[T]he highly publicized contamination of U.S. chicken, pork and fish with tainted Chinese pet food ingredients and this week’s resumption of high-level economic and trade talks with China has activists and members of Congress demanding that the United States tell China it is fed up. (free registration is required)

Just as I was reading this Post article I turned to a Lou Dobb’s report about tainted Chinese seafood imports and so the confluence of events just made me want to comment. I have to say though, this is one case (the tainted seafood only) where I have to agree with my Chinese colleague who says that this is a perfect example of a growing anti-Chinese bias in some quarters of the US. While I am sure that there is some level of poor quality seafood entering in the US from China…I also think that a close inspection of US based seafood would find similar problems. I think the problem is not that China is trying to get one over on the US but rather that poor US inspection might be allowing a disproportionate amount slip into the country and thereby onto our tables. Moreover, having spent spent over a decade in China (and eating fish in the seafood capital of Dalian for most of that decade) I wonder just how bad Chinese seafood is?

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