By Mike Adams
When it comes to foods, superfoods and
even nutritional supplements from China, "organic" is largely a hoax.
This is my opinion, of course, but I've been researching the issue quite
extensively as the key decision maker for new products in the Natural
News Store. And I've come to the conclusion that "organic" from China is
largely a fraud. Here's why...
First off, you're going to be shocked to learn that there is no limit to how much mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic and aluminum is allowed in "organic" products.
It's a fact: USDA organic standards place
NO LIMITS on levels of heavy metals contamination of certified organic
foods. Even further, there is no limit on the contamination of PCBs, BPA
and other synthetic chemicals that's allowed in certified organic
foods, superfoods and supplements.
At this point, you're probably shaking
your head in disbelief and thinking, "No, that can't be true. Organic
standards must check for heavy metals and chemical contamination,
right?"
No! "Organic" certifies a process of
how food is grown or produced. It certifies that the farmer doesn't
add pesticides, herbicides, petroleum-based fertilizer, metals or
synthetic chemicals to the crop (among other things), and it certifies
that the soil must be free from such things for a certain number of
years before organic certification is approved.
But organic certification does nothing to address environmental sources of pollution such
as chemtrails, contaminated irrigation water, and fallout from
industrial or chemical factories that might be nearby. A certified
organic farmer can use polluted water on their crops and still have the crops labeled "organic."
For this reason: the environment in which organic foods are produced is critical to the cleanliness of the final product.
Organic farming in a clean environment
produces clean, organic foods. But organic farming in a polluted
environment produces contaminated organic foods. And China is one of the
most polluted chemical cesspools on the planet. The pictures on the
right show some scenes from China, a country suffocating under a pollution nightmare.
As you view these pictures, ask yourself:
Would you eat food grown there? Even if it were sold by Whole Foods and
labeled "organic?"
China is an environmental nightmare
China is a nation that has
virtually no environmental regulation enforcement. In China, anything
goes: You can dump mercury into rivers. You can spray raw human sewage
sludge on crops. You can produce factory-made chemicals and blow the
waste products right into the air through smokestacks. In China, many
rivers are so toxic that, from time to time, they actually catch on fire
and burn.
He DECLINED. Why? Because the river there is so polluted that swimming in it would mean certain death.
It is this water that's often used in
"organic" food and superfood production in China. So even though the
farmer is following organic process standards, he may be using
irrigation water that's wildly contaminated with metals, chemicals and
even pesticide residues. He may be spraying hormone drugs on the crops
because there's a pharmaceutical factory upstream.
Here's the kicker: In a country with virtually no environmental laws, "organic" food production is largely a fraud because environmental sources contaminate the foods or super-foods being produced there.
There are some exceptions to this, by the way. Notably goji berries are
grown at high altitude, far away from the pollution of China's cities
and rivers. Goji berries sourced from China tend to be very clean and
have very low levels of contamination. There are no doubt other
exceptions to the rule, but the difficulty is in knowing what to
trust that comes out of China.
In North America, "organic" is legitimate precisely
because North America has far more strict environmental standards.
Organic is clean food, responsibly produced, and consistently less
contaminated than conventional food. The same is true across Europe,
where organic standards are also strict. But in China, "organic" is
often a joke. Almost a hoax, in my opinion.
And the laboratory tests bear this out.
For example, we just published an investigative story on
chlorella showing that "organic" chlorella from China is polluted with
nearly ten times the aluminum level of "organic" chlorella from
Taiwan. And the cleanest chlorella we found in terms of metals
contamination was actually a non-organic chlorella produced in Korea.
China is a nation that lacks ethics
Remember, too, that China is a communist
regime. It is a country where all religion has been outlawed and the
people are never taught ethics or morality. They have no moral compass.
Across China, the majority of the population believes that the best way
to get ahead is to CHEAT, lie and steal, even if it means harming
someone else in the process.
Remember: China is the country where they
put melamine in infant formula, knowing that it will kill little
children. China is the country where the paint on children's toys
contains obscene levels of brain-damaging lead. China is a nation of
shortcut-takers who will do anything to cheapen a product as long as
they can cover it up and trick the buyer. This is why "made in China"
has, for decades, been synonymous with "crap quality."
Here's a little note that will interest pet owners: If
you buy pet treats made in China, you are murdering your pet with the
most insane chemicals imaginable. The stuff that goes into some pet
treats made in China is highly toxic and causes cancer. This is one of
the main factors behind the alarming rise of cancers among dogs and cats
in North America.
All this isn't just secondhand
information, by the way: I lived in Asia for two years and traveled
extensively throughout the region. I speak a fair amount of Mandarin
(Chinese), and I've interacted with lots and lots of people from China,
Hong Kong and Taiwan. I can tell you that Taiwan is a country with much greater honesty, integrity and quality than
China. In Taiwan, religion is allowed and openly practiced (Buddhism,
mostly). In Taiwan, there is a sense of responsibility to customers.
There is a philosophy of striving for quality. Taiwan is to China like
revolutionary America was to the British Empire. Taiwan is a island
nation of hard-working, creative, innovative entrepreneurs, and when I
look to import products from Asia, I always try to find it in Taiwan
first because I know Taiwan means quality.
But in China, it's exactly the opposite:
There is no sense of responsibility to customers. The overriding
philosophy is to screw the customer, even on the very first order,
knowing that the customer will never buy from you again! In China, the
idea is to CHEAT people rather than make them happy. You see this all
the way to the top of the government which is, of course, a police state
communist regime where laws are enforced at gunpoint against a
completely disarmed and helpless population that has no rights. China
is a culture of corruption, deception and exploitation.
Now, of course, there are people in China
who rebel against all this. There are exceptions to the rule, and there
may even be some honest organic food producers in China that buck the
trend. Not all mainland Chinese are bad people. Many wish to overthrow
the corrupt government and restore freedom, liberty and justice to the
country. But because they are all disarmed (China has no Bill of
Rights), they are powerless against a dictatorial government. They are
slaves to the system.
Health Ranger Select brand BANS all foods, superfoods and ingredients from China except for goji berries
I made a decision months ago to ban
anything produced in China from my own label, with the exception being
goji berries. If a food, superfood or supplement has my name on it, I
will not use ingredients sourced from China unless I know and can VERIFY
the end-product cleanliness of the product.
So if you see the "Health Ranger Select"
brand or the "Storable Organics" brand, know that it's clean and very
carefully sourced.
We source from the USA, Canada, European
countries, Peru and even Thailand for some ingredients. Mexico is
acceptable for some ingredients as well. But China is a big red flag. I
simply can't trust that most foods, superfoods or supplements from China
are going to be consistently clean and honest.
China is the kind of country where you
order a sample of a raw material -- say pomegranate juice powder -- and
the first batch you receive is really clean and passes all the lab
tests. So you order 5000kg of the stuff, and when it arrives, it's all
full of lead and pesticides.
Chinese medicine herbs from China are
notoriously contaminated with lead. The same is true for green tea and
many other ingredients that naturally absorb heavy metals.
All sorts of products at Whole Foods, by
the way, are grown in China but certified "organic." What a joke. Given
that China has virtually no environmental enforcement whatsoever , the
very idea that something grown in China can be certified "organic" is
absurd. Without a clean environment, you can't product clean food even
if you follow organic growing standards.
So why do so many formulators and food companies in the USA still buy ingredients from China? Because they're CHEAP.
Buying from China means higher profit
Here's the dirty little secret of the
natural products industry... and yes, the "dirty" is quite literal in
this case: Raw materials from China are cheap! Across the board, raw
materials (foods, superfoods, supplements) from China are about 1/4th
the cost of materials grown in North America or Europe.
This means getting your ingredients from
China grants your product a lot more profit in the marketplace. For
those selling through Whole Foods -- whose product shelves are littered
with ingredients made in China -- this profit margin is essential to
economic survival.
If you're buying a superfood powder sold
at Whole Foods and paying $50 at retail, the actual ingredient cost that
goes into that superfood canister is often as little as $5. So sourcing
those materials from China is crucial to having the margins. Whole
Foods might only pay your company $22 or so for a product they sell at
$50. So your company has to buy the materials, pay for shipping,
insurance, labor, packaging, formulations and everything else and still
somehow make a profit to stay in business. So you source from China. You
make a really nice-looking label, you get it "certified organic" with a
nice USDA logo on it, and you sell it to Whole Foods which adds another
layer of legitimacy to the product.
But inside the bottle, there could be
mercury hiding in there. Or pharmaceutical residues. Or pesticide
residues. Or just about anything, including melamine.
Now, obviously Whole Foods has a level of quality control in place, and they do require C of A's for products they carry. But China is expert at FAKING these documents and tricking importers, formulators and manufacturers.
In China, the idea of forging a
laboratory analysis document is no big deal. Fabricating fake documents
is routine. You have to understand the philosophy of these people living
without any code of ethics, surviving under a police state communist
regime: There are no ethics. No values. No moral compass. Forging a fake
lab report is no different to them than planting seeds: it's just one
more step needed to make money. There is no moral difference in their
minds between telling the truth and lying. It's a "relativistic"
morality philosophy.
I'm not saying all people in China are
liars and deceivers. But a lot of them are. Anyone who has actually
lived there for any length of time knows exactly what I'm talking about.
This is a country where deceptive manufacturers take white sesame seeds
and coat them in toxic black ink just to sell them as "black sesame
seeds." This is a country where infant formula producers spike their
formula with kidney-destroying melamine in order to make an extra five
cents a pound, even while killing babies by the thousands. THEY DON'T
CARE. China is a nation that has abandoned morality and even attacked
it. This is a country where the Falun Gong group of meditation advocates
and yoga practitioners is arrested and thrown in prison by an extremely
oppressive, dictatorial government.
Look, cultures are different everywhere
around the world. You want to hang out with really nice, intelligent and
honest people? Get yourself some Dutch friends. They're the most upstanding, moral, educated bunch of folks you'll ever meet.
You want to hang out with
highly-innovative rule followers? Get yourself some German friends. They
follow the rules. And they're smart, innovative people on top of that.
Brilliant minds. Some of the greatest scientists in history came out of
Berlin.
You want some friends who are wildly
creative? Those are Americans. Americans make the best movies, the best
music (well, along with UK musicians anyway), and a lot of the best
computer software on the planet. Americans are rebels. They break the
rules and forge a new path. America is a nation founded on rebellion.
But if you're looking for people who will
stab you in the back in a business deal, go the China. There, you will
find the most back-stabbing, dishonest cheaters and liars you'll
probably ever meet, short of Nigera's "Prince Nubula" whose emails
promise you'll receive a million dollars if you only send them $5,000
first.
Why you won't hear this truth anywhere else
I know that telling the truth is
unpopular and not politically correct. I'm not interested in winning a
popularity contest. What I'm doing here is flat-out telling the truth that
most other people are too afraid to say on their own: The very idea of
"organic" coming out of China is a disturbing contradiction.
And organic standards have a huge gap in
the fact that they don't require foods to actually be free from mercury
or other contaminants. Overall, organic is a wonderful standard and I've
been a strong advocate of organic, but when a "USDA organic" label is
slapped on a product grown in China, you really have to scratch your
head and say, "Yeah, it might be organic, but is it clean?"
It may be, but you just don't know until
you test it. "Organic" grown in the USA can be assumed to be clean,
but organic grown in China must be assumed contaminated unless proven
otherwise.
Until China enforces some really strict
environmental standards, "organic" from China is largely a fraud in my
opinion. It's a hoax. You can lie to yourself and say, "Well it's
ORGANIC so it must be clean!" but you'll be swallowing mercury, lead,
pesticides and other synthetic chemicals in various amounts.
Laboratory tests confirm everything I'm
telling you here. This is the dirty little secret of the organic food
industry that nobody's talking about.
China's environmental nightmare
Just how polluted is China's environment? As I mentioned above, it's so bad that a Chinese environmental official was recently
offered over US$30,000 to take a 20-minute swim in a local river. He declined the offer, as would any sane person.
Are these the same rivers that are being
used to produce "organic" crops in China? You have to wonder. A river
can be so inundated with smelting factory runoff and chemical pollution
that even bacteria struggle to survive in it; yet this water can be
legally sprayed on crops that are exported to America as "organic."
If you buy "organic" foods, superfoods or supplements grown in China, you need to know about this.
As The Guardian reports:
A recent government study found that groundwater in 90% of China's
cities is contaminated, most of it severely. The head of China's
ministry of water resources said last year that up to 40% of the
country's rivers are "seriously polluted", and an official report from
last summer found that up to 200 million rural Chinese have no access to
clean drinking water.
By the way, this is another story
altogether, but I can tell you with 100% certainty that China is headed
for an environmental collapse. The country has polluted itself far
beyond the point of long-term sustainable life. Children are being born
as mutants. Rivers support no fish life. Soils are building up obscene
levels of contaminants and becoming so toxic that crop yields are
affected. Cities are so filled with airborne pollution that the mere act
of breathing causes cancer. And on top of that, China's one-child
policy has resulted in mass gendercide where baby girls are routinely --
and yes, I mean ROUTINELY -- murdered, drowned, suffocated, etc.,
because the family wants a son, not a daughter.
In its quest for economic power, China
has poisoned itself to death, and now it's only a matter of time before
the nation collapses in a cesspool of toxicity and lies. The economic
"boom" of China is nearly over, and it will be followed by an
environmental implosion so huge and disgusting that the world will be
absolutely horrified. Remember: China is so corrupt that it won't stop
factories from openly dumping toxic waste directly into the groundwater
supplies. Instead of acknowledging the source of pollution, Chinese
officials simply accept bribes and cover it up. The corruption in China
is so deeply rooted in the culture that honesty and accountability can
never overcome the deception.
With some exceptions, when you buy food
grown in China, you are buying food produced in the most toxic
environment on planet Earth, grown by some of the most deceptive and
most corrupt liars and back-stabbers on the planet, all ruled by one of
the most dictatorial and tyrannical governments history has ever known.
That about sums it up.
Ultimately, China has a terminal
environmental crisis on its hands, compounded by an eternally corrupt,
dictatorial communist regime government that oppresses freedom and
outlaws religion while forcing families to kill their own baby girls
under its population control mandates.
In summary, China suffers from:
• An environmental nightmare
• An almost complete abandonment of morals and integrity
• A deeply corrupt communist police state political system that mandates the mass murder of baby girls
Is this the vibe you really want to be putting into your body?
Source:
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