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.
The shocking truth about ‘organic’ foods grown in the
world’s worst environmental cesspool
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. (Article Continued Below)
"It’s so bad that a Chinese
environmental official was recentlyoffered over US$30,000 to take a 20-minute
swim in a local river.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.
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 superfoods 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?
By Agence France-Presse Monday, March 25, 2013 10:33 EDT
Dead pigs lie on rocks next to a tributary of the Yangtze
River, on March 12, 2013.
Shanghai said the end of an embarrassing pollution case which saw dead pigs floating down the city’s main river was
in sight, with the total number recovered now standing at more than 16,000.
“The city’s water territory has already basically finished the work of fishing out the floating dead pigs,” said
a Shanghai government statement released late on Sunday.
China’s commercial hub recovered 98 pigs on Sunday from the Huangpu river and 93 on Saturday, the authorities
said, the first times the daily toll had fallen below a hundred in days.
The total number Shanghai had removed from the river, which supplies 22 percent
of the city’s drinking water, had reached 10,924 as of Sunday afternoon.
In addition, Jiaxing in neighbouring Zhejiang province, whose farmers are accused by Shanghai of dumping the
dead pigs into the river upstream, had found 5,528 carcasses, state radio said last week.
Mystery remains over the exact origin of the dead hogs. Jiaxing has insisted it was not the sole source, while
Shanghai said its farms have not reported an epidemic which would kill pigs in such large numbers.
The images of dead pigs in China’s commercial hub have proved a huge embarrassment for the city, which is
seeking to grow as an international financial centre.
The scandal has highlighted China’s troubles with food safety, adding the country’s most popular meat to a
growing list of food items rocked by controversy.
Animals that die from disease can end up in China’s food supply chain if improperly disposed of, despite laws
against the practice.
Samples of the dead pigs have tested positive for porcine circovirus, a common swine disease that does not
affect humans.
Riddle of 1,000 dead ducks found dumped in Chinese river
(one week after 16,000 dead pigs were found)
The carcasses were fished out of the Nanhe river in Sichun
It has triggered more concern about the safety of China's drinking water
Last week thousands of dead pigs were found in Shanghai's main waterway
Environmental workers said almost all of the dead pigs had been removed
By Mail Foreign Service
PUBLISHED: 20:22 EST, 25 March 2013 | UPDATED: 08:55 EST, 26 March 2013
At least 1,000 dead ducks have been found floating in a
Chinese river, just days after the bodies of more than 16,000 pigs were pulled out of Shanghai’s main waterway.
The new discovery has triggered more concern over the safety of the nation’s drinking water.
The duck carcasses were fished out of the Nanhe river in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, officials
confirmed.
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At least 1,000 dead ducks were found floating in the Nanhe river in southwestern China
At least 1,000 dead ducks were found floating in the Nanhe river in southwestern China
It has not yet been established what killed the ducks, which were disinfected and buried in plastic bags
It has not yet been established what killed the ducks, which were disinfected and buried in plastic bags
They were found in over 50 woven bags but the bodies were so badly decomposed it was impossible to tell how they
died.
The news came as Shanghai environmental workers said almost all of the dead pigs had been removed from the
Huangpu river, which supplies 22% of the city’s drinking water.
Government officials said 98 pigs were recovered on Sunday
and 93 on Saturday, the first time the daily toll had fallen below a hundred in days.
Images over the last fortnight of dead hogs in China’s commercial hub has proved a major embarrassment to the
city, which is seeking to grow as an international financial centre.
Samples have tested positive for porcine circovirus, a common swine disease that does not affect humans.
It was unclear last night what killed the ducks. Their bodies were disinfected and buried in plastic bags three
metres underground, said Liang Weidong, a deputy director in Pengshan’s publicity department.
More than 1,000 dead ducks found in Chinese river More
than 16,000 dead pigs have been pulled out of the main waterway in Shanghai
Samples have tested positive for porcine circovirus, a common swine disease that does not affect humans
Samples have tested positive for porcine circovirus, a common swine disease that does not affect humans
He said the authorities were first made aware of the ducks a week ago but insisted the dead birds had been
handled safely and posed no danger to residents or livestock.
An initial investigation suggested they originated from upstream and were not dumped by local farmers. The Nanhe
river is not a source of drinking water.
Mystery remains over the exact origin of both the dead hogs and ducks.
‘Dead pigs, dead ducks... this soup is getting thicker and thicker,' wrote one person with the username Baby
Luck on weibo, China’s version of Twitter.
‘The dead pigs haven’t even disappeared yet, and now the dead ducks emerge - does this society enjoy being
competitive?” wrote netizen sugarandsweet.
Alex Jones looks at the trending slump in McDonalds
sales and how the franchise hopes to revive their sub-food business model with their LeBron James led casino gulag
styled Monopoly Game.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 total number Shanghai had removed from the river, which supplies 22 percent
of the city’s drinking water, had reached 10,924 as of Sunday afternoon.
More than 1,000 dead ducks found in Chinese river
