Here at Red Dirt Soap we are proud
to say we do NOT use anything grown in China.
When it comes to anything from China,
"organic" beware! There has been lots of research on the issue quite
extensively. And the conclusion is that "organic" from China is largely
a fraud. Here's why...
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. USDA organic standards has
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?"
Well your wrong. "Organic" certifies a process of how food is grown
or produced. Certifies that the farmer doesn't add pesticides, herbicides,
petroleum-based fertilizer, metals or synthetic chemicals to the crop (among
other things), and 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.
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.
The 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.
Some exceptions to this is 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 how do you know what is safe 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 has no ethics and cannot be trusted.
And the laboratory tests bear this
out. 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 found in
terms of metals contamination was actually a non-organic chlorella produced in
Korea.
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.
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 there has always been the little chuckle when something
breaks and you discover it's "made in China" has, for decades. 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.
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.
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.
China has virtually no
environmental enforcement whatsoever, the very idea that something grown in China
can be certified "organic" is absurd. 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. 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.
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, 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 you should use extreme
caution. 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. If you buy "organic" foods,
superfoods or supplements grown in China, you need to know about this.
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.
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.
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.
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