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Post  Posted: Oct 08, 2008 - 11:53 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top
Post subject: Concerns of Melamine in vegetables!

Bloody hell, is anything safe?

I'm thinking it is more of a media scare than anything but FYI

http://www.theage.com.au/national/contamination-scare-spreads-to-chine se-vegies-20081008-4we1.html
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Post  Posted: Oct 08, 2008 - 11:56 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

f me...
how much you want to bet the only product coming out of china without melamine in it , is melamine

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Post  Posted: Oct 08, 2008 - 12:11 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

As I joked last week in another thread, there is more than suspicion that most chinese beers use Formaldehyde to "clarify" the mash...
http://www.beer-faq.com/beer-basics/formaldehyde-beer/
Think about it: Melamine + formaldehyde =....?
you can build a nice kitchen countertop in your stomach over time wink2
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Post  Posted: Oct 08, 2008 - 01:34 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

It's fine. It's better living though chemistry is all. It's the next tofu! Bring on the Mela-shakes!

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Post  Posted: Oct 08, 2008 - 01:49 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

At least you have lived yourself breathing the air in here.

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Post  Posted: Oct 08, 2008 - 02:07 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top
Post subject: Re: Concerns of Melamine in vegetables!

Lordlunchalot wrote:
Bloody hell, is anything safe?

I'm thinking it is more of a media scare than anything but FYI

http://www.theage.com.au/national/contamination-scare-spreads-to-chine se-vegies-20081008-4we1.html


If it isn't melamine in veggies it will be farmers shlt on them, nope nothing is safe....

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Post  Posted: Oct 08, 2008 - 02:15 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

SirFiddler wrote:
f me...
how much you want to bet the only product coming out of china without melamine in it , is melamine



Yeah, they are worried that it will be tainted with powdered milk.

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Post  Posted: Oct 08, 2008 - 02:20 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top
Post subject: Re: Concerns of Melamine in vegetables!

shanghaiceltic wrote:
If it isn't melamine in veggies it will be farmers shlt on them, nope nothing is safe....


Hahahaha......at least if farmers' siht it's something natural rather than human synthesized. Could be called recycling as well. Laughing
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Post  Posted: Oct 08, 2008 - 05:49 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

mat wrote:
SirFiddler wrote:
f me...
how much you want to bet the only product coming out of china without melamine in it , is melamine



Yeah, they are worried that it will be tainted with powdered milk.


hahahahahaha

that german air/food/beer seems to be doing good, you're actually funny for a change Wink

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Post  Posted: Oct 08, 2008 - 09:36 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

yes i got scared about the melandkim scare so had to check all of my cd in my record collection and i found i had some.

is it bad for health or please tell me what i should do

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hello

bye

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Post  Posted: Oct 09, 2008 - 02:59 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

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your tongue and your teeth look so cool, could you lend some of them to me????????????????????
by the way, I need your tongue and teeth to be cooked like those hot dogs in here, so I know you can do me a favor for that now, cause it far better than any kind of german beer/air/food in world~~~~~~


Living proof that a lifetime of Chinese food severely affects the brain...

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Post  Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 10:29 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

theage.com.au?

wtf, that a news corp web site which is known to be the worst media in this world

really surprised to see so many brainwashed guys here in this thread, sad for you and your family.
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Post  Posted: Oct 13, 2008 - 12:07 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Its a Fairfax website. Newscorp did once own a 7.5% stake in Fairfax but they sold it May 2007.

Now who is brainwashed?
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Post  Posted: Oct 14, 2008 - 05:01 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

news.com.au article on the same brainwashing topic:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24465192-36398,00.html

is the news corp doing brainwashing on general public?
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