Mm, fish! What a tasty and healthy alternative to meat. Too bad it's tainted, just like pet food, toothpaste, medicine, and god knows what other imports are making their way into our county from dear old China. I don't have a degree in politics but I really feel that America is so ass backwards. We're the greatest country in the world. We're smart, everyone's free, life is great, but we can't even brush our teeth or have dinner without the threat of being poisioned and dying. What is wrong with us? Are we so money hungry that we are willing to overlook our health just to save a few dollars? Of course we are. Why should we expect some child laborer in Malaysia to care if antifreeze gets dumped into pet food or not, or to even understand the ramifications of such an action? It's not even like we can just stop buying products made from China. EVERYTHING is made there; I can't imagine living in a house free from foreign trade. My car came off the boat from Japan, my computer was made by someone who probably doesn't even know where the United States is. Part of me wants to strangle all the Chinese people. How dare they? Don't they know how many lives they could potentially affect? But wait a minute. Why should they even care? It's our greedy businesses who are willing to compromise health and human rights so they can jet to their private islands during the winter months. We're the ones who can't get people in this country to make shoes or tennis racquets but whine when immigrants come here to make a living because they're taking our jobs. what a bunch of crap. Americans are too fat and lazy and it's no wonder we are being beaten at our own game. It's not like I don't consider myself lucky to live here, because I recognize that there are so many worse places to be than here, but I believe that we as a country feel that no other civilization can touch us and we've been riding on the coattails of success for way too long while ignoring the fact that other countries are racing to catch up to us, and doing a damn good job of it. Other people in other countries are just as smart as we are, if not smarter, and willing to work five times harder while we stand in line for a week waiting for the iPhone to be released. In fact, I went to the Apple Store today and there was a security guard making sure things at A COMPUTER STORE didn't get out of hand. It's not a problem to want nice things and plenty of people work hard for their money, but nothing lasts forever and our stint as the world's most powerful country could be in jeopardy. Nobody cares where our products are made as long as they are cheap and they work, but now all of a sudden we have to "buy American" when it's virtually impossible to do so. We're the bastard child of the globalization that Thomas Friedman has been hawking about, and now that we're getting beaten at our own game it isn't so nice. What's next after the war against terror? The war against cheap goods? How about throwing billions more at a problem which will never be alleviated, just like we're doing now? I don't believe it takes a room full of political theorists to realize that people in this country want what they want when they want it and for cheap, which is fine if we are willing to deal with a few dead dogs and cats here and there. Come to think of it, I'm sure my poodle lives a nicer life than people who made his dog food.