, reaches the market and is recalled it's the system working, but when a contaminated Chinese product gets through inspection, reaches the market and is recalled it's because China is a evil, irresponsible country with no regard for human safety? You don't see a xenophobic double-standard here?

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To be clear, Keith, that was directed at some other comments of the past few weeks, not you.

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The posting should read "there have been no reports of illness", at least according to the linked article.

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The book, Fast Food Nation, was a bit dry, like most informative books, but offer to look and study inside the complex and very profitable food industry. Richard Linklater took the information in the book and weaved it into a feature film focusing mainly on the immigration element. The film features big a actors like Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis, Ethan Hawke, Luis Guzman, Patricia Arquette, Kris Kristofferson, and should be required watching for everyone eating fast food. Few people understand how a risk they are eating a simple hamburger and why we have outbreaks of E coli and hat is off to Richard Linklater for making this important film instead of Spiderman six.

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