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Q: How can I make sure the food I buy can be cleansed of all the pollutants in the soil and air here?
Also, are there any home tests I can conduct to find the compounds and impurities in my water and food?
Trust the healing power of the human body. you'll be fine.
'You gotta die of something.....' Malone in 'Untouchables'
icnif77:
Sorry, but that's what you're asking, it's impossible. Maybe 'starve' would be solution.
buying vegetables, fruits from green houses only would help, but i dont know how you could guarantee where they came from, given the lack of honesty in the society here.
Stiggs:
I don't think even that would help much, the greenhouse would still be built on soil which is what the veges are grown in. If that soil is full of heavy metals, well.....
ambivalentmace:
yes, if they change the soil and use a greenhouse to keep out acid rain pollutants, but you would never know if the statement was true, sad problem with no answer.
Trust the healing power of the human body. you'll be fine.
You can't do much about it, short of growing your own food, with dirt and water from a trusted source. Doable in some places, harder in cities if you don't a courtyard with good sun exposure.
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You've lived in New Zealand most of your life. Your body has banked a whole bunch of goodness in that time. You are probably in need of some pollutants and heavy metals. Maybe you just need a nice tall glass of harden the fuck up?
Produce your own.. That is the only way to make sure...
ScotsAlan:
Depends on where you live. Many places in China are toxic without polution. Arsnic, for example, is found in the groundwater in many places. It was not put there. Its just there.
You can trust that the farmers have used plenty of pesticides and antibiotics.
Fully imported foods?
DrMonkey:
There's an Italian restaurant (Mamamia, next to Jin Ji lake, Li Gong Di area) where they claim doing so, even for the water ! It's a bit pricey, but it's good, taste like back in Europe...
Buy preserved imported vegetables from foreign owned supermarkets (Taste, Metro, ...) same thing for meat buy Australian beef or Norwegian salmon for e.g.
It's more expensive but as the saying goes you get what you pay for. I rather pay more for safe food than having to spend a hundred thousand euro the day I get some serious health issues from polluted food. I know a guy who thought he was smart buying the cheapest food available in China, then he got a cancer at the age of 35, of course that cheap ass had no health insurance, he had to go back home and sell his house, car and everything else to pay for the treatment.
jetfire9000:
That sounds really scary. And what was the "cheapest food" available to him? Where I am, there's a Metro, but all of the vegetables appear to be the same perfect looking GMO which they use here. The only cache would be they may have been planted on better soil - however the price tag is sky high and Metro is a good hour away. I dunno', I think I'll make it a point to go check them out after reading this. Getting a few cleaner vegetables would probably do a bit good.
Anyway my little critique is that I'm not so sure you can completely attribute cancer to that one thing though - for the one guy you know, there's a lot who don't get that problem. And to add to the randomness, I can easily find stories in my front page news source about 15-20 year olds that got some type of cancer despite being so young. They definitely weren't in China either. So making a specific linkage like that is a bit problematic... But thanks for giving me my big scare for the day!
Eorthisio:
I can add that the man was often sick from food poisoning, sore throats and else even after spending 4 years in China. Anyway I agree with you, cancer can't be attributed to one thing only but you are what you eat, eat cheap crap and you are a crap. That guy used to buy his veggies and meat on the roadside, meat that often stays exposed to the sunlight (when there is sunlight) or all sorts of pollution particles (in the air, from the cars, ...) all day long. He also used to eat cheap snacks that you can find in every supermarkets (latiao, ...)
laowaigentleman:
I think it's those shitty snacks you describe which are most likely to have contributed. I buy pork from a roadside butcher, but the meat is kept in a fridge.
I'm moving soon, so I'll be buying all of my groceries from the supermarket.
I want to take all measures necessary to avoid getting cancer. I eat healthily, cook my own meals and exercise very regularly, but coming from NZ means that I'm used to taking for granted the quality of the food. Whenever I eat fruit here, I peel the skin off. Back home you can just rub an apple on your shirt and eat it. I wouldn't dream of doing that in China.
I only eat free-range vegans. They just taste better.
laowaigentleman:
Do you remember the Hellers Bacon commercial about the vegetarian who was left behind alone and she starts cooking some bacon, then her flatmate comes home so she throws the pan out the window and it hits him in the head?
It's about 5 years old now, I'd guess.
nzteacher80:
Yep. I used to get into trouble with vegetarian flat mates for cooking steak.
The problem of air pollution in China cannot be put only on the account of the food.
Virtually all air, water and soil are to certain extent polluted. Vegetable of any kinds will be probably polluted due to fertilizers if not by anything else, meat can be contaminated with antibiotics and with other pollutants which were part of their food.
If you followed last year Walmart scandal (and before McDonalds and KFC ones) so you may know you are not safe even with the foreign chains.
Air pollution indeed influences your life expectancy but the heaviest impact is on small children so as long as you are adult so the impact may not be 'sever' ,
If you are in China there is no escape from air pollution and with reasonable pre-cautions you can probably noticeably limit the consequences.
There are a lot of Chinese who are living up to late 80ies or even longer so the situation is not that deadly that the only chance is to run away.
Craving good eggs
I just sent about 80 eggs to Hong Kong ..small and fresh and delicious. (extreme packaging)
I just finished about 30 of them little things… ½ - 3/4 size normal and about half of them are double yolks.
I loved getting these things from the farm back home. The yolks are orange, not a pale yellow.
Health wise, I have no clue, but mentally, I appreciate the things. Straight from the farmer and the chicken.
I now know a place to get chickens and eggs and goats and pigs and even beef if I so desire. Fresh and as good as it gets in China I think. …. Who knows what he feeds them or what water they drink, but I can guarantee you, now that I know this guy…. I will supply the apples for a month for my next pig I get from him. Pre maid apple sauce….
I got some control, on what I get now...happy happy happy .... nice guy, to hell with the big market
