FAA favoring business over safety.

[densoo]

This is the consequence as unions lose their power to MBAs, and FAA doesn't get rest rules, among other FARs, in place.

(NYT) In recent weeks, China’s news media have reported sales of pork adulterated with the drug clenbuterol, which can cause heart palpitations; pork sold as beef after it was soaked in borax, a detergent additive; rice contaminated with cadmium, a heavy metal discharged by smelters; arsenic-laced soy sauce; popcorn and mushrooms treated with fluorescent bleach; bean sprouts tainted with an animal antibiotic; and wine diluted with sugared water and chemicals. Even eggs, seemingly sacrosanct in their shells, have turned out not to be eggs at all but man-made concoctions of chemicals, gelatin and paraffin. Instructions can be purchased online, the Chinese media reported.

Manufacturers calculate correctly that the odds of profiting from unsafe practices far exceed the odds of getting caught, experts say.
China’s iron political controls ensure that no powerful consumer lobby exists to agitate for reform, press lawsuits that punish wayward producers or lobby the government to pay as much attention to consumer safety as it does to controlling threats to its own power. Instead, like Alice after falling through the rabbit hole, consumers must guess what their food and drink contain. "Basically, people now feel nothing is safe to eat," said Sang Liwei, who directs the Beijing office of the Global Food Safety Forum, a private agency.

The authorities have revoked suppliers' licenses and have arrested five managers, according to Chinese news media reports. But Mr. Chen is not reassured. "None of them are reliable," he spat. "They really have no morals. They will do anything for money."

Ain't the free market grand!

 

[Raoul Duke]

Lesson: Dont move to China

 

[Jetjockey]

Or let them financially control us....................Uh oh........too late.

$aftey is #1...............

 

[jmreii]

Don't step on my MBA; nothing personal, but business is business!

 

[SSDD]

FAA favoring business over safety...That's the way its always been!

P.S. Safety is our #1 priority...yea right.

 

[kngarthur]

This is the consequence as unions lose their power to MBAs, and FAA doesn't get rest rules, among other FARs, in place.



Ain't the free market grand!

I'll take the free market over government any day! More people die from governments than the free market!

 

[JAFI]

So tainted meat in China equates to the FAA rest rules????

OK...... Then what does Buffy the vampire slayer mean to ... say ... the price of fries at McDonalds??

You are losing me here.

 

[labbats]

Are we talking about movie Buffy or TV Buffy?

 

[Dornier 335]

I'll take the free market over government any day! More people die from governments than the free market!

Wasn't it in school that they taught us that the Government's power comes from its people? We elect the people who make the laws and make the decisions for us on a grand scale.

Some things seems to have gone lost since then...

 

[densoo]

So tainted meat in China equates to the FAA rest rules????

You are losing me here.

If I hadn't found a way to make this airline related, the moderator would have moved it.