Cadbury says Chinese-made chocolate have melamine

explains why cadbury's taste like plastic :laugh:

All joking aside, just another reason to quit putting our safety in the hands of others!

This is what's going to kill us. It's not going to be a nuclear bomb or global warming, it's going to be greed and lack of oversight. It's only a matter of time before some bizzaro virus gets spread to the global community through some food ingredient.

If you really want to scare yourself, do some research on the anti-freeze chemical that wound up in cough syrup.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/world/americas/06poison.html

This has been going on for a very long time and the international death toll could be enormous. It's not like some companies are trustworthy. Just looking at the country of origin is no solution either. Even if products are made in the US, you don't know where the raw materials came from. In other cases, the origin is deliberately obscured by doing the final assembly or packaging in a seemingly "safe" country just to get the 'made in' label.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92875207

The only hope I see here is... God, I can't believe I'm going to say this... lawyers. If some of these large corporations get sued enough, and are forced to pay high enough penalties (included criminal charges against executives) then maybe, they'll have a vested interest in making sure there products are pure.

I'm going on the cave-man diet. If I don't grow it, can it, hunt it or pick it, then I'm not going to eat it! This is going to be a lot of work, but at least I will know what comes out of the jar is exactly what I put into the jar. Now how do I make my own aspirin...