Some beekeepers are reporting that their organic beehives are not suffering from Colony Collapse Disorder, which is decimating normal hives in North America. The speculation is that this is because of the absence of pesticide fumigation to combat the varroa mite, a parasite which has been attacting hives in North America for the last few years.
Here is a website about organic honey bees.
"Our chemical products are mostly used for additives, not for animal feed," said Li Xiuping, a manager at Henan Xinxiang Huaxing Chemical in Henan Province. "Melamine is mainly used in the chemical industry, but it can also be used in making cakes."
There you have it folks - from the International Herald Tribune. It's at the very bottom of the article. And the Washington Post has the revelation that before melamine there was urea being added, for the same reason - inflated and bogus protein content.
Melamine scrap is used in North America as an abrasive blast medium. Sonapa sells recycled plastics, including melamine scrap with formaldehyde. Here is there ad for "Type III – Thermoset Melamine Formaldehyde: Melamine is engineered for stripping the most difficult surfaces while providing an effective stripping rate. Melamine is the most aggressive plastic abrasive, offering an excellent range of stripping capabilities. Melamine can be used as a replacement for glass beads and other harsh abrasives."
In China, melamine scrap is mixed into soymeal, and sold to feedlots and farmers. A manager with Tai'an Yongfeng Feedmill Co. Ltd in the coastal province of Shandong says that "The chemical plant next to us used the melamine scrap as waste for landfill and built houses on it. Then they tore down the buildings to get the scrap once the price rose. It is a very popular business here. I know people have been mixing this since 1991."
One article I read spoke of an online market, Alibaba.com, where companies sell and buy chemicals and which is very big in China.
The picture above is from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and shows a latrine situated over a fish pond, in China. The addition of manure and other waste materials like sewage, is a common practice in aquaculture - see Auburn University's online site about it with pictures.
The FAO recommends in this instructional guide to would-be freshwater fish farmers recommends that latrines be located at last 10 feet from fish ponds to avoid the fish being unsafe to eat.
the Chinese and Vietnamese are using latrine ponds full of human and other wastes to raise fish which they sell to North American and other markets for export.
Aplastic-anemia.org has this information about imported fish: "According to the Catfish Institute, most of the catfish from Vietnam are raised in floating cages in the Mekong River or in "latrine ponds" in provinces along the river. Slow moving currents during the dry season adversely affect cage-raised fish and the Mekong River is subject to pesticide contamination... "Latrine ponds are depressions that employ the Chinese system of channeling human and other waste into ponds used to raise fish."
Melamine is a plastic. Aminopterin is a toxic folic acid analogue and a rat poison (banned, at least in North America). Cyanuric acid is a pool chemical.
None of them should be on anyone's menu. But now pigs, (see here also), as well as chicken and fish have been found to have been fed food containing contaminated feed grade grain products - all from China.
The FDA suspects that China is adding nitrogen-rich toxins DELIBERATELY to grain products to jack apparent protein contents and they have found there way into our food supplies. And not just our pets' food.
Peachy.
Scientists have found that combining melamine and cyanuric acid produces crystals like those found in the pets who died after eating the contaminated food. Here is another report about the chemical reaction.
"Our food-safety system is broken," Rosa L. DeLauro, Chair of the US House Subcommittee that funds the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture, told UP reporters in this Science Daily article on the tainted farmed fish.
She's hardly understating the problem.
Meanwhile over on the Huffington Post, David Goldstein says he's having a crisis of faith in the US FDA, which he terms the faith-based Dining system. Some interesting quotes on that site.
The plot is very thick at this point - the motive - sell inferior goods for a fattened profit margin to the gaijin: The International Herald Tribune is reporting that Chinese chemical producers say it's common knowledge that ... for years feed producers in China have quietly and secretly used cyanuric acid to cheat buyers of animal feed. Two of the chemical makers said that Chinese feed producers used cyanuric acid because it is even cheaper than melamine and is also high in nitrogen, enabling feed producers to artificially lift the protein reading of the feed.
Over a month ago when the pet food scandal first came to light, I held back from reporting what my gut and intuition knew to be true - that the toxins had been added on purpose. "Why would someone do that?" I wondered to myself. Also I had no hard evidence at that time - just a sneaking suspicion that since feed grains are eaten by more than just pets, the initial scandal was just the tip of the iceberg. I really truly wish I had been wrong. But no - the scandal keeps getting bigger and the plot has thickened and stinks considerably more than when I predicted it would get messy and ugly. It's not just wheat gluten, it's rice and corn and who knows what else in the Chinese grain department.
What are we feeding our animals? What are we feeding ourselves? Should we be trading with regimes that are unprincipalled enough to sell us garbage?
And why is ANYONE in North America buying wheat form the Chinese who have enough trouble feeding themselves, when Canada, the United States, Russia and Ukrainian are the largest wheat producers in the world??
Is it just all about money? Maybe not! There may be VERY SINISTER REASON the Chinese governemnt is allowing this if the expatriate Chinese journalists over at Epoch Times are correct. China has imprisoned several of the news outlet's reporters.
According to two speeches by CCP's former Defense Minister, Chi Haotian and published by the Epoch Times, China's government plans to exterminate US citizens. Here is the other article "The War Is Approaching Us". Chi was responsible for and in operational command during the Tianammen Square massacres in the 1990's. The Epoch Times is run by people who do a lot of investigative work in China. I hope they are wrong but my gut says this article is true. The country is strapped for space, they have annexed Tibet. They would stand to gain a lot of land and resources if they could take over North America. The Chinese government is not without a plausible motive to follow through on Chi's Mein Kampf-esque ideas.
Science is stranger than fiction, frequently. As I like to say - science is silly, science is scary, science is sexy. File this one solidly under scary!
By now you may have heard of CCD, or Colony Collapse Disorder, which has been seriously depopulating the bees agriculture depends upon, throughout the US, Europe and, possibly, Canada. There are a lot of theories as to what the culprit is behind the mass die-off. Mostly it's a mystery.
Now there is a new one which sounds a bit like something written by the folks who penned Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, or some other B-grade sci-fi flick: Cell phones and their microwave transmitters may be behind the CCD that is wiping out bee populations in North America and Europe. I wish it was a joke! Nope - the theory goes that bees navigation is throw off by the radiation involved in mobile telephone systems. This comes from researchers at Landau University, according to the Independant's article.
Back in March, an alternative health reporter posted that Electromagnetic Radiation could be behind the bee die off. he ahs some interesting references and one link I saw that seems to make some sense is from HESE, the Human Ecological Social Economical project.. Again the idea is that EM from a variety of sources, in particular anything using what are known as VLF or ELF waves - very low frequency/extra-low frequency) which have been shown to have effects on some animals health, particularly so near power corridors.
I did a bit of research into this back in the late 80's when I
was bored and had time to poke around at U of O in the Vanier library. Unfortunately I cannot recall the name of the books and publications I read. It was forever ago! I looked into it because I used to get migraines whenever I visited an aunt who's place backed up onto the huge power corridor that runs through part of Scarborough, in Toronto.
Here is some older information the US National Institute of Health on effect of EM in the work place.
reposted from National Academies e-list
