On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:53:35 -0500, Swingman wrote:




Did you just miss the link I posted taking it clearly taking it out of
the realm of my _opinion_, or just ignore that, as Ed did?

I did not ignore it. Not everything from China is crap. Some is, some
it not.


An Ed did what by repeating the same thing over and over, in slightly
different ways, in the hopes that his obvious "opinion", with nothing
cited to back it up, would somehow become more relevant?

My opinion is backed up with my personal experiences.



A bit of _obvious_ tit for tat, to make a point is always in order ...
but does indeed go over some heads.

Yes, it's an opinion shared by many others. But Ed's
opinion fits a lot better with my experience.

And exactly how does that differ with:

"Sure there are few things that are done well, but that does NOT excuse
the absolute factual evidence that the state of Chinese products is
deplorable, even for use in China itself."

Which is not, as you indicate, "opinion".

Here's that cite again:

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/ref...ina/index.html



It tells a lot of stories of contaminated products from China. Yes,
there are many. There are still a lot happening in this country too.
Of course, it is wrong no matter where it comes from and it may be
worse from other countries. Even reputable companies like Johnson &
Johnson have had their plants shut down in recent months. Tons on
contaminated beef seems to come to light in the US every year too.

I won't mention Pink Slime again because you evidently see that as a
non-issue with the US food supply. Would you feel that way if the
Chinese used it in food shipped here?