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Originally Posted by Daniel_
When was the last time that 1/4 of the world's population lived in the US?
You can't simply say 53,000 people became ill without considering how many millions used the formula in question.
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A valid point. However, my counterpoint to that, is this: Even if a country has a population of over a billion, it does not lessen the tragedy and the severity of nearly 53,000 members of that population becoming seriously ill from ingesting milk purposely tainted with an industrial chemical.
Or perhaps we should paraphrase Joseph Stalin, and say, "One person getting gravely ill from drinking tainted milk is a tragedy – but 53,000 people getting ill from that, is a statistic."
Whatever. China's population is, what, about four times that of the United States? Well, then... When was the last time the U.S. industrial food system manufactured a product that was so screwed up, intentionally or not, that it led to over 13,000 people (most of those, children) becoming ill, with more than 3,200 hospitalizations?
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Originally Posted by pan6467
I have often asked why we would trade with a country that hates us.
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Well, evidently China "hates" its own children.